Law enforcement
Forensic Use of GPR and LiDAR Technology for Clandestine Grave Detection
Examining Financial Fraud Against Older Adults
Webinar Transcript: NIJ FY 24 Evaluation on Desistance
NIJ hosted a webinar providing an overview of the NIJ FY 24 Evaluation on Desistance Solicitation, in which NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous evaluations of desistance-focused interventions to advance understanding of strategies that might aid in the desistance process and identify innovative approaches to measure the desistance process.
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Us Versus Them? The Problem of Cognitive Distortions in Policing
Learning about ShotSpotter — and Gun Violence — from Chicago
Prevalence of Fentanyl and Its Analogues in a Court-Ordered Mandatory Drug Testing Population
Optimizing the Use of Video Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes
Webinar Transcript: FY 2024 NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Deadline notice
The deadline to submit an application under the solicitation discussed below has passed.
NIJ held a webinar on February 14, 2024, gave an overview of NIJ’s Graduate Research Fellowship opportunity, which invites applications for doctoral dissertation research that is relevant to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration...
The Problem with Criminal Records: Discrepancies between State Reports and Private-sector Background Checks
ICPUTRD: Image Cloud Platform for Use in Tagging and Research on Decomposition
Multidisciplinary Teams, Street Outreach, and Gang Intervention: Mixed Methods Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Denver
Is It an Accident or Abuse? Researchers Develop Predictive Models for Pediatric Head Injuries
Is It an Accident or Abuse? Researchers Develop Predictive Models for Pediatric Head Injuries
NIJ-supported research has enabled biomechanical experts to improve predictive models of head injuries in children, helping physicians and law enforcement to better distinguish between accidental injury and abuse.
Interactive Map: Medicolegal Death Investigation Data Flow
Attitudes of Reporting Officers Extracted From Incident Reports Can Affect Rape Case Outcomes
Attitudes of Reporting Officers Extracted From Incident Reports Can Affect Rape Case Outcomes
Social scientists and data scientists use a powerful machine learning algorithm to conduct a novel criminal justice process study.
What’s Known and Unknown About Marijuana (Part Two)
NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation of Policing Practices
Development of Portable Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Nanosensors for Ultrasensitive Characterization of Drugs in Human Biofluids
Advances in Detecting and Identifying Explosives After an Attack
Two NIJ-funded studies examine new ways to analyze trace evidence in the aftermath of an explosion or bombing.