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Assessing the Attractiveness and Vulnerability of Eco-Terrorism Targets: A Situational Crime Prevention Approach

Date Published

June 2015

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Parent-Child Aggression, Adult-Partner Violence, and Child Outcomes: A Prospective, Population-based Study

Date Published

June 2017

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Treatment Modality, Failure, and Re-Arrest: A Test of the Risk Principle With Substance-Abusing Criminal Defendants

Date Published

July 2016

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

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

Date Published

January 2016

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Development of Vermont Assessment of Sex Offender Risk-2 (VASOR-2) Reoffense Risk Scale

Date Published

June 2014

Publication Type

Test/Measurement, Report (Technical), Report (Grant Sponsored)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Narratives of Childhood Adversity and Adolescent Misconduct as Precursors to Violent Extremism - A Life-Course Criminological Approach

Date Published

July 2016

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Utility of the Static-99 and Static-99R With Latino Sex Offenders

Date Published

December 2015

Publication Type

Test/Measurement, Report (Technical), Report (Grant Sponsored)

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Measurement of Repeat Effects in Chicago's Criminal Social Network

Date Published

July 2016

Publication Type

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

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Relationship Between Re-Incarceration and Their Own Childhood Foster Care Experience of Women

Date Published

March 2016

Publication Type

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

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Second-Generation Prisoners and the Transmission of Domestic Violence

Date Published

February 2016

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Metropolitan Local Crime Clusters: Structural Concentration Effects and the Systemic Model

Date Published

June 2015

Publication Type

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

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Relationship Between Self-Control and Police Misconduct: A Multi-Agency Study of First-Line Police Supervisors

Date Published

July 2016

Publication Type

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

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Probation Intensity, Self-Reported Offending, and Psychopathy in Juveniles on Probation for Serious Offenses

Date Published

June 2015

Publication Type

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

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Parsing Apart the Persisters: Etiological Mechanisms and Criminal Offense Patterns of Moderate- and High-level Persistent Offenders

Date Published

August 2017

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Going Home (or Not): How Residential Change Might Help Former Offenders Stay Out of Prison - NIJ Research for the Real World Seminar

Date Published

October 2011

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Presentation (Multimedia), Conference Material

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NIJ

The "Real World" of Dating Violence in Adolescence and Young Adulthood - A Longitudinal Portrait

Date Published

September 2014

Publication Type

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

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NIJ

Pathways Between Child Maltreatment and Adult Criminal Involvement

Date Published

October 2017

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ

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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The First Step Act of 2018: Risk and Needs Assessment System

Date Published

July 2019

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Program/Project Description, Legislation/Policy Description

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NIJ

Stakeholder Statements Submitted in Response to NIJs First Step Act Listening Sessions

Date Published

July 2019

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Legislation/Policy Analysis, Instructional Material

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NIJ

Person or Place? A Contextual, Event History Analysis of Homicide Victimization Risk

Date Published

May 2019

Publication Type

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

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Pathways to Desistance

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

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

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Innovative Research Partnerships: Building a Risk Assessment Tool for the N.H. Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services

Date Published

January 2012

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Evaluation of the Implementation of the Sex Offender Treatment Intervention and Progress Scale (SOTIPS)

Date Published

May 2018

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion in the Forensic Sciences

Date Published

March 8, 2018

To strengthen the forensic sciences, we must engage people from a broad array of scientific disciplines and backgrounds to help provide innovative solutions to complex criminal justice issues.