Applied Research

Student Suspensions Have Negative Consequences, According to NYC Study

Date Published

November 2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ

The Impact of Incarceration on the Desistance Process Among Individuals Who Chronically Engage in Criminal Activity

Date Published

October 2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ

DNA recovery after sequential processing of latent fingerprints on copy paper

Date Published

September 2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Pathways to Desistance From Crime Among Juveniles and Adults: Applications to Criminal Justice Policy and Practice (Executive Summary)

Date Published

November 2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ

International Perspectives and Lessons Learned on Desistance (Executive Summary)

Date Published

November 2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ

International Perspectives and Lessons Learned on Desistance

Date Published

November 2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ

Desistance-Focused Criminal Justice Practice

Date Published

October 2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ

MS13 in the Americas: How the World’s Most Notorious Gang Defies Logic, Resists Destruction

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Issue Overview

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Assessing the Transnational Criminal Capacity of MS-13 in the U.S. and El Salvador

Date Published

January 2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Application of statistical design of experiments to assess pre-treatment parameters in forensic hair analysis for amphetamine

Date Published

August 2020

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Postmortem Distribution and Redistribution of Synthetic Cathinones

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Improving Estimates of the Postmortem Interval with Metagenomics and Metabolomics

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Microbial Clocks for Estimating the Postmortem Interval of Human Remains at Three Anthropological Research Facilities

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Evaluation of Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Aerial Remote Sensing with Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Forensic Crime-Scene Reconstruction

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ

Optimization of Ultrahigh-Speed Multiplex PCR for Forensic Analysis

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Optimizing Juvenile Assessment Performance

Date Published

December 2020

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored, OJJDP-Sponsored

Evaluation of 3D Virtual Comparison Microscopy for Firearm Forensics within the Crime Lab

Date Published

December 2020

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Differences in Cannabis Impairment and its Measurement Due to Route of Administration

Date Published

December 2020

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Rapid Differentiation of Epithelial Cell Types in Aged Biological Samples Using Autofluorescence and Morphological Signatures

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis

DJO-NIJ-19-RO-0002-1

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$649,938

Post-Blast Explosives Attribution

DJO-NIJ-19-RO-0002-2

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$599,738

Expanding Research to Examine the Impacts of Forensic Science on the Criminal Justice System

December 2020

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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