Alcohol abuse
Drunk Drivers, DWI "Drug Court" Treatment, and Recidivism: Who Fails?
Identification of Anhydroecgonine Ethyl Ester in the Urine of a Drug Overdose Victim
Shifting Importance of Alcohol and Marijuana as Gateway Substances Among Serious Drug Abusers
Risk Factors for Sexual Victimization of Women: Results From a Prospective Study
Alcohol, Fear, and Woman Abuse
Examination of Pathways From Childhood Victimization to Violence: The Role of Early Aggression and Problematic Alcohol Use
Relationships Between Adult Women's Alcohol Problems and Their Childhood Experiences of Parental Violence and Psychological Aggression
Longitudinal Study of the Relationships Among Alcohol Use, Marijuana/hashish use, Cocaine Use, and Emotional/Psychological Functioning Problems in a Cohort of High-Risk Youths
Partner Violence Among Young Adults
Do Better Wages Reduce Crime? - A Research Note
Substance Abuse, Employment, and Welfare Tenure
Stability of Alcohol Use and Teen Dating Violence for Female Youth: A Latent Transition Analysis
Role of Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Domestic Violence and Its Treatment: Dade County's Domestic Violence Court Experiment; Final Report
Risk Factors That Predict Dropout From Corrections-Based Treatment for Drug Abuse
Evaluation of Drug Treatment in Local Corrections: Research Preview
Impact of Childhood Abuse and Neglect on Adult Mental Health: A Prospective Study
Protecting Against Stress and Trauma - NIJ Research for the Real World Seminar
At this Research for the Real World seminar, NIJ brought together law enforcement practitioners and leading researchers in the field of stress to discuss the current research evidence and practical benefits of targeted stress-management interventions and how they can promote officer mental wellness.
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Protecting Against Stress & Trauma: Research Lessons for Law Enforcement - Audience Q&A
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Evaluating Reentry Programs Using Data and Science
NIJ Journal Issue No. 250
NIJ Journal Issue No. 249
Solutions in Corrections: Using Evidence-based Knowledge
Professor Ed Latessa describes how his team and he assessed more than 550 programs and saw the best and the worst. Professor Latessa shared his lessons learned and examples of states that are trying to use evidence-based knowledge to improve correctional programs.
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Changing the Behavior of Drug-Involved Offenders: Supervision That Works
A small number of those who commit crimes are heavily involved in drugs commit a large portion of the crime in this country. An evaluation of a "smart supervision" effort in Hawaii that uses swift and certain sanctioning showed that individuals committing crimes who are heavily involved in drug use can indeed change their behavior when the supervision is properly implemented.
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Children Exposed to Violence
Panelists will discuss the results of the recent Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's National Survey on Children's Exposure to Violence and findings from a seven-year follow-up study, funded by NIJ, on home visitation in New York. The survey's findings included startling figures: More than 60 percent of the children interviewed were exposed to violence, crime and abuse within the past year, and more than 1 in 10 were injured in an assault.