Criminal courts
Does It Pay To Plead Guilty? Differential Sentencing and the Functioning of Criminal Courts
Keeping Pace - Court Resources and Crime in Ten U.S. Cities
Prosecuting Adolescents in Criminal Courts: Criminal or Juvenile Justice?
Specialized Domestic Violence Court in South Carolina: An Example of Procedural Justice for Victims and Defendants
Results From the Brooklyn Domestic Violence Treatment Experiment (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See NCJ-199701)
Criminal Careers of Serious Delinquents in Two Cities
Why So Fast, Why So Slow? - Explaining Case Processing Time
Criminalizing Delinquency: The Deterrent Effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law
Societal Cost of the Exclusionary Rule: An Empirical Assessment
NIJ Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships: Evaluation of Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies for Domestic Violence, Final Report
Evaluating and Quantifying the Specific Deterrent Effects of DNA Databases
Juvenile Justice Reform in New York State - The Juvenile Offender Law
Criminology - Criminal Courts and Bureaucratic Justice Concessions and Consensus in the Guilty Plea Process
Punishing Youth Homicide Offenders in Philadelphia
Impact of Community Policing on the Criminal Justice System
Theft/Violence Ratio in Antebellum Boston
The Known Unknown: Research Needed To Plug Knowledge Gaps on Impact of Court Telepresence Technology
Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate Assessment and Evidence Interpretation
Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better: Lessons from Community Courts
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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Custody Evaluation in Domestic Violence Cases
Panelists will examine practices, beliefs and recommendations of professional and custody evaluators in domestic violence cases. Panelists will discuss current NIJ studies that use both qualitative and quantitative methods to assess the impact of personal attitudes and beliefs on custody evaluation.