Protecting Against Stress & Trauma: Research Lessons for Law Enforcement – Next Steps
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Reentry Discussion: Overcoming Challenges When Leaving Incarceration
Alix McLearen, Ph.D., acting assistant director, Reentry Services Division, Federal Bureau of Prisons and John Wetzel, secretary of corrections, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections discuss programs and services that their agencies offer to help individuals overcome the challenges encountered when leaving incarceration. These various programs and services address the individuals’ needs in areas such as physical and mental health, addiction, education, vocation, and life skills.
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An International View of Civil Disturbance Unit Standards and Training
This video provides and international perspective on civil disturbance units.
Dr. Ben Burger, Chief, Unterstützungskommando, Dachau, Germany, discusses how his unit’s response to civil disturbances compares to his American counterparts and the approaches that contribute to his unit’s success.
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Evaluating Reentry Programs Using Data and Science
How do you use data and science to measure program success?
John Wetzel, secretary of corrections, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and Grant Duwe, Ph.D., director of research and evaluation, Minnesota Department of Corrections explain how their agencies evaluate programs using data and science. Duwe details how the most effective programs provided by the Minnesota DOC have been those that focus on known risk factors for recidivism.
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Research and Law Enforcement Partnerships Manage Civil Disturbances More Effectively
Law enforcement agencies can use research-based practices to manage protests and civil disturbances more effectively. In this video, Dr. Tamara Herold, Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Ryan Lee, Assistant Chief, Portland Police Bureau, discuss some of those methods, some of the misconceptions about how law enforcement should respond to civil disturbances, and where agencies should begin when developing civil disturbance response plans.
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Recent Changes in Corrections and Reentry: Thoughts from Two Leaders in the Field
What changes are you seeing in corrections and reentry?
Terri McDonald, chief probation officer, Los Angeles County Probation Department and John Wetzel, secretary of corrections, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections talk about recent changes in corrections and reentry. Wetzel elaborates on what the Pennsylvania DOC is facilitating with housing and how it individualizes its reentry programs. McDonald remarks on Los Angeles County’s systems approach to reentry and the idea of treating the whole person.
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NIJ Civil Disturbance Unit Standards: The Importance of Standards and Testing
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Sex Offender Residency Restrictions: Implementation and Impact
Numerous states and hundreds of municipalities have laws restricting the location of a convicted sex offender's residence. Little is known about the effectiveness of these restrictions. Do they keep children safer or give a false sense of safety? Some people suggest these laws are driven by media attention to a few cases. Others believe they are not grounded in research.
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The Importance and Impact of Cold Case Units
Practitioners from across the criminal justice system speak to the importance of cold case units and the impact they can have.
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The Impact of National Institute of Justice’s Solving Cold Cases with DNA Program
Practitioners from across the criminal justice system speak to the impact of NIJ's Solving Cold Cases with DNA grant program.
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Protecting Against Stress and Trauma - NIJ Research for the Real World Seminar
At this Research for the Real World seminar, NIJ brought together law enforcement practitioners and leading researchers in the field of stress to discuss the current research evidence and practical benefits of targeted stress-management interventions and how they can promote officer mental wellness.
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Opioid Crisis: NIJ Resources for First Responders
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Understanding the Opioid Crisis Case-by-Case: Overdose Fatality Reviews in Wisconsin
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Two Police Chiefs Perspectives on the Opioid Crisis
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Opioid Crisis: Two Chiefs Discuss the Challenges, Changes, and Results in Their Jurisdictions
Dayton (Ohio) Police Chief Richard Biehl and Burlington (Vermont) Police Chief Brandon del Pozo discuss the challenges of introducing institutional change across all of the agencies necessary to address the opioid crisis. They also explain the changes that they have made in their jurisdictions and the outcomes of those changes.
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Policing Research: If you can't find it, do it
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Lecture on Genetic Drift
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Lecture on Estimation
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Lecture on Statistical Probabilities
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Lecture on Population Databases
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Lecture on Paternity Calculations
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Lecture on Random Mating
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Lecture on Determining the Genotype Frequency
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Lecture on Alleles with Low Frequencies
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Lecture on Confidence Intervals
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