Law enforcement

Protecting Against Stress and Trauma - NIJ Research for the Real World Seminar

July 2019

Series

At this Research for the Real World seminar, NIJ brought together law enforcement practitioners and leading researchers in the field of stress to discuss the current research evidence and practical benefits of targeted stress-management interventions and how they can promote officer mental wellness.

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National Institute of Justice, Annual Report 2017

Date Published

January 2020

Publication Type

Report (Annual/Periodic), Program/Project Description

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Notes from the Field: How Grantsmanship Can Help a Tribal Police Department

Date Published

January 2020

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Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in Criminal Justice System, Fiscal Year 2020

Closing Date

April 29, 2020

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding of multidisciplinary research projects addressing any of these five topics: (1) Resiliency and Recovery of Law Enforcement agencies from Singular, Extreme Traumatic Events; (2) Impact of Organizational Stressors on Officer Health and Wellness; (3) Effects of Pre-Career Interventions and Subsequent Reminders in Modulating Mental, Physical, and Social Responses to Stressors in Law Enforcement Officers; (4) Community Hostility...

Research and Evaluation on Policing, Fiscal Year 2020

Closing Date

April 13, 2020

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding for investigator-initiated, randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies of approaches to the challenges of policing in the United States that address the strategic priorities and objectives identified in NIJ’s Policing Strategic Research Plan, 2017-2022.

Reflecting on my Time as Director So Far — And Envisioning the Future

NIJ recently celebrated a milestone birthday — 50 years of scientific efforts to advance the field of criminal justice. Now is a great time for us to look back at all that we’ve accomplished. You can read about some of our most groundbreaking research and accomplishments in the 50th Anniversary Issue of the NIJ Journal.

Given all we know, and still don’t know, about...

Determining the Age of a Sample Using RNA Sequencing

Date Published

January 2020

Publication Type

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

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NIJ

Assessing the Impact of Individual-, School, and District-Level Factors on School-Based Arrests to the Department of Juvenile Justice

Date Published

December 2019

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Civil Citation as an Alternative to Arrest among Youth Apprehended by Law Enforcement

Date Published

December 2019

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Robust STR Calling From High-Throughput Sequencing Technologies

Date Published

February 2017

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Liquid Chromatography-Time of Flight-Mass Spectrometry (LC-TOF-MS) as a Replacement Screening Tool in a Full-Service, State Forensic Toxicology Laboratory

Date Published

June 2018

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Establishing a Rank Order for Skeletal Element Sampling: Examining Differential DNA Yield Rates Among and Between Buried Human Skeletal Elements as Compared to Surface Recovered Skeletal Elements

Date Published

March 2019

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Development and Validation of Two Innovative Quantitative Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Methods for Forensic Toxicology Laboratories

Date Published

December 2018

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Intra-Bone Variation of Recoverable Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA from Human Skeletal Material

Date Published

August 2019

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Evaluation of High Density SNP Microarrays to Obtain Phenotypic and Ancestry Information From Skeletal Remains

Date Published

November 2019

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Report to Congress: Needs Assessment of Forensic Laboratories and Medical Examiner/Coroner Offices

Date Published

December 2019

Publication Type

Report (Annual/Periodic)

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NIJ

Characterization and Classification of Sexual Assault Lubricants using Direct Analysis in Real Time-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry

Date Published

August 2019

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Viable, Affordable, and Meaningful Integration of Organic and Inorganic Analysis of Firearms Discharge Residue

Date Published

June 2019

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Developing Reliable Methods for Microbial Fingerprinting of Soil Evidence: Collection, Contamination, Storage, and Analysis

Date Published

August 2019

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

Shooting Distance Determination: Identifying Variables Affecting Lead Density on a Target

Date Published

May 2019

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Program/Project Description

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NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ's Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Scholars Program for Civilians

New scholars selected!

Meet the 2024 class of scholars.

For civilian government professionals working with law enforcement, the Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Scholars program offers a unique opportunity to partner with other LEADS Scholars in an effort to use evidence-based strategies and locally-tailored research to advance their agency’s mission.

The LEADS program grew out of a desire to support and develop...

Success Story: Enabling Forensic Field Testing With Paper Microfluidic Devices

Date Published

April 2019

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ R&D Portfolio Management and Technology Transition Support: Report Summary

Date Published

July 2014

Publication Type

Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

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NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ and Jensen Hughes: Advancing the Forensic Analysis of Ignitable Liquid Fuel Fires

Date Published

February 2018

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ and University of Central Florida Fire Research: Identifying Ignitable Liquids in Fire Debris and Providing Error Rates for Purposes of Testifying

Date Published

November 2016

Publication Type

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

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NIJ-Sponsored

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