Homicide victims
Project Safe Neighborhoods: Strategic Interventions-Eastern District of Missouri (Case Study 7)
Advancing Understanding, and Informing Prevention of Public Mass Shootings: Findings from NIJ Funded Studies, Part 1
In recent years, NIJ invested in several research projects to advance understanding and inform prevention of public mass shootings.
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Chicago Women's Health Risk Study, June 2000 (Part I and II)
Specialized Courtrooms: Does Speeding Up the Process Jeopardize the Quality of Justice?
Murder in Space City: Houston Homicide Re-Examined, Final Report & Project Summary
Problem-Solving Approaches to Homicide: An Evaluation of the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership
Exploring the Recent Surge in Youth Homicide Rates: Geographic Variations (From Nature of Homicide: Trends and Changes - Proceedings of the 1996 Meeting of the Homicide Research Working Group, Santa Monica, California, P 58-62, 1996, Pamela K Lattimore and Cynthia A Nahabedian, eds. - See NCJ- 16614
Relationship of Drugs, Drug Trafficking, and Drug Traffickers to Homicide
Risk Factors for Death or Life-Threatening Injury for Abused Women in Chicago (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See NCJ-199701)
Predictions Put Into Practice: a Quasi-experimental Evaluation of Chicago's Predictive Policing Pilot
Young Women and Gang Violence: Gender, Street Offending, and Violent Victimization in Gangs
News Value of African-American Victims: An Examination of the Media's Presentation of Homicide
Alcohol Use and Interpersonal Violence - Alcohol Detected in Homicide Victims
The Impact of State-Level Firearms Laws on Homicide Rates by Race/Ethnicity
Tale of Four Cities: Improving our Understanding of Gun Violence, Draft Final Summary Overview
Importance of Nonfatal Shooting Data To Inform Violence-Prevention Policy, Practice, and Research
NIJ Journal Issue No. 250
Don't Jump the Shark: Understanding Deterrence and Legitimacy in the Architecture of Law Enforcement
Deterrence theory dominates the American understanding of how to regulate criminal behavior but social psychologists' research shows that people comply for reasons that have nothing to do with fear of punishment; they have to do with values, fair procedures and how people connect with one another. Professor Meares discussed the relevance of social psychologists' emerging theory to legal theory and practice and how deterrence and emerging social psychology theories intertwine.
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Homicide in the United States
The 2009 NIJ Conference kicked off with a blue-ribbon panel of leaders with expertise in urban issues as they relate to homicide. These experts will discuss promising approaches that have resulted in reduced violence and community empowerment.
An Examination of Justice Reinvestment and Its Impact on Two States
Funded in part by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Pew Center on the States, the justice reinvestment project is a data-driven strategy aimed at policymakers to "reduce spending on corrections, increase public safety and improve conditions in the neighborhoods to which most people released from prison return." Representatives from two states where the justice reinvestment strategy is currently being implemented will discuss how it is being used to reduce the rate of incarceration and how states can reinvest in local communities.
Is It Old Age, Abuse or Homicide? Using Forensic Markers and Technology to Detect Elder Abuse and Neglect
Panelists will present results from NIJ-funded studies on bruising and CT scanning and discuss the important role of forensic information and technology in effectively investigating violent crimes against the elderly.