Criminal Law
FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence
Secretariat for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37, Biometrics
An Assessment of the Impact of a Multipronged Approach to Reducing Problematic Pain Clinics in Florida
Trafficking in Meaning: Law, Victims, and the State
Catching the Cyber Crook
Technology '70s Style: NIJ in the Forefront of Body Armor Research and Development
Three Strikes and You're Out: Are Repeat Offender Laws Having Their Anticipated Effects?
Police Crime: The Criminal Behavior of Sworn Law Enforcement Officers
'Insider' Justice - Defense Attorneys and the Handling of Felony Cases
Impact of California Firearms Sales Laws and Dealer Regulations on the Illegal Diversion of Guns
ALASKA'S BAN ON PLEA BARGAINING
Fostering Innovation Across the U.S. Criminal System: Identifying Opportunities to Improve Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Fairness
National Institute of Justice: Strengthening Science and Advancing Justice
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The Impact of Constitutional Carry Legislation on Urban Violence, Arrests, and Police-Citizen Encounters
The Mobilization Puzzle: How Individual, Group, and Situational Dynamics Produce Extremist Outcomes
Tribal Justice, Tribal Court: Strengthening Tribal Justice Systems Using Restorative Approaches
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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Why Is the United States the Most Homicidal Nation in the Affluent World?
Ohio State University Since World War II, the homicide rate in the U.S. has been three to ten times higher than in Canada, Western Europe, and Japan. This, however, has not always been the case. What caused the dramatic change? Dr. Roth discussed how and why rates of different kinds of homicide have varied across time and space over the past 450 years, including an examination of the murder of children by parents or caregivers, intimate partner violence, and homicides among unrelated adults.
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Criminal Justice Needs
How Collaboration Between Researchers and Police Chiefs Can Improve the Quality of Sexual Assault Investigations: A Look at Los Angeles
Panelists discuss the application of research findings from an NIJ-sponsored study of sexual assault attrition to police practice in Los Angeles. There are three main focal points: (1) the mutual benefits of researcher/practitioner partnerships, (2) the implications of variation in police interpretation of UCR guidelines specific to clearing sexual assault (with an emphasis on cases involving nonstrangers), and (3) the content of specialized training that must be required for patrol officers and detectives who respond to and investigate sex crimes.
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Don't Jump the Shark: Understanding Deterrence and Legitimacy in the Architecture of Law Enforcement
Deterrence theory dominates the American understanding of how to regulate criminal behavior but social psychologists' research shows that people comply for reasons that have nothing to do with fear of punishment; they have to do with values, fair procedures and how people connect with one another. Professor Meares discussed the relevance of social psychologists' emerging theory to legal theory and practice and how deterrence and emerging social psychology theories intertwine.
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The State of the Police Field: A New Professionalism in Policing?
Panelists debate the premise of a Harvard Executive Session working paper that suggests police organizations are striving for a "new" professionalism. Leaders are endeavoring for stricter standards of efficiency and conduct, while also increasing their legitimacy to the public and encouraging innovation. Is this new? Will this idea lead to prematurely discarding community policing as a guiding philosophy?