Civil justice
The Hidden Costs of Reentry: Understanding the Barriers to Removing a Criminal Record
NIJ hosted a webinar to discuss under-researched aspects of reentry: expungement of criminal records and the impact of those records. This webinar includes a presentation of ongoing research projects examining the impact of legal aid for expungement and past research projects studying the accuracy and permanency of criminal records and the prevalence of collateral consequences of conviction. A Q&A session will conclude this webinar.
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What is the role of firearms in nonfatal intimate partner violence? Findings from civil protective order case data
Intimate partner violence (IPV) and family dispute resolution: A randomized controlled trial comparing shuttle mediation, videoconferencing mediation, and litigation
Preparing Mediators to Mediate Cases Reporting High IPV in a Randomized Controlled Trial: The Importance of a Mediation Manual, Training, and Consultation
Firearm Removal, Judicial Decision-Making, and Domestic Violence Protection Orders
Redemption Research and Offender Employability
Civil Justice Survey of State Courts (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
The Civil Justice Survey of State Courts (CJSSC) provided a broad, systematic investigation of the nature of civil litigation (i.e., tort, contract, and real property cases) disposed of in a sample of state general jurisdiction courts. Data collected includes information about the types of civil cases litigated at trial, types of plaintiffs and defendants, trial winners, amount of total damages awarded, amount of punitive damages...
Theft/Violence Ratio in Antebellum Boston
For the Sake of the Neighborhood?: Civil Gang Injunction as a Gang Intervention Tool in Southern California (From Policing Gangs and Youth Violence, P 239-266, 2003, Scott H. Decker, ed. -- See NCJ-201783)
Caught in the Act
Everyday Hassles: Barriers to Recovery in Drug Court
Civil Protection Orders: The Benefits and Limitations for Victims of Domestic Violence, Final Report
Role of Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Domestic Violence and Its Treatment: Dade County's Domestic Violence Court Experiment; Final Report
Use of Civil Remedies for Neighborhood Crime and Drug Abatement by Community Organizations
Restorative Policing Experiment: The Bethlehem Pennsylvania Police Family Group Conferencing Project
Juvenile Detention: The Philadelphia Alternative
Personnel System Identifies Commendable Actions and Problematic Trends
Analysis of Mediation Agreements of Families Reporting Specific Types of Intimate Partner Abuse
Restorative Policing Experiment
NIJ Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships: Evaluation of Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies for Domestic Violence, Final Report
The Known Unknown: Research Needed To Plug Knowledge Gaps on Impact of Court Telepresence Technology
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Provides Access to Funding, Publications
White Collar Crime
The subprime mortgage industry collapse has led to a record number of foreclosures. In this environment, the interest mortgage fraud has risen, along with questions of how fraud contributed to the crisis. Henry Pontell and Sally Simpson discuss what they have learned about investigating and prosecuting white-collar criminals, the role of corporate ethics in America, and what policymakers and lawyers can learn from evidence of fraud.
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State Responses to Mass Incarceration
Researchers have devoted considerable attention to mass incarceration, specifically its magnitude, costs, and collateral consequences. In the face of economic constraints, strategies to reduce correctional populations while maintaining public safety are becoming a fiscal necessity. This panel will present strategies that states have undertaken to reduce incarceration rates while balancing taxpayer costs with ensuring public safety.
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