Policing strategies
Prelude to Project Safe Neighborhoods: The Richmond, Virginia, Experience
Facilitators and Impediments to Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Risk-Based Policing Strategies Using Risk Terrain Modeling: Insights From a Multi-City Evaluation in the United States
A Typological Approach to Studying Policing
What Came First: the Police or the Incident? Bidirectional Relationships Between Police Actions and Police Incidents
Strategic Policing Philosophy and the Acquisition of Technology: Findings From a Nationally Representative Survey of Law Enforcement
Advancing Understanding, and Informing Prevention of Public Mass Shootings: Findings from NIJ Funded Studies, Part 2
In recent years, NIJ invested in several research projects to advance understanding and inform prevention of public mass shootings.
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Expanding Research to Examine the Impacts of Forensic Science on the Criminal Justice System
In 2004, the National Institute of Justice created the social science research on forensic sciences (SSRFS) research program to explore the impact of forensic sciences on the criminal justice system and the administration of justice. Much of the early research from the SSRFS program focused on DNA processing and the use of DNA in investigations and prosecutions.
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Effects of Marijuana Legalization on Law Enforcement and Crime: Final Report
Effects of Marijuana Legalization on Law Enforcement and Crime: Executive Summary
Geography and Public Safety: A Quarterly Bulletin of Applied Geography for the Study of Crime and Public Safety, Volume 2, Issue 4
How Do We Know It Works? Conducting a Rapid Research Police Experiment To Test the Effectiveness of Flashing Police Lights on Auto Crime
The Importance of Management in Evidence-Based Policing
Perspectives on Research and Evidence-Based Policing
Evidence-Based Practices and Strategies: Risk Terrain Modeling
Captain Baughman of the Kansas City (MO) Police Department answers the question “What is risk terrain modeling?” and explains how it differs from crime mapping, what resources his agency deploys at high risk areas, and the results he has seen form using risk terrain models.
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Reducing Traffic Fatalities – NIJ LEADS Scholar Spotlight
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National Institute of Justice, Annual Report 2017
NIJ's Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Civilians Program
New Civilian recipients selected!
The 2020 application period has closed and we have notified successful applicants. Meet the latest class.
National Institute of Justice's Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Programs
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NIJ LEADS Program Increases Research Capabilities of Law Enforcement Officers
This video, produced for IACPTV, provides an overview of the NIJ Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) program. NIJ LEADS Scholars from Dayton and Newark police departments provide an overview of the LEADS program as they describe their projects and experiences working in the program.
Hear from LEADS scholars Major Wendy Stiver, Dayton Police Department, and Captain Ivonne Roman, Newark Police Department.
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