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FY 2022 Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement for the Committee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies

Date Published

August 2024

Publication Type

Report (Annual/Periodic)

Agencies

NIJ

FY23 OJP Correctional Education Evaluation Package

Date Published

August 2024

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ

Method to the Madness: Tracking and Interviewing Respondents in a Longitudinal Study of Prisoner Reentry

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Structural Discrimination and Social Stigma Among Individuals Incarcerated for Sexual Offenses: Reentry Across the Rural-Urban Continuum

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Defensible Decisions: Balancing Employer and Prospective Employee Rights in an Era of Criminal Background Checks

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Home Visits in Community Supervision: A Qualitative Analysis of Theme and Tone

Date Published

2017

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Criminal Background Checks and Recidivism: Bounding the Causal Impact

Date Published

October 2017

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Assessing the Relationship Between Police Use of Force and Inmate Offending (Rule Violations)

Date Published

November 2017

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Redemption Research and Offender Employability

Date Published

October 2014

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

How Likely Are Ex-Offenders To Get a Job Offer?

Date Published

June 2014

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Prison Officer Legitimacy, Their Exercise of Power, and Inmate Rule Breaking

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Effects of Age at Prison Release on Women's Desistance Trajectories: a Mixed-Method Analysis

Date Published

2016

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Research on the Mounting Problem of Correctional Officer Stress

Emerging Relevance of Neuroscience in Corrections

National Institute of Justice Literature Review and Data Analysis on Deaths in Custody, Report to Congress

Date Published

December 2022

Publication Type

Report (Annual/Periodic)

Agencies

NIJ

Getting the Most Out of Research Partnerships

Children of the Incarcerated Must Be Studied, and Responded to, Comprehensively

Date Published

June 2010

Publication Type

Issue Overview, Instructional Material

Agencies

NIJ

NIJ's Technology Assistance For Corrections

Date Published

August 2009

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Technical), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ

Building Knowledge on Female Offenders

Date Published

February 2001

Publication Type

Issue Overview, Instructional Material

Agencies

NIJ

NIJ Seeks to Strengthen the Practitioner-Researcher Bond

Date Published

August 2009

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ

"There's a Lot in Those Keys Isn't There?" The Experience of a Female Researcher Researching Rape in a Male Prison Undertaking the Research as a Key Holder (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 769-778, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-

Date Published

September 2004

Publication Type

Case Study

Agencies

NIJ

Internet as a Technology and Information Resource: The Corrections Practitioner's Guide to 'Surfing the 'Net'

Date Published

1998

Agencies

NIJ

NIC (National Institute of Corrections) on Restorative Justice

Date Published

1997

Publication Type

Historical Overview

Agencies

NIJ

Taking Stock: An Overview of NIJ's Reentry Research Portfolio and Assessing the Impact of the Pandemic on Reentry Research

April 2022

Over several decades, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has made significant contributions to the field of reentry, specifically what works for whom and when. In recent years, however, the global pandemic has made it increasingly difficult to conduct research on and with populations involved with the justice system. During this time, many researchers assessing various justice-related outcomes were unable to continue their inquiries as planned due to a lack of access to their populations of interest, forcing many to pivot and rethink their research designs.

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Desistance: It’s a Process, Not an Event

April 2022

Series

Justice Today Podcast

Desistance is the process of individuals ceasing engagement in criminal activity. It may sound simple but it is quite complex, and the more we understand it, the better equipped we are to help accelerate the process before people are incarcerated or once they leave prison or jail. NIJ Journal Editor Beth Pearsall hosts a conversation on this topic with Senior Social Science Analyst Marie Garcia, Senior Advisor Ben Adams, and Social Science Research Analyst Kaitlyn Sill.