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For decades, America's chief answer to crime has been to put more persons behind bars for longer. That expensive strategy is yielding diminishing returns. It's time for a closer look at ways of helping individuals steer away from crime.
New research offers hope for extending the timeline for collecting samples suitable for DNA profiling in sexual assault cases.
Hot spot policing drills down to the micro-level.
NIJ's forthcoming special report, The Road Ahead: Unanalyzed Evidence in Sexual Assault Cases, looks into ways to move sexual assault kits forward.
