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FY 2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants program
Base:Decrease in the Latent Print Backlog and Increase Efficiency in Controlled Substance and Firearms Analyses
Competitive: Enhanc

2010-CD-BX-0017

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2010

$282,229

Evaluating Gun Violence as an Illicit Supply-and-Demand Marketplace

Date Published

May 28, 2010

Gun Violence Prevention Strategies: Action Research

Date Published

May 18, 2010

Detecting Buried Firearms Using Multiple Geophysical Technologies

Date Published

January 2009

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

CeaseFire: A Public Health Approach to Reduce Shootings and Killings

Date Published

October 28, 2009

Strategies that address serious health threats can also reduce violent crime.

REPEATABILITY AND UNIQUENESS OF STRIATIONS/IMPRESSIONS IN FIRED CARTRIDGE CASINGS FIRED IN 10 CONSECUTIVELY MANUFACTURED SLIDES

2009-DN-BX-K230

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2009

$17,127

Consecutive & Random Manufactured Semi-Automatic Pistol Breech Face & Fired Cartridge Case Evaluations

2009-DN-BX-K168

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2009

$703,091

Firearms and Medical Examiner Services

2009-CD-BX-0076

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2009

$155,848

Firearms Section Capacity Enhancement Project

2009-CD-BX-0051

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2009

$106,307

Gun Violence Programs: Project Safe Neighborhoods

Date Published

June 11, 2009

Illegal Gun Markets

Date Published

May 31, 2009

Strategies for Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets: A Case Study of Los Angeles

Accreditation of the Firearms/IBIS Unit

2008-CD-BX-0068

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2008

$41,716

Tactics That Can Reduce Gun Violence

Date Published

June 30, 2008

Gun Ownership

Date Published

June 29, 2008

Gun Recovery Strategies

Date Published

June 29, 2008

Gun Violence Programs: Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI)

Date Published

June 5, 2008

Gun Violence Prevention

Date Published

June 24, 2008

Gun Violence Programs: Operation Ceasefire

Date Published

June 24, 2008

Why Do Some Youth Become Violent and Carry Firearms?

Gun Violence Programs: Directed Police Patrols

Date Published

May 31, 2008

Criminal Purchase of Firearm Ammunition

Date Published

May 31, 2008

Crime Gun Risk Factors: Buyer, Seller, Firearm, and Transaction Characteristics Associated with Gun Trafficking and Criminal Gun Use

Date Published

2007

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Reducing Violent Crime and Firearms Violence: The Indianapolis Lever-Pulling Experiment

Date Published

December 2007

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms, Research in Brief

Date Published

1997

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Speech to the New York University Alumni Association "Crime Statistics -- Good News or Bad News?"

Thank you.

I would like to talk to you about youth violence. Youth violence is one of those issues that generates overheated debate. Some commentators warn that we are facing a "bloodbath" as the next birth cohort enters the crime-prone years. Some describe a generation of remorseless "superpredators" unlike any young criminals we have seen before. On the other end of the spectrum, commentators of...