Court studies
The trouble with Harman and Lorandos’s attempted refutation of the Meier et al. Family court study
Community Court Grows in Brooklyn: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Red Hook Community Justice Center, Final Report
Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Child Custody Decision-making among Intimate Partner Violence Families
Assessing the Impact of Statutory Change: A Statewide Multilevel Analysis of Restitution Orders in Pennsylvania
Why So Fast, Why So Slow? - Explaining Case Processing Time
Decade of Drug Treatment Court Research
Specialized Domestic Violence Court in South Carolina: An Example of Procedural Justice for Victims and Defendants
Estimating the Population at Risk for Violence During Child Visitation
Outcomes of Custody and Visitation Petitions When Fathers are Restrained by Protection Orders: The Case of the New York Family Courts
Societal Cost of the Exclusionary Rule: An Empirical Assessment
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, Executive Highlights
Analyzing Court Delay-Reduction Programs - Why Do Some Succeed?
Rural Misdemeanor Court Management - A Study in One Court's Exercise of Greater Case Control
Everyday Hassles: Barriers to Recovery in Drug Court
Results From the Brooklyn Domestic Violence Treatment Experiment (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See NCJ-199701)
Decision To Incarcerate in Juvenile and Criminal Courts
Civil Protection Order Enforcement
T.K. Logan discusses her study that looked at the impact of civil protective orders for domestic violence victims in five Kentucky jurisdictions. Civil protective orders, sometimes known as restraining orders, may cover various situations, such as ordering an assailant to avoid a victim's home and workplace or forbidding any contact with the victim, including by mail or telephone.
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Discussing the Future of Justice-Involved Young Adults
New science in brain development is transforming young adult involvement with the justice system. On Tuesday, September 8, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Assistant Attorney General Karol Mason, and experts from NIJ and the Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice who serve on the Executive Session on Community Corrections discussed the future of justice-involved young adults.
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Domestic Violence Research 15 Years After VAWA
Since the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, a majority of the more than 250 research and evaluation studies funded by NIJ examined domestic violence issues. This research has been collected in the Compendium of Research on Violence Against Women, which includes an abstract of each grant and the results of completed studies.