Community organizations
It's Getting Crazy Out There: Can a Civil Gang Injunction Change a Community
Residency Restrictions: What's Geography Got to Do with It?
Crime Prevention-International Experiences
Use of Civil Remedies for Neighborhood Crime and Drug Abatement by Community Organizations
Assessing the Relationship Between Police-Community Coproduction and Neighborhood-Level Social Capital
Faith-Based Programs Give Facilities a Helping Hand
Increasing the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Rural Police Departments
Using Maps of Home Foreclosures to Understand National and Local Problems
Eastside Substance Abuse Awareness Program Evaluation
Opportunities and Challenges Abound as Prison Populations Decrease
Community Responses to Drug Abuse National Demonstration Program: A Process Evaluation Summary
What Can We Learn From Public Health? - An Example of Sharing Law Enforcement Spatial Data With Community Partners
Crime Prevention Through Neighborhood Revitalization: Does Practice Reflect Theory?
Policing Violence Against Minority Women in Multicultural Societies: "Community" and the Politics of Exclusion
Social Ecological Correlates of Polyvictimization among a National Sample of Transgender, Genderqueer, and Cisgender Sexual Minority Adolescents
Researcher-Survivor-Ally Evaluation of the Mayor's Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking, Final Summary Report
Neighborhood Crime Survey: An Examination of the Relationship Between Immigration and Victimization
Alternative Sentencing Policies for Drug Offenders - Panel at the 2009 NIJ Conference
Nurse-Family Partnerships: From Trials to International Replication
David Olds, founder of the Nurse-Family Partnership Program, describes the programs long-term impact on mothers and babies who began participating in the program more than 19 years ago. The Nurse-Family Partnership maternal health program introduces vulnerable first-time parents to maternal and child health nurses. It allows nurses to deliver the support first-time moms need to have a healthy pregnancy, become knowledgeable and responsible parents, and provide their babies and later children and young adults with the best possible start in life.
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Don't Jump the Shark: Understanding Deterrence and Legitimacy in the Architecture of Law Enforcement
Deterrence theory dominates the American understanding of how to regulate criminal behavior but social psychologists' research shows that people comply for reasons that have nothing to do with fear of punishment; they have to do with values, fair procedures and how people connect with one another. Professor Meares discussed the relevance of social psychologists' emerging theory to legal theory and practice and how deterrence and emerging social psychology theories intertwine.
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Homicide in the United States
The 2009 NIJ Conference kicked off with a blue-ribbon panel of leaders with expertise in urban issues as they relate to homicide. These experts will discuss promising approaches that have resulted in reduced violence and community empowerment.
Alternative Sentencing Policies for Drug Offenders
The panel presentations from the 2009 NIJ Conference are based on an NIJ-sponsored evaluation of the effectiveness of Kansas Senate Bill 123, which mandates community-based drug abuse treatment for drug possession by nonviolent offenders in lieu of prison.
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.