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The Campbell Collaboration Social, Psychological, Criminological and Educational Trials Register (C2-SPECTR)
C2-SPECTR contains over 10,000 citations to randomized or possibly randomized trials relevant to the social sciences.
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(also published in Evaluation Research in Education volume 14, 2000). - Search C2-SPECTR
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- ASC Journal "Criminology" (abstracts) 1980-present
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- Behavioral Sciences and the Law 1996-current
- Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice v. 39 (1997)-current
- Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 1986-current
- Center for Sex Offender Management (USO) documents database
- EDC's National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention virtual library
- Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database
- Harvard Family Research Project database of "afterschool program" evaluations
- Human Services Research Institute (HRSI) publications catalog
- Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority reports
- Index to graduate theses in UK and Ireland
- International Centre for Crime Prevention publications (Montreal)
- Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1981-current
- JRSA Journal, Justice Research & Policy, 1999-current
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) database
- National Youth Development Information Center Library database
- PAVNET database on US federally funded violence-related research
- PsiTri database of randomized and controlled trials in mental health
- PubMed, from the National Library of Medicine
- SafetyLit: the online source for injury prevention literature
- UK National Health Service NRR (National Research Register)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) full text documents
- US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) database on housing and community development
- US National Institute of Health Prevention communication research database
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