Community involvement
Using 911 Calls to Detect Terrorism Threats
Community Responses to Drug Abuse National Demonstration Program: A Process Evaluation Summary
Community Justice: A Conceptual Framework
Defending the Community: Results of a Citizen Survey on Coproduction and Community Policing (Video)
Neighborhood Drug Arrest Rates: Are They a Meaningful Indicator of Drug Activity? A Research Note
Collaborative Effort Toward Resolving Family Violence Against Women (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See NCJ-199701)
Street-Level Policing in Cincinnati: The Content of Community and Traditional Policing and the Perceptions of Policing Audiences
Community Courts and the Process of Accountability: Consensus and Conflict at the Red Hook Community Justice Center
Are You Really Doing Community Policing?
Citizen Reactions to Community Policing, Final Report
Willingness-To-Pay for Crime Control Programs
Project Safe Neighborhoods and Violent Crime Trends in US Cities: Assessing Violent Crime Impact
Evaluation of the Chicago Housing Authority's Anti-Drug Initiative: A Model of Comprehensive Crime Prevention in Public Housing
Community Police Officer Survey: A Street Level View
Imposition and Effects of Restitution in Four Pennsylvania Counties: Effects of Size of County and Specialized Collection Units
National Evaluation of the COPS Program: Ten Case Studies
Community Justice and a Vision of Collective Efficacy: The Case of Restorative Conferencing
Conflicting Values in Community Policing
TECHBeat, October 2018
NIJ Journal Issue No. 277
The State of the Police Field: A New Professionalism in Policing?
Panelists debate the premise of a Harvard Executive Session working paper that suggests police organizations are striving for a "new" professionalism. Leaders are endeavoring for stricter standards of efficiency and conduct, while also increasing their legitimacy to the public and encouraging innovation. Is this new? Will this idea lead to prematurely discarding community policing as a guiding philosophy?
Familial DNA Searching: Issues and Answers
Familial DNA searching is the practice of creating new investigative leads in cases where DNA evidence found at the scene of a crime strongly resembles that of an existing DNA profile but is not an exact match. Panelists will explain how the technology works, provide examples of successful convictions obtained through familial searches, and discuss the various misconceptions and concerns regarding this practice.
Gang Membership Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIJ collaborated on a book that focuses on promising principles for gang membership prevention. This NIJ Conference Panel discusses the risk and protective factors that influence gang membership as well as efforts to reduce such factors. Panelists also explored the direction of gang research for the future.
What Works in Probation and Parole
How can we prevent reoffending and reduce costs? Research points to a number of solutions. At the Tuesday plenary, Judge Steven Alm from Hawaii will describe his successes with hard-core drug offenders. “Swift and sure” is his motto. West Virginia Cabinet Secretary James W. Spears will discuss the issues from his state's perspective, and Adam Gelb, Director of the Pew Charitable Trust's Public Safety Performance Project, will lend a national overview.