Promising Practices from the Court System’s COVID-19 Response: Ensuring Access To Justice While Protecting Public Health
Date Published
2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Court administrators
Role of Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Domestic Violence and Its Treatment: Dade County's Domestic Violence Court Experiment, Executive Highlights
Date Published
1996
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Specialized Domestic Violence Court in South Carolina: An Example of Procedural Justice for Victims and Defendants
Date Published
June 2007
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Justice System Processing of Child Abuse and Neglect Cases: Final Report, Volume II
Date Published
1996
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Analyzing Court Delay-Reduction Programs - Why Do Some Succeed?
Date Published
1981
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better: Lessons from Community Courts
April 2011
Series
Change doesn't come easy, particularly within an institution as large and complex as the criminal justice system. Greg Berman, Director of the Center for Court Innovation, offered lessons from several efforts to make reform stick in criminal justice settings. In particular, he focused on the development of community courts — experimental court projects that are attempting to reduce both crime and incarceration in dozens of cities across the U.S. and around the world.
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What Works in Offender Supervision
June 2009
This NIJ Conference Panel highlights findings from NIJ projects that evaluated strategies to enhance the supervision of offenders in the community. Researchers discuss the effectiveness of fair, swift and certain sanctions for high-risk probationers in the Hawaii HOPE program. Panelists also provide empirical evidence on the effectiveness of electronic monitoring — including the use of GPS tracking — for medium- and high-risk offenders on supervision and upon completion of their supervision sentence.
Fostering Innovation in the U.S. Court System: Identifying High-Priority Technology and Other Needs for Improving Court Operations and Outcomes
Date Published
January 2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Technical Assistance),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Organizational Efficiency and Early Disposition Programs in Federal Courts, Executive Summary
Date Published
December 2013
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Summary),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Measuring Success in Focused Deterrence
2013-IJ-CX-0056
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2013
$298,264
The Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation: Executive Summary
Date Published
November 2011
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Impact of Legal Representatives on Child Custody Decisions among Families with History of Intimate Partner Violence
2010-IJ-CX-0022
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2010
$844,297
Mosaic of Institutional Culture and Performance: Trial Courts as Organizations
Date Published
November 2005
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Cook County Target Abuser Call (TAC): An Evaluation of a Specialized Domestic Violence Court, Revised Executive Summary
Date Published
August 2003
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Violence Against Women: Synthesis of Research for Judges
Date Published
December 2000
Series
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
A Multi-site Assessment of Court-Focused Elder Abuse Initiatives
2007-IJ-CX-0107
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2007
$219,409
The Past, Present and Future of Juvenile Justice: Assessing the Policy Options
2005-IJ-CX-0039
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2005
$258,068
Increasing Our Understanding of the Recovery Process Through Drug Court Narratives, Executive Summary
Date Published
December 1999
Series
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project
Date Published
June 2002
Publication Type
Legislation/Policy Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Divorce Mediation and Domestic Violence
Date Published
1997
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Domestic Violence, Visitation and Custody Decisions in New York Family Courts, Executive Summary
Date Published
May 2002
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Response to Domestic Violence in a Pro-Active Court Setting - Final Report
Date Published
July 1999
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Response to Domestic Violence in a Pro-Active Court Setting: Executive Summary
Date Published
July 1999
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored