Criminal courts

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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Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate Assessment and Evidence Interpretation

2019-DU-BX-4011

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Funding First Awarded

2020

$495,056

Adjudication and Sentencing in a Misdemeanor Court - The Outcome Is the Punishment

Date Published

1981

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Going to Court: The Experience of Child Victims of Intrafamilial Sexual Abuse

Date Published

1988

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

National Assessment of Criminal Court Use of Defendants' Juvenile Adjudication Records

Date Published

1996

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Motivation and Mechanisms in the Cycle of Violence

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Road Not Taken - The Elusive Path to Criminal Prosecution for White-Collar Offenders

Date Published

1985

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Does It Pay To Plead Guilty? Differential Sentencing and the Functioning of Criminal Courts

Date Published

1982

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Keeping Pace - Court Resources and Crime in Ten U.S. Cities

Date Published

1982

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Double Your Trouble: Dual Arrest in Family Violence

Date Published

1997

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Diversion of Felony Arrests - An Experiment in Pretrial Intervention - An Evaluation of the Court Employment Project - Summary Report

Date Published

1981

Agencies

NIJ

Decision To Incarcerate in Juvenile and Criminal Courts

Date Published

December 2006

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Prosecuting Adolescents in Criminal Courts: Criminal or Juvenile Justice?

Date Published

August 2003

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Why So Fast, Why So Slow? - Explaining Case Processing Time

Date Published

1986

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class on Court Decisionmaking: Looking Toward the 21st Century

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Literature Review

Agencies

NIJ

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

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)

Date Published

2004

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Societal Cost of the Exclusionary Rule: An Empirical Assessment

Date Published

1983

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Criminal Careers of Serious Delinquents in Two Cities

Date Published

July 2004

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored, OJJDP-Sponsored

Juvenile Justice Reform in New York State - The Juvenile Offender Law

Date Published

1986

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Criminalizing Delinquency: The Deterrent Effects of the New York Juvenile Offender Law

Date Published

1988

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Punishing Youth Homicide Offenders in Philadelphia

Date Published

1981

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Impact of Community Policing on the Criminal Justice System

Date Published

1995

Publication Type

Survey

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Theft/Violence Ratio in Antebellum Boston

Date Published

1991

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships: Evaluation of Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies for Domestic Violence, Final Report

Date Published

2001

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored