Legal System
Best Practices for Improving the Use of Criminal Justice Risk Assessments: Insights From NIJ’s Recidivism Forecasting Challenge Winners Symposium
Winners from NIJ’s Recidivism Forecasting Challenge share their approaches to employing risk assessments and recommendations for practitioners and scientists.
Profiles of Risk for Self-injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Among System-Impacted Girls of Color
Does Lying Require More or Less Visual Working Memory and What Does It Mean for the Legal System?
No Escape: Mass Incarceration and the Social Ecology of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
"Roses have Thorns for a Reason”: The Promises and Perils of Critical Youth Participatory Research with System-impacted Girls of Color
Cohort bias in predictive risk assessments of future criminal justice system involvement
The Impact of Legal-Financial Obligations on Relationships With Family, Friends, and Acquaintances: A Qualitative Study of Community Supervised Men With Sexual and Nonsexual Offense Convictions
A Conceptual Model of Help-Seeking by Black Americans After Violent Injury: Implications for Reducing Inequities in Access to Care
Expert versus Youth Raters on Measuring Social and Therapeutic Climate in Secure Juvenile Placement
'We Can't Get No Nine-to-Five': New York City Gang Membership as a Response to the Structural Violence of Everyday Life
Can Law Enforcement Training Address Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality? An Experimental Evaluation of Effective Youth Interactions
911, What's Your Emergency?: Factors Impacting Call Coding
A Nationwide Assessment of Jail Reentry Policies and Practices: A Two-Tiered Study of the Field
Caring Connections for Youth: Evaluation of a Countywide Pre-Arrest Diversion Initiative to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities
Building Better Indigent Defense Systems
Mapping the Continuum of Support for Violent Extremism in the United States
Inclusive Research: Engaging People Closest to the Issue Makes for Better Science & Greater Impact; 2023 NIJ Research Conference Plenary
This panel will discuss what inclusive research is, how to conduct it, and what issues and challenges exist about engaging in it. “Inclusive research” has its history as a participatory research method designed to ensure people closest to the issue or problem under study are authentically engaged in the research process rather than simply being “research subjects.” While community-based participatory research has begun to take on greater prominence in the criminal justice realm, such efforts are largely confined to qualitative research inquiries.
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Cyberstalking: A Growing Challenge for the U.S. Legal System
When State Violence Comes Home: From Criminal Legal System Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence in a Time of Mass Incarceration
Meeting People Where They Are to Improve Institutional Culture
Incarcerated individuals deserve opportunities for healing and growth, but they often lack the necessary resources for such opportunities. Additionally, organizational cultures that don’t support these outcomes often stand in the way. Researchers and practitioners gathered at NIJ’s 2023 National Research Conference to share ideas and projects that will increase opportunities for incarcerated populations around the country. This show continues their conversation.