{{Short description|US government program}} The '''National Criminal Justice Reference Service''' ('''NCJRS''') is a federally sponsored program that shares publications and other information including grants and funding opportunities and upcoming trainings and conferences from the United States Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) agencies and National Institute of Corrections (NIC). NCJRS also maintains a criminal justice library and serves as a resource for law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies.
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. NCJRS hosts one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world, the NCJRS Abstracts Database.{{cn|date=March 2021}}
It publishes reports on such matters as the use of body cameras by police,<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.law.com/therecorder/2020/12/02/reimagining-criminal-justice-a-new-system-is-required-for-police-accountability/?slreturn=20210217113732 |journal=The Recorder |title=Reimagining Criminal Justice: A New System Is Required for Police Accountability |first=Thomas |last=Johnson |date=December 2, 2020 |accessdate=March 17, 2021}}</ref> the relatively high placement of ethnic minorities in detention facilities,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2020/08/25/policing-criminalization-kids-america/ |publisher=Cronkite News |title='A disjointed system': Policing policies fuel criminalization of youth |first1=Kimberly |last1=Rapanut |first2=Brody |last2=Ford |first3=Morgan |last3=Wallace |first4=Kelsey |last4=Collesi |first5=Jeff |last5=Uveino |date=August 25, 2020 |accessdate=March 17, 2021}}</ref> online safety and the sexual exploitation of children,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/11/24/kid-online-safety-myths/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |title=4 myths about online safety that parents should know |first=Danielle |last=Braf |date=November 24, 2020 |accessdate=March 17, 2021}}</ref> and human trafficking.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/opinion/2021/02/28/commentary-fighting-human-trafficking-a-cause-that-should-transcend-politics/333907007/ |newspaper=The Oklahoman |date=February 28, 2021 |title=Commentary: Fighting human trafficking: A cause that should transcend politics |first=Chad F. |last=Wolf |accessdate=March 17, 2021}}</ref>
==See also== *List of academic databases and search engines
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website|https://www.ncjrs.gov/}}
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Category:Criminal justice Category:United States Department of Justice Category:Bibliographic databases and indexes Category:Online law databases Category:Government databases in the United States
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