Evaluation
The Impact of Gunshot Detection Technology on Gun Violence in Kansas City and Chicago: A Multi-Pronged Synthetic Control Evaluation
Using Technology to Facilitate Successful Reentry Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Web-Based Reentry Planning Tool
Evaluation of Safe Horizon Family Court Program
Police Stops, Crime Prevention, and Community Reaction: A Randomized Field Experiment at Violent Crime Hot Spots
Improving Juror Comprehension of Forensic Testimony and Its Effects on Decision-Making and Evidence Evaluation
Evaluation of Project Safe Neighborhoods
Confidence, Latency, and Accuracy in Eyewitness Identification Made from Show-Ups: Evidence from the Lab, the Field, and Current Law Enforcement Practices
Evaluation of Project Safe Neighborhoods
A Law Enforcement Pathway to Treatment: A Multi-Site Evaluation of Self-Referral Deflection Programs
Employing Evidence to Combat Everyday Tragedy
Evaluation of a Service Provision Program for Victims of Sex Trafficking
Evaluating Reentry Programs Using Data and Science
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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Evaluating Reentry Programs Using Data and Science
How do you use data and science to measure program success?
John Wetzel, secretary of corrections, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and Grant Duwe, Ph.D., director of research and evaluation, Minnesota Department of Corrections explain how their agencies evaluate programs using data and science. Duwe details how the most effective programs provided by the Minnesota DOC have been those that focus on known risk factors for recidivism.
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Improving Access to Services for Female Offenders Returning to the Community
Looking at the Impact on Policing of Body Worn Cameras
Building Healthy Teen Relationships: An Evaluation of a Dating Violence Prevention Program With Middle School Students
Crimesolutions: "What Works" in Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice and Crime Victim Services - Interview With Edward Latessa
Final Summary Overview: Impact Evaluation of No Bully System
Ballistic Body Armor: A Closer Look at the Follow-Up Inspection and Testing Program
NIJ Journal Issue No. 275
Effects of the Second Step Program in Middle School on Violence, Victimization, and Substance Use in High School
NIJ-funded researchers looked at the effect of the program on participants in their high school years.
Solutions in Corrections: Using Evidence-based Knowledge
Professor Ed Latessa describes how his team and he assessed more than 550 programs and saw the best and the worst. Professor Latessa shared his lessons learned and examples of states that are trying to use evidence-based knowledge to improve correctional programs.
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