Improving a Database To Help Identify a Vehicle by Using Paint Fragments
Date Published
May 2017
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Law enforcement
Understanding the Effects of Fatigue on Law Enforcement
May 2017
Steven James (Assistant Research Professor, Washington State University, College of Medicine) and Lois James (Assistant Professor, Washington State University, College of Nursing) discuss research on how fatigue and sleep deprivation affect officers when they make critical decisions to use deadly force. The researchers also discuss how often law enforcement officers are fatigued, the impacts of officer fatigue and drowsy driving, and the goal of implementing positive changes.
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How Best Protect Your Force Against Officer Suicide
May 2017
John Violanti, Research Professor at Buffalo, discusses the importance of making police departments aware that officer suicide is a problem. According to Violanti, police officers have a significantly higher rate of suicide than the general public. Reasons for this higher risk include the accumulative effects of trauma and stress.
Violanti describes steps police agencies are taking to help police officers, including teaching recruits what they may experience on the job.
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Improving Officer Safety in Interactions With Citizens Suffering From Mental Illness
May 2017
Cara Altimus, former ASSS Fellow with NIJ, discusses the importance of law enforcement and first responders understanding mental illness, its causes, and how it affects the brain. She speaks about the correlation between drug addiction and mental illness. Altimus also addresses establishing procedures and systems so that police officers and first responders can safely and successfully interact with individuals with drug addiction and/or mental illness.
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TECHBeat, April 2017
Date Published
April 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Predicting Intimate Partner Violence for At-Risk Young Adults and Their Romantic Partners
Date Published
December 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Description
Uniting to Solve Sexual Assault Crimes
Date Published
March 2017
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Criminal Protective Orders as a Critical Strategy To Reduce Domestic Violence, Final Summary Overview
Date Published
March 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Evaluation of a Novel Fluorescent Dye To Detect Ano-genital Injury in Women of Color
Date Published
March 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Evaluation
Criminal Protective Orders as a Critical Strategy To Reduce Domestic Violence, Researcher-Practitioner Partnership Summary
Date Published
February 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
How Law Enforcement Can Harness the Benefits of an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Program
Date Published
December 2016
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Legislation/Policy Analysis,
Issue Overview
Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for Law Enforcement
Date Published
September 2013
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Handbook
Development of an Analytical System for the Forensic Comparison and Identification of Fiber Dyes on Casework-Sized Fibers
Date Published
February 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Description
Quantitative Algorithm for the Digital Comparison of Torn Duct
Date Published
March 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Description
Developing Reliable Methods for Microbial Fingerprinting of Soils
Date Published
March 2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Description
TECHBeat, March 2017
Journal
Techbeat
Date Published
March 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Description,
Issue Overview
Uniting to Solve Sexual Assault Crimes
Date Published
March 27, 2017
With support from the National Institute of Justice, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the state of Nevada teamed up to reduce the backlog of untested sexual assault kits.
Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) Analyses of Paper, Inks, and Soils
Date Published
January 2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Description
Gunshot Residue in a Non-Firearm Detainee Population
Date Published
January 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Description
Development of a Mobile, Automated Tool Mark Characterization/Comparison System
Date Published
February 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Evaluation
Differential Sampling of Footwear To Separate Relevant Evidentiary Particles From Background Noise
Date Published
February 2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Description
Applied Research, Development, and Method Validation for a Statistically Based Comparison of Tool Marks Using GelSight-Based Three Dimensional Imaging and Novel Comparison Algorithms for Firearm Forensics
Date Published
March 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Description
Forensic Optical Topography: Landscape Study
Date Published
December 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Best Practice/State-of-the-Art Review