Incentivized Informants and Wrongful Convictions: Understanding the Risks and Mitigating the Effects
15PNIJ-24-GK-03091-MUMU
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$1,133,976
Jury instructions
Jury Deliberations of Child Witnesses with Autism Spectrum Disorder
15PNIJ-24-GG-01572-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$180,000
Improving Juror Assessments of Forensic Testimony and Its Effects on Decision-Making and Evidence Evaluation
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
The subtle effects of implicit bias instructions
Date Published
2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
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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Toward Understandable Jury Instructions
Date Published
1982
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Social Inference Processes in Juror Judgments of Multiple-Offense Trials
Date Published
1984
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Jury in the Twenty-first Century: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Date Published
2001
Publication Type
Conference Material
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Uncertainty Ahead - A Shift in How Federal Scientific Experts Can Testify
Date Published
February 2018
Series
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Legislation/Policy Analysis,
Issue Overview,
Instructional Material
Agencies
NIJ
Can Jury Instructions Have an Impact on Trial Outcomes
2017-IJ-CX-0044
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$489,085
Indicators of Sex Trafficking in Online Escort Ads
2017-MU-CX-0005
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$597,532
Using and Presenting Digital Evidence in the Courtroom: Mock Trial (DVD)
Date Published
February 2008
Publication Type
Technical Assistance
Agencies
NIJ
Are Hung Juries a Problem?
Date Published
September 2002
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Are Hung Juries a Problem? Executive Summary
Date Published
September 2002
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored