Reports are in many ways similar to books.  They are lengthy works which focus on one issue or topic and they are usually prepared by a government organization or private research organization.  Reports can be found in three ways:

• Through Minerva, our library's catalog, where there are a large number of government reports (WorldCat database also provides references to reports from libraries worldwide)
• Through NCJRS Abstracts Database which includes reports published in the criminal justice field primarily from  U.S. federal, state and local government or under contract to them.  Many NCJRS reports are available online in pdf or html format.  Our library also owns many of  these reports in print. Additional reports can be found in Criminal Justice abstracts.
• Through Internet sites.  Some publishers of reports will make them available on their web pages.