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CRIMINAL JUSTICE ABSTRACTS

EBSCO Publishing, ebscohost.com/academic/criminal-justice-abstracts

CONTENT Criminal Justice Abstracts (CJA) from EBSCO Publishing provides indexing and abstracts for books, journals, dissertations, governmental and NGO reports, papers, and newsletters in the field of criminal justice and related subjects (such as criminal law, forensics, prisons, and history of crime). There are currently over 235,000 records in the file, with more than 270 scholarly journals indexed cover to cover. Content runs from 1912 to the present and is updated quarterly.

USABILITY The EBSCOhost interface is one of the most recognizable in the business--a basic Search box at screen center with links to Advanced Search, Visual Search, and Search History directly below it. The Advanced Search screen contains three search boxes accompanied by drop-down menus to Select a Field (to …