Literature Reviews
Revisiting Incapacitation: Can We Generate New Estimates?
Shock Incarceration: Rehabilitation or Retribution?
Valuation of Specific Crime Rates: Final Report
Predicting Neighborhood Risk of Crime
Improving the Use of Management by Objectives in Police Departments
Assessing Correctional Rehabilitation: Policy, Practice, and Prospects
Female Prostitution, Customers, and Violence
Violence in Intimate Relationships: A Conceptual and Empirical Examination of Sexual and Physical Aggression
Preventing Assassination: Secret Service Exceptional Case Study Project
A Handful of Unlawful Behaviors, Led by Fraud and Bribery, Account for Nearly All Public Corruption Convictions Since 1985
Video: Reducing Traffic Fatalities: NIJ LEADS Scholar Spotlight
Women in Policing
Captain Ivonne Roman, Newark (NJ) Police Department, describes how her participation in NIJ’s LEADS Program has helped her research on women in policing, some of her findings, and describes how LEADS has benefited her career growth.
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Reducing Traffic Fatalities – NIJ LEADS Scholar Spotlight
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Forensic Familial and Moderate Stringency DNA Searches: Policies and Practices in the U.S., England, and Wales
Epidemiology of Crime Guns: Summary
Design and Testing of a Computational Aid for Fire Debris Data Interpretation
A Multifactorial Approach to Estimating Geographic Origin of Hispanics Using Cranial and Dental Data
Evaluation of Safe Horizon Family Court Program
Research and Law Enforcement Partnerships Manage Civil Disturbances More Effectively
Law enforcement agencies can use research-based practices to manage protests and civil disturbances more effectively. In this video, Dr. Tamara Herold, Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Ryan Lee, Assistant Chief, Portland Police Bureau, discuss some of those methods, some of the misconceptions about how law enforcement should respond to civil disturbances, and where agencies should begin when developing civil disturbance response plans.
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NIJ Journal Issue No. 254
Identifying Technology Needs and Innovations to Advance Corrections
International Organized Crime: Recent Developments in Policy and Research
Since 2008, DOJ has been reviewing its policies and programs on international organized crime, with the goal of strengthening law enforcement's response to this threat. In this NIJ Conference Panel, the speakers will explore how DOJ and other U.S. government agencies are responding to it. Attendees will learn more about the Attorney General's Organized Crime Council, the International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center, and the recent National Intelligence Estimate on International Organized Crime.
Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime, FY 2017 Solicitation Webinar
This webinar will provide details and guidance for potential applicants to the National Institute of Justice's Research and Evaluation of Drugs and Crime FY 2017 solicitation. The presenters will discuss the purpose and goals of this funding opportunity and address frequently asked questions. A Q&A session will conclude this webinar.
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Prosecuting Cases of Elder Abuse
This panel will feature NIJ-funded research that has direct, practical implications for the prosecution of elder abuse cases. Panelists will present findings from a study of prosecutors in three states that examined the factors that influenced their decisions to prosecute elder financial abuse cases. The panel will also provide the results from an evaluation of five innovative court-based models that target perpetrators of elder abuse.