Indigent Defense and Access to Justice
Event Dates
Location
Online
Event Type
Classroom
Registration Status
Not Required
Defense services
Evaluating the Effect of Holistic Indigent Defense Services on Case Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in the Bronx
2013-IJ-CX-0027
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2013
$334,998
Measuring the Effect of Defense Counsel on Homicide Case Outcomes
Date Published
December 2012
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Measuring the Effect of Defense Counsel on Homicide Case Outcomes, Executive Summary
Date Published
December 2012
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Waiver of Counsel in Juvenile Court
2012-R2-CX-0008
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2012
$510,953
Examining the Effectiveness of Indigent Defense Team Services: A Multisite Evaluation of Holistic Defense in Practice
2012-R2-CX-0011
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2012
$628,000
The Role of Indigent Defense for Defendants with Mental Health Disorders
2012-R2-CX-0009
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2012
$485,625
DNA for the Defense Bar
Date Published
June 2012
Publication Type
Instructional Material
Agencies
NIJ
Preliminary Study of How Plea Bargaining Decisions by Prosecution and Defense Attorneys Are Affected by Eyewitness Factors, Executive Summary
Date Published
March 2012
Publication Type
Report (Summary),
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Preliminary Study of How Plea Bargaining Decisions by Prosecution and Defense Attorneys Are Affected by Eyewitness Factors
Date Published
March 2012
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
NIJ FY 12 Evaluation of the Office for Victims of Crime Wraparound Victim Legal Assistance Network Demonstration Project
Closing Date
NIJ seeks proposals to evaluate the first phase of the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)
Wraparound Victim Legal Assistance Network Demonstration Project (seewww.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/grants/pdftxt/FY2012_WraparoundVictimLegalAssistance.pdf).
The OVC Wraparound Victim Legal Assistance Network Project will fund up to six demonstration sites to develop holistic models for wraparound pro bono legal assistance networks that offer the wide range of legal assistance that victims need in the wake of...
NIJ FY 12 Social Science Research on Indigent Defense
Closing Date
NIJ seeks proposals for funding to examine indigent criminal defense services, policies, and practices. This includes services provided by any of the following: State-funded, county-funded, city-funded, or tribal public defender's offices; contract indigent defense lawyers; court-appointed counsel for indigent defendants; and/or, pro bono services provided by criminal defense attorneys. These services can be at the pretrial, trial, post-conviction, and/or appellate stages and involve either juvenile...
Forensic Science Training for California Indigent Defense Attorneys -- Using the NAS Report in Litigation
2010-DN-BX-K259
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2010
$250,000
The Effects of Defense Counsel on the Outcomes of Homicide
and Death Penalty Prosecutions
2009-IJ-CX-0013
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2009
$149,898
Improving the Adjudication Process - A Compendium of Research Sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, 1969-1984
Date Published
January 1985
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
2008 Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program
2008-DN-BX-K169
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2008
$500,000
Post-Conviction DNA Testing
Date Published
April 2006
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Speech to the National Association of State Forensic Mental Health Directors
The Mentally Ill Offender: Viewing Crime
and Justice Through a Different Lens
INTRODUCTION
Thank you for the kind invitation to address this conference of the National Association of State Mental Health Forensic Directors. Several months ago, I readily accepted Judy Cox's invitation to speak to you. At the time, it seemed like a pretty straightforward proposition -- I enjoy opportunities to speak with people who...
Principles of Forensic DNA for Officers of the Court
Location
Online
Event Type
Course
Registration Status
Not Required
Implementation and Impact of Indigent Defense Standards, December 2003
Date Published
December 2003
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Prosecution Strategies in Domestic Violence Felonies: Anticipating and Meeting Defense Claims, Final Report
Date Published
1998
Series
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Public Defenders in the Neighborhood: A Harlem Law Office Stresses Teamwork, Early Investigation
Date Published
March 1997
Series
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ