State courts
Problem-Solving Courts: Fighting Crime by Treating the Offender
Using Physician Behavioral Big Data for High Precision Fraud Prediction and Detections
Understanding Prosecutorial Discretion in Florida Criminal Courts
Criminal Justice Testing and Evaluation Consortium
Risk and Rehabilitation: Supporting the Work of Probation Officers in the Community Reentry of Extremist Offenders
Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence
Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence
FY 2019 Prosecuting Cold Cases using DNA and Other Forensic Technologies
Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate Assessment and Evidence Interpretation
Prevalence of Fentanyl and Its Analogues in a Court-Ordered Mandatory Drug Testing Population
Neighborhood Crime Survey: An Examination of the Relationship Between Immigration and Victimization
Evaluation of Safe Horizon Family Court Program
A Law Enforcement Pathway to Treatment: A Multi-Site Evaluation of Self-Referral Deflection Programs
Improving Juror Comprehension of Forensic Testimony and Its Effects on Decision-Making and Evidence Evaluation
Confidence, Latency, and Accuracy in Eyewitness Identification Made from Show-Ups: Evidence from the Lab, the Field, and Current Law Enforcement Practices
Prosecuting Cases of Elder Abuse
This panel will feature NIJ-funded research that has direct, practical implications for the prosecution of elder abuse cases. Panelists will present findings from a study of prosecutors in three states that examined the factors that influenced their decisions to prosecute elder financial abuse cases. The panel will also provide the results from an evaluation of five innovative court-based models that target perpetrators of elder abuse.
Custody Evaluation in Domestic Violence Cases
Panelists will examine practices, beliefs and recommendations of professional and custody evaluators in domestic violence cases. Panelists will discuss current NIJ studies that use both qualitative and quantitative methods to assess the impact of personal attitudes and beliefs on custody evaluation.
What Works in Offender Supervision
This NIJ Conference Panel highlights findings from NIJ projects that evaluated strategies to enhance the supervision of offenders in the community. Researchers discuss the effectiveness of fair, swift and certain sanctions for high-risk probationers in the Hawaii HOPE program. Panelists also provide empirical evidence on the effectiveness of electronic monitoring — including the use of GPS tracking — for medium- and high-risk offenders on supervision and upon completion of their supervision sentence.