Ballistic Tests of Used Soft Body Armor
Date Published
1986
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
National Research Council
Prison and Jail Crowding - Workshop Proceedings
Date Published
1987
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Drugs and Crime: Workshop Proceedings
Date Published
1987
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Lending an Ear in the Courtroom: Forensic Acoustics
Journal
Acoustics Today
Date Published
2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Building More Reliable Forensic Sciences, Part 2
April 2023
Series
The scientific basis of several aspects of forensic evidence was first called into question by the 2009 National Research Council report. That report had an immediate impact on law enforcement, crime labs, courtrooms, and the broader scientific community.
Building More Reliable Forensic Sciences
Date Published
March 2023
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Building More Reliable Forensic Sciences, Part 1
March 2023
Series
The scientific basis of several aspects of forensic evidence was first called into question by the 2009 National Research Council report. That report had an immediate impact on law enforcement, crime labs, courtrooms, and the broader scientific community.
The Slow but Steady March Towards a More Reliable Forensic Science
Date Published
December 2022
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Credibility and Use of Scientific and Technical Information in Science Policy Making: An Analysis of the Information Bases of the National Research Council’s committee reports
Journal
Research Policy
Date Published
2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Contributions to ROC Curve and Likelihood Ratio Estimation for Forensic Evidence Interpretation
Date Published
2020
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Thesis/Dissertation
Advances toward validating examiner writership opinion based on handwriting kinematics
Journal
Forensic Science International: Genetics
Date Published
January 2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Recidivism Forecasting Challenge
Learn about the winners and challenge results -
- A Synthesis of the 2021 NIJ Forecasting Challenge Winning Reports: published in January 2024, this paper aims to add to the knowledge of risk assessment creation by synthesizing the 25 winning, nonstudent papers.
- NIJ 2021 Forecasting Challenge: Filtering Winners by Year, Variables, and Methods: a dashboard below allows you to filter down the winning submissions...
Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate Assessment and Evidence Interpretation
2019-DU-BX-4011
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2020
$495,056
Elder Abuse in Residential Long-Term Care: An Update to the 2003 National Research Council Report
Journal
Journal of Applied Gerontology
Date Published
July 2013
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: The Role of Science in Addressing the Effects of Incarceration on Family Life
Journal
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Date Published
May 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Legislation/Policy Analysis,
Issue Overview
DNATYPE for Windows 95/NT: User Manual and Guide
Date Published
1999
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Handbook
First Progress Report: NIJ's Response to "Strengthening the National Institute of Justice"
Message from NIJ Director John Laub in response to the report Strengthening the National Institute of Justice by the Committee on Assessing the Research Program of the National Institute of Justice at the National Research Council
I read the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report on the National Institute of Justice when...
Second Progress Report: NIJ's Response to "Strengthening the National Institute of Justice"
Message from NIJ Director John H. Laub in response to the report Strengthening the National Institute of Justice by the Committee on Assessing the Research Program of the National Institute of Justice at the National Research Council.
This page provides updates on our response to the results of an evaluation by The National Academy of Sciences that examined NIJ capacity for meeting the needs of...
Third Progress Report: NIJ's Response to "Strengthening the National Institute of Justice"
Message from NIJ Director John H. Laub in response to the report Strengthening the National Institute of Justice by the Committee on Assessing the Research Program of the National Institute of Justice at the National Research Council.
Responding to the NRC Report
This page provides updates on our response to the results of an evaluation by The National Academy of Sciences's National Research Council that...
Prosecuting Cases of Elder Abuse
June 2010
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.
Transcript
Audio file
1 of 4: Prosecuting Cases of Elder Abuse, Andy Mao, Senior Counsel for Health Care Fraud and Elder Justice, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice
, 2 of 4: Prosecuting Cases of Elder Abuse, Shelly Jackson, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
, 3 of 4: Prosecuting Cases of Elder Abuse, Lori Stiegel, Senior Attorney, Commission on Law and Aging, American Bar Association
, 4 of 4: Prosecuting Cases of Elder Abuse, Page Ulrey, Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, King County Prosecutor's Office, Seattle, Wash.
Validating Conclusion Scales in the Forensic Sciences
2018-DU-BX-0212
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$249,206
Measuring the Frequency Occurrence of Handwriting and Hand-Printing Characteristics, Report
Date Published
January 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Understanding Incarceration and Re-Entry Experiences of Female Inmates and their Children: The Women''s Prison Inmate Networks Study (WO-PINS)
2016-MU-MU-0011
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2016
$685,857
High-throughput DNA Sequencing of Environmentally Insulted Latent and Partial Bloody Fingerprints After Visualization with the Nanoscale Columnar-Thin-Film Technique
2016-DN-BX-0153
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2016
$397,643