Local government

From the Director: Body Armor Standards Updated to Better Protect Those in the Line of Fire

Lessons Learned on the Methodological Challenges in Studying Rare Violent Incidents

The Daunting Task of Strengthening Medical Examiner and Coroner Investigations Across Hundreds of Jurisdictions

Date Published

April 24, 2024

After a five-year fact-finding mission, a multi-agency working group has identified a host of problems in the U.S. medical examiner/coroner system, but solutions remain elusive.

The Great Experiment: California's Prison Realignment and the Legal Reform of Mass Incarceration

Date Published

2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Data and Dashboards: Research and Enhancements to Ensure Mecklenburg County’s Criminal Justice System is a Leader in Data-Driven Decision Making

15PNIJ-23-GG-00272-BRND

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$1,000,000

Research on a 15-Year Statewide Program to Generate Enhanced Investigative Leads on Crime Gun Violence

Date Published

April 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Tribal Crime, Justice, and Safety (Part 2)

July 2022

Series

Justice Today Podcast

Stacy Lee Reynolds and Christine (Tina) Crossland continue their discussion of tribal crime, justice, and safety, including how Native American persons experience crime victimization at higher rates than non-Native people and the jurisdictional complexities in responding to tribal crime, justice, and safety. Read the transcript.

Listen to the first half of Stacy and Tina’s discussion.

Reading and Resources from NIJ

Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants

Transcript

Tribal Crime, Justice, and Safety (Part 2)

Audio file

Tribal Crime, Justice, and Safety (Part Two)

National Juvenile Court Data Archive: Final Technical Report

Date Published

February 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Developing a Community-led Approach to Countering Violent Extremism (CVE): An Instructor's Manual

Date Published

June 2016

Publication Type

Training (Handbook/Manual)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Police, Local Government and Citizens as Participants in Local Safety Networks (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 91-102, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-207973)

Date Published

September 2004

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ

Protective Intelligence and Threat Assessment Investigations: A Guide for State and Local Law Enforcement Officials

Date Published

January 2000

Series

NIJ Research Report

Publication Type

Guideline

Agencies

NIJ

Interrupting the Cycle of Violence: Insights from the Urban Institute’s Research-Based Practice Guidance to Reduce Youth Gun and Gang/Group Violence

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

Series

Interrupting the Cycle of Violence: Insights from the Urban Institute’s Research-Based Practice Guidance to Reduce Youth Gun and Gang/Group

Anarchy's Neighborhoods: the Formation of a Quadriplex Urban Ecology

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Distinguishing Corruption in Law and Practice: Empirically Separating Conviction Charges From Underlying Behaviors

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Most Challenging of Contexts

Date Published

2015

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ

Implementing NAGPRA Connecting Medical Examiner and Coroner Offices to Tribal Partners

December 2021

This project is designed to connect tribal partners to ME/C offices to facilitate successful disposition protocols for non-forensically significant Native American remains that are compliant with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA).

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