Alcohol abuse
Assessing the Therapeutic Environment in Hybrid Models of Treatment: Prisoner Perceptions of Staff
Longitudinal Association Between Alcohol Use And Intimate Partner Violence Among Ethnically Diverse Community Women
Childhood Victimization and Alcohol Symptoms in Females: Causal Inferences and Hypothesized Mediators
Family Influences on Female Offenders' Substance Use: The Role of Adverse Childhood Events among Incarcerated Women
Problem Behaviours in Abused and Neglected Children Grown Up: Prevalence and Co-Occurrence of Substance Abuse, Crime and Violence
A Disaster Waiting To Happen
Effect of Children's Presence On Alcohol Use By Spouse Abusers and Their Victims
Alcohol Abuse as a Risk Factor for and Consequence of Child Abuse
Impact of the Opportunity to Succeed Program on Employment Success
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
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.