NCJ Number
91524
Date Published
1983
Length
245 pages
Annotation
The National Criminal Justice Thesaurus contains listings of descriptors or terms used to index literature in the National Institute of Justice/National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) document data base and to retrieve information about the literature for users of the service.
Abstract
Term selection is based on the vocabulary used in documents entering the NCJRS system, on the frequency of term usage in the literature, and on the language of the user community. The 5-digit number assigned to each term is used as a descriptor code in searching on that term. Substantive descriptors include broader terms, narrower terms, and related terms. The introduction to the Thesaurus defines these terms, as well as array terms, and explains how to use the Thesaurus. This edition contains 5,012 descriptors (postable and nonpostable) and 24,461 cross-references. (Author summary modified)