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Court Appearances in Criminal Proceedings Through Telepresence: Identifying Research and Practice Needs to Preserve Fairness While Leveraging New Technology

NCJ Number

255086

Date Published

2020

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NIJ-Sponsored

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NIJ Identifying the Highest Priority Criminal Justice Needs

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Instructional Material (Programmed)

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The Impact of Neighborhood Status on Imprisonment for Firearm Offenses

NCJ Number

252451

Date Published

2016

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NIJ-Sponsored

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

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Confirmation Bias and Other Systemic Causes of Wrongful Convictions: A Sentinel Events Perspective

NCJ Number

254021

Date Published

2019

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NIJ-Sponsored

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

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Report of the Philadelphia Event Review Team: Commonwealth v. George Cortez

NCJ Number

256007

Date Published

April 2020

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NIJ-Sponsored

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Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Child Custody Decision-making among Intimate Partner Violence Families

NCJ Number

255926

Date Published

December 2020

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

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Expanding Research to Examine the Impacts of Forensic Science on the Criminal Justice System

December 2020

In 2004, the National Institute of Justice created the social science research on forensic sciences (SSRFS) research program to explore the impact of forensic sciences on the criminal justice system and the administration of justice. Much of the early research from the SSRFS program focused on DNA processing and the use of DNA in investigations and prosecutions.

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Domestic Violence Courts: What Are They and How Should We Manage Them?

NCJ Number

177403

Journal

Juvenile and Family Court Journal

Date Published

1999

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Let Specificity, Clarity, and Parsimony of Purpose Be Our Guide

NCJ Number

180117

Journal

Law & Policy

Date Published

1998

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

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Innovation and Discretion: The Drug Court as a People-Processing Institution

NCJ Number

220272

Journal

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Date Published

September 2007

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NIJ-Sponsored

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Victims Guide to the D.C. Criminal Justice System

NCJ Number

236954

Date Published

October 1991

Publication Type

Instructional Material

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Parental Drug Testing in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases: The Washington, D.C. Experience

NCJ Number

171630

Date Published

1995

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NIJ-Sponsored

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Survey

Regional and Cultural Utility of Conventional Batterer Counseling

NCJ Number

206487

Journal

Violence Against Women

Date Published

August 2004

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NIJ-Sponsored

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Report (Study/Research)

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Lifetime Probation in Arizona (From Managing Adult Sex Offenders: A Containment Approach, P 6.1-6.15, 1996, Kim English, Suzanne Pullen, and Linda Jones, eds. - See NCJ- 162392)

NCJ Number

162397

Date Published

1996

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

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Justice System Processing of Child Abuse and Neglect Cases: Final Report, Volume II

NCJ Number

173064

Date Published

1996

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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Prosecuting Adolescents in Criminal Courts: Criminal or Juvenile Justice?

NCJ Number

202275

Journal

Social Problems

Date Published

August 2003

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NIJ-Sponsored

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Report (Study/Research)

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Repeat Player Police Officers and Prosecutorial Charge Reduction Decisions: A Note

NCJ Number

123531

Journal

American Journal of Police

Date Published

1990

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Survey, Research (Applied/Empirical)

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PDF (Author Draft)

Probing the Limits of the Female Advantage in Criminal Processing: Pretrial Diversion of Drug Offenders in an Urban County

NCJ Number

185258

Journal

Justice System Journal

Date Published

2000

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NIJ-Sponsored

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Report (Study/Research)

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Prosecuting Intimate Partner Sexual Assault: Legal and Extra-Legal Factors That Influence Charging Decisions

NCJ Number

249619

Journal

Violence Against Women

Date Published

October 2015

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NIJ-Sponsored

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

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Specialized Felony Domestic Violence Courts: Lessons on Implementation and Impacts From the Kings County Experience (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See NCJ-199701)

NCJ Number

199723

Date Published

2004

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

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Measuring and Explaining Charge Bargaining

NCJ Number

218310

Journal

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Date Published

June 2007

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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Jury in the Twenty-first Century: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

NCJ Number

190644

Journal

Brooklyn Law Review

Date Published

2001

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Conference Material

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Prosecuting Child Abuse

NCJ Number

108931

Journal

Prosecutors Perspective

Date Published

1988

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Literature Review

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Thirty Years of Sentencing Reform: The Quest for a Racially Neutral Sentencing Process

NCJ Number

185535

Date Published

2000

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Historical Overview, Legislation/Policy Analysis

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Multilevel Analysis of Community Effects on Criminal Sentencing

NCJ Number

212720

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

December 2005

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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North Carolina's Determinate Sentencing Legislation

NCJ Number

96530

Journal

Judicature

Date Published

1984

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis