Juvenile justice
Webinar: NIJ Research Assistantship Program Informational Webinar
This recorded webinar, originally held September 28, 2023, provides information on NIJ’s Research Assistantship Program, which offers highly qualified doctoral students the opportunity to bring their expertise to NIJ to work across offices and program areas to obtain a practical and applied research experience. The program is a research focused professional development opportunity for doctoral students from all academic disciplines. NIJ...
Explaining Latinx Youth Delinquency: A Gendered Test of Latinx General Strain Theory
Are All Welcome? An Empirical Examination of Visitor Networks Among Incarcerated Youth
From School Halls to Shopping Malls: Multilevel Predictors of Police Contact In and Out of School
Toward a Developmental Model of Continuity and Change in PTSD Symptoms following Exposure to Traumatic and Adverse Experiences
Expert versus Youth Raters on Measuring Social and Therapeutic Climate in Secure Juvenile Placement
School climate and bullying bystander responses in middle and high school
Early parenthood for males and females with foster care experience: An exploratory study of predictive factors at entry to care during preadolescence
Patterns of Dating and Peer Aggression and Victimization Among Early Adolescents: Relations With Individual, Peer, and School Factors
The role of hopelessness and procedural justice on depressogenic outcomes in serious adolescent offenders
Second looks for youth: An implementation evaluation of resentencing models in five jurisdictions
Victimization of Sexual Minority Latinx Youth: Results From a National Survey
Validity of a Three-item Dating Abuse Victimization Screening Tool in a 11-21 Year Old Sample
A deep learning framework for finding illicit images/videos of children
Insights into turning points from the perspective of young people with out-of-home care experience: events, impact and facilitators of change
Shelby County Schools Comprehensive School Safety Initiative
An Assessment of Dual System Data and Practices Capacity across Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems
Caring Connections for Youth: Evaluation of a Countywide Pre-Arrest Diversion Initiative to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities
Reducing agency and social costs by keeping kids in school and out of the justice system: A cost-benefit analysis of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program
NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply – Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development: Social Development Sub-study (ABCD: SD)
NIJ is seeking an application for a sub-study that incorporates measures of delinquency and victimization at five sites of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. This program furthers the Department’s mission to provide objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and criminal justice, particularly at the State and local levels.
NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime
NIJ is seeking an application for funding to support the project—Life Course and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal Justice Involvement: Identifying Risks, the Search for Resilience, and the Impact of Rise in Opioid Misuse and the COVID-19 Pandemic. This project seeks to extend the existing data collection for the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS) and its intergenerational extension, the Rochester Intergenerational Study (RIGS).
Life-course and Intergenerational Effects of Crime and Criminal Justice Involvement: Identifying Risks and the Search for Resilience
De-escalation Training: What Works, Implementation Lessons, and Taking It to Scale; Plenary at the 2023 NIJ Research Conference
Police use of force, while infrequently used, is a tremendous concern to public safety in the United States when officers employ it excessively or inappropriately, causing injury or death and eroding public trust in law enforcement. This plenary from the 2023 NIJ Research Conference describes the Integrating, Communications, Assessment, and Tactics (ICAT) de-escalation training program developed by the Police Executive Research Forum to guide officers in defusing critical incidents.
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