Crime causes

International Perspectives and Lessons Learned on Desistance

NCJ Number

301502

Date Published

November 2021

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

White Paper (PDF) | Executive Summary (HTML)

But What Does It Mean? Defining, Measuring, and Analyzing Desistance From Crime in Criminal Justice

NCJ Number

301498

Date Published

July 2021

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

White Paper (PDF) | Executive Summary (HTML)

Desistance From Crime: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice

NCJ Number

301497

Date Published

November 2021

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Issue Overview

PDF | HTML | Webinar: Desistance From Crime: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice… | Webinar Presentation (PDF)

Linking Childhood Trauma Exposure to Adolescent Justice Involvement: The Concept of Posttraumatic Risk-Seeking

NCJ Number

254320

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

HTML

Advancing Understanding, and Informing Prevention of Public Mass Shootings: Findings from NIJ Funded Studies, Part 2

November 2020

In recent years, NIJ invested in several research projects to advance understanding and inform prevention of public mass shootings.

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Just Science Podcast: Just Psychopathy and Criminal Behavior

NCJ Number

255671

Date Published

November 2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Interview, Instructional Material (Programmed)

HTML | iTunes (Audio) | Google Play Music (Audio)

Nature and Circumstances of Defensive Gun Use: A Content Analysis of Interpersonal Conflict Situations Involving Criminal Offenders

NCJ Number

194992

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

March 2002

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

HTML

Causes of Organized Crime: Do Criminals Organize Around Opportunities for Crime or Do Criminal Opportunities Create New Offenders?

NCJ Number

185857

Journal

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

Date Published

November 2000

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

HTML

Noble Cause: An Empirical Assessment

NCJ Number

217544

Journal

Journal of Criminal Justice

Date Published

January 2007

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

HTML

Hate Crime Workshop Proceedings, November 15, 2005

NCJ Number

244260

Date Published

November 2005

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Issue Overview

PDF

Participation in and Frequency of Delinquent Behavior: A Test for Structural Differences

NCJ Number

128143

Journal

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Date Published

1990

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Survey

Publisher abstract

Take My License n' All That Jive, I Can't See ... 35: Little Hope for the Future Encourages Offending Over Time

NCJ Number

249625

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

January 2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

HTML

Unintended Consequences of Being Stopped or Arrested: An Exploration of the Labeling Mechanisms Through Which Police Contact Leads to Subsequent Delinquency

NCJ Number

245326

Journal

Criminology

Date Published

October 2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

PDF | HTML

Shooting Alone: The Pre-Attack Experiences and Behaviors of US Solo Mass Murderers

NCJ Number

252187

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

2017

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

HTML

Assessing the Spatial-Temporal Relationship Between Disorder and Violence

NCJ Number

230226

Journal

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Date Published

March 2010

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

HTML

Ultimate Impacts of Sentencing Reforms and Speedy Trial Laws: A User's Guide to the Machine-Readable Files and Documentation and Codebook

NCJ Number

146214

Date Published

1991

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Comparative, Cross-Cultural Criminal Career Analysis

NCJ Number

249314

Journal

European Journal of Criminology

Date Published

July 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

HTML

Addicted Women and Crime

NCJ Number

106847

Journal

Criminology

Date Published

1987

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Survey (Cross-Cultural)

Publisher abstract

Risk and Protective Factors Related to Offending: Results From a Chinese Cohort Study

NCJ Number

241195

Journal

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

Date Published

2004

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

HTML

Russian Emigre Crime in the United States: Organized Crime or Crime That Is Organized?

NCJ Number

173238

Journal

Transnational Organized Crime

Date Published

1996

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Indexing of Interdisciplinary Literature on Crime, Violence, and Mental Disorder

NCJ Number

117100

Journal

Journal of Information Science

Date Published

1987

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Publisher abstract

Video: Evidence-Based Practices and Strategies: Risk Terrain Modeling

NCJ Number

254607

Date Published

March 2020

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Instructional Material (Programmed)

HTML | 00:03:27 YouTube (Video)

Case Deconstruction of Criminal Investigative Failures

NCJ Number

254340

Date Published

January 2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Summary), Report (Grant Sponsored), Report (Annual/Periodic), Program/Project Description

PDF

NIJ Journal Issue No. 276

NCJ Number

249218

Journal

NIJ Journal

Date Published

December 2015

Agencies

NIJ

Series

NIJ Journal

Publication Type

Collected Work

PDF | HTML

Less Prison, More Police, Less Crime: How Criminology Can Save the States from Bankruptcy

April 2010

Series

Research for the Real World

Professor Lawrence Sherman explains how policing can prevent far more crimes than prison per dollar spent. His analysis of the cost-effectiveness of prison compared to policing suggests that states can cut their total budgets for justice and reduce crime by reallocating their spending on crime: less prison, more police.

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