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National Criminal Justice Thesaurus - Descriptors for Indexing Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Information, January 1983 Edition

NCJ Number
88516
Date Published
1983
Length
361 pages
Annotation
The thesaurus contains listings of descriptors or terms used to index the literature in the National Institute of Justice/NCJRS document data base and to retrieve information about the literature for users of the service.
Abstract
Most terms include scope notes, which explain the specific use of a term in the NCJRS system. Organizational and geographic descriptors are included in separate sections. A Key-Word-Out-of-Context (KWOC) list is appended, which lists the significant words of all thesaurus terms alphabetically, followed by a listing of the terms containing that word.