NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Research Service (US)Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a United States federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. The NCJRS Abstracts Database is one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world, with holdings from the early 1970s to the present. This collection contains more than 225,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials. NCJRS services and resources are available to anyone interested in crime, victim assistance, and public safety including policymakers, practitioners, researchers, educators, community leaders, and the general public.