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NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in the Criminal Justice System

Closing Date

May 14, 2018

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding for multidisciplinary research projects addressing four topics: impact of fatigue and stress on officer performance; impact of occupational prestige and job satisfaction on officer stress resilience; enhancing strategies for officer interaction with mentally ill individuals; and reducing traffic-related officer fatalities and injuries through technology enhancement and policy.

Facilitators and Impediments to Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Risk-Based Policing Strategies Using Risk Terrain Modeling: Insights from a Multi-City Evaluation in the United States

Date Published

January 2018

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A Quantitative Assessment of Shoeprint Accidental Patterns with Implications Regarding Similarity, Frequency and Chance Association of Features

Date Published

May 2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

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NIJ-Sponsored

Injuries Associated with Police Use of Force

Date Published

March 2018

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NIJ-Sponsored

Evaluation of the Shreveport Predictive Policing Experiment, web article

Date Published

March 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Summary), Report (Study/Research), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

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NIJ

Creating a Framework for Criminal Justice Information Sharing

Date Published

March 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Summary), Program/Project Description

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NIJ

Creating a Framework for Criminal Justice Information Sharing

Date Published

March 6, 2018

The criminal justice community has invested significantly in developing information sharing standards, but it has not developed a comprehensive view of the information sharing process. NIJ-supported research shows how the justice system could benefit from

Creating a 3D Microbial and Chemical Snapshot of a Human Habitat

Date Published

February 2018

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NIJ-Sponsored

Just Science Podcast: Episode 32: 2018 IPTES: Just Fracture Matches

Date Published

February 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Interview, Instructional Material (Programmed)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Just Science Podcast: Episode 34: 2018 IPTES: Just Shoeprint Statistics

Date Published

February 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Interview, Instructional Material (Programmed)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Just Science Podcast: Episode 33: 2018 IPTES: Just a Juror's Perception

Date Published

February 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Interview

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NIJ-Sponsored

Distinguishing Between Structurally Similar Designer Drugs Using an Advanced Method of Chromatography

Date Published

February 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Program/Project Description

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NIJ

The National Institute of Justice's Evaluation of Second Chance Act Adult Reentry Courts: Lessons Learned About Reentry Court Program Implementation and Sustainability

Date Published

January 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

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NIJ-Sponsored

Reentry Court Research: Overview of Findings from the National Institute of Justice's Evaluation of Second Chance Act Adult Reentry Courts

Date Published

December 2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

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NIJ-Sponsored

Just Science Podcast: Episode 31: 2018 IPTES: Just Nature's Patterns

Date Published

February 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Interview, Instructional Material (Programmed), Case Study

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NIJ-Sponsored

What Criminal Justice Can Learn From Its Bad Outcomes

Date Published

February 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Issue Overview, Factsheet

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NIJ-Sponsored

New Software Improves Rigor of Latent Fingerprint Examination

Date Published

January 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Factsheet

Agencies

NIJ

Real Time Crime Forecasting Challenge: Post-Mortem Analysis Challenge Performance

Date Published

January 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Landscape Study of Alternate Light Sources

Date Published

January 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Reference Material, Instructional Material

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NIJ-Sponsored

Scalable High-Resolution Forecasting of Sparse Spatiotemporal Events With Kernel Methods: A Winning Solution to the NIJ "Real-Time Crime Forecasting Challenge"

Date Published

January 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

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NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ and DNA: Polymerase Technologies Addressing a Key Challenge for PCR-Based Forensic Tests

Date Published

April 2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Grants and Funding, Factsheet

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NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ and Synercon Technologies: Improving the Reliability of Forensic Data From Vehicle Data Records

Date Published

December 2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Measurement/Evaluation Device, Instructional Material, Grants and Funding, Factsheet

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NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ and CHORI: Collaboration With SoftGenetics and California Department of Justice - Customizing NextGENe Software for Forensic Applications

Date Published

April 2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Grants and Funding, Factsheet

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NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ and University of South Florida: Creating an International Databank of Skeletal Biomarkers for Human Identification

Date Published

September 2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Factsheet

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NIJ-Sponsored

From Binary Presumptive Assays to Probabilistic Assessments: Differentiation of Shooters From Non-shooters Using IMS, OGSR, Neural Networks, and Likelihood Ratios

Date Published

June 2016

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NIJ-Sponsored