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NIJ-funded research challenges some common assumptions about what motivates young people to engage in violent extremism.
Chat lines and text lines can be lifelines for victims of crime and trauma who need help.
NIJ-supported projects connect with tribal communities to plan future research.
This webinar features a discussion of previously published research on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 Booker decision - which effectively transformed the United States Sentencing Guidelines from a mandatory, to an advisory, system. The presentation will address selected research findings from the last 15 years. Individual participants will briefly review their previous research findings with particular attention paid to the analytic methods used.
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Research finds that school-initiated threat assessments are a good alternative to zero-tolerance policies for keeping students safe, but better data and assessment team resources are needed.
