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Hidden Consequences: The Impact of Incarceration on Dependent Children

Date Published

March 1, 2017

Children of incarcerated parents face profound and complex threats to their emotional, physical, educational, and financial well-being.

Written Policies for Responding to Children After a Parent or Caretaker Is Arrested

Date Published

September 2005

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Developmental Pathways of Teen Dating Violence in a High-Risk Sample

Date Published

June 2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Trauma Exposure, Ecological Factors, and Child Welfare Involvement as Predictors of Youth Crossover into the Juvenile Justice System

2016-MU-MU-0069

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$74,997

Link for Schools: A system to prevent violence and its adverse impacts

2016-CK-BX-0006

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$3,675,128

Stockholm Prize in Criminology - Interview With John Laub and Robert Sampson

Date Published

June 2011

Publication Type

Issue Overview, Interview, Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

Prospective Examination of Whether Childhood Sexual Abuse Predicts Subsequent Sexual Offending

Date Published

January 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Nurse-Family Partnerships: From Trials to International Replication - Interview With David Olds

Date Published

January 2010

Publication Type

Presentation (Multimedia), Issue Overview, Interview, Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

Changing Lives: Prevention and Intervention to Reduce Serious Offending

Date Published

August 2014

Series

OJJDP Justice Research Series

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Program/Project Description

Agencies

OJJDP, NIJ

Bulletin 1: From Juvenile Delinquency to Young Adult Offending (Study Group on the Transitions Between Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime)

Date Published

July 2013

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Process Evaluation of BJA''s Firearm Lock Distribution and Safe Storage Program

2015-FG-BX-K002

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$199,607

"We Have the Power To Stop the Violence": A Process Evaluation of Cuyahoga County's Defending Childhood Initiative

Date Published

June 2015

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Childhood Trauma and Its Effects: Implications for Police

Date Published

July 2015

Publication Type

Issue Overview, Instructional Material, Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

Through the NOVA Door: A Process Evaluation of Shelby County's Defending Childhood Initiative

Date Published

June 2015

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Protect, Heal, Thrive: Lessons Learned From the Defending Childhood Demonstration Program

Date Published

May 2015

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

"It's Not All Cupcakes and Lollipops": An Investigation of the Predictors and Effects of Prison Visitation for Children during Maternal and Paternal Incarceration

Date Published

May 2014

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Evaluating program enhancements for mentors working with children of prisoners

2014-JU-FX-0004

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$2,499,597

Do Race, Neglect, and Childhood Poverty Predict Physical Health in Adulthood? A Multilevel Prospective Analysis

Date Published

March 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Effects of Parental Imprisonment on Child Antisocial Behaviour and Mental Health: A Systematic Review

Date Published

September 2009

Publication Type

Literature Review

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Spatio-Temporal Assessment of Exposure to Neighborhood Violence

Date Published

May 2013

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Process and Outcome Evaluation of the 4-H Mentoring/Youth and Families with Promise (YFP) Program

Date Published

March 2012

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence: Gendered and Contextual Effects on Adolescent Interpersonal Violence, Drug Use, and Mental Health Outcomes

Date Published

July 2011

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

U.S. Attorney General's Defending Childhood Initiative: Formative Evaluation of the Phase I Demonstration Program

Date Published

November 2011

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Perspectives on Crime and Justice: 1999-2000 Lecture Series, Volume IV

Date Published

March 2001

Publication Type

Best Practice/State-of-the-Art Review

Agencies

NIJ

Custody Evaluations When There Are Allegations of Domestic Violence: Practices; Beliefs, and Recommendations of Professional Evaluators

Date Published

May 2011

Publication Type

Research Paper

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored