Community involvement
Working Together To Reduce Graffiti and Fear
Eastside Substance Abuse Awareness Program Evaluation
A Century of Changing Boundaries
Reconsidering Domestic Violence Recidivism: Conditioned Effects of Legal Controls by Individual and Aggregate Levels of Stake in Conformity
Neighborhood Collective Efficacy -- Does It Help Reduce Violence?
Community Policing in Chicago, Years Five and Six: An Interim Report, 1999
Incarceration and the Community: The Problem of Removing and Returning Offenders
Individual-Level Predictors of Community Aftercare Completion
Impact of Victim-Focused Outreach on Criminal Legal System Outcomes Following Police-Reported Intimate Partner Abuse
Resource Manual on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Police-Facilitated Restorative Conferencing: What the Data Show
Choosing a New Approach to AMBER Alerts
Institute for Community-Police Relations Offers Guidance, Assistance
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 Residents' Production of Order: The Effects of Collective Efficacy on Responses to Neighborhood Problems
Using 911 Calls to Detect Terrorism Threats
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.