Law enforcement personnel
NIJ LEADS Program Increases Research Capabilities of Law Enforcement Officers
This video, produced for IACPTV, provides an overview of the NIJ Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) program. NIJ LEADS Scholars from Dayton and Newark police departments provide an overview of the LEADS program as they describe their projects and experiences working in the program.
Hear from LEADS scholars Major Wendy Stiver, Dayton Police Department, and Captain Ivonne Roman, Newark Police Department.
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Rapid and Effective Identification of Organic and Inorganic Gunshot Residues
Protecting Against Stress and Trauma: Research Lessons for Law Enforcement - Research and Practice
Protecting Against Stress and Trauma: Research Lessons for Law Enforcement - Defining the Problem
NIJ Journal Issue No. 281
Measuring the Criminal Justice System Impacts of Marijuana Legalization and Decriminalization Using State Data
Novel GLC-based Method for Identification of Positional Isomeric Fentanyls
Validation of a Single Instrument, Single Sample Protocol for the Detection of the Inorganicand Organic Constituents of Firearms Discharge Residue
Development of a Probability Model to Predict Head Injury Risk in Pediatric Falls
Supporting States to Test Sexual Assault Evidence
Crime laboratory and law enforcement personnel from three states discuss the value the NIJ-FBI Sexual Assault Kit Partnership to test sexual assault evidence and obtain investigatory leads.
During this partnership, NIJ is working with the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, to test eligible kits from law enforcement agencies and laboratories across the country and develop best practices that can improve the quality and speed of sexual assault kit processing.
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Why Is the United States the Most Homicidal Nation in the Affluent World?
Ohio State University Since World War II, the homicide rate in the U.S. has been three to ten times higher than in Canada, Western Europe, and Japan. This, however, has not always been the case. What caused the dramatic change? Dr. Roth discussed how and why rates of different kinds of homicide have varied across time and space over the past 450 years, including an examination of the murder of children by parents or caregivers, intimate partner violence, and homicides among unrelated adults.
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Research and Law Enforcement Partnerships Manage Civil Disturbances More Effectively
NIJ Journal Issue No. 268
How Collaboration Between Researchers and Police Chiefs Can Improve the Quality of Sexual Assault Investigations: A Look at Los Angeles
Panelists discuss the application of research findings from an NIJ-sponsored study of sexual assault attrition to police practice in Los Angeles. There are three main focal points: (1) the mutual benefits of researcher/practitioner partnerships, (2) the implications of variation in police interpretation of UCR guidelines specific to clearing sexual assault (with an emphasis on cases involving nonstrangers), and (3) the content of specialized training that must be required for patrol officers and detectives who respond to and investigate sex crimes.
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Framework for Law Enforcement Responses to People With Mental Health Needs
Children Exposed to Violence
Panelists will discuss the results of the recent Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's National Survey on Children's Exposure to Violence and findings from a seven-year follow-up study, funded by NIJ, on home visitation in New York. The survey's findings included startling figures: More than 60 percent of the children interviewed were exposed to violence, crime and abuse within the past year, and more than 1 in 10 were injured in an assault.
Campus Drugs and Sexual Assault
Interview with Christopher Krebs, RTI International
Women in Policing: Breaking Barriers and Blazing a Path
Developing Effective Police Workforces: The Importance of Staffing Structures
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DRAFT Selection and Application Guide to Offender Tracking Systems for Criminal Justice Professionals - NIJ Guide 1004.00
Opioid Crisis: NIJ Resources for First Responders
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