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Crime Initiatives and the "Asteroid Theory" of Direct Democracy in Oregon (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 112-125, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-207973)
Policing In Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice
Advanced Crime Mapping Topics
How Much Violence Against Women is There? (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See NCJ-199701)
Transnational Crime: A New Health Threat for Corrections
Learning from Doing Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Second Chance Act Grant Program
Reauthorized in 2018, the Second Chance Act (SCA) aims to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for people returning from state and federal prisons, local jails, and juvenile facilities through the provision of federal grants. During this panel, National Institute of Justice-funded researchers will detail two ongoing evaluations of the SCA grant program:
- An evaluation of the effectiveness of the SCA grant program per Title V of the First Step Act.
- A longitudinal examination of the long-term impacts of the SCA program.
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The Hidden Costs of Reentry: Understanding the Barriers to Removing a Criminal Record
NIJ hosted a webinar to discuss under-researched aspects of reentry: expungement of criminal records and the impact of those records. This webinar includes a presentation of ongoing research projects examining the impact of legal aid for expungement and past research projects studying the accuracy and permanency of criminal records and the prevalence of collateral consequences of conviction. A Q&A session will conclude this webinar.
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From Successful Reentry to Stronger Communities
Desistance: It’s a Process, Not an Event
Do license plate readers enhance the initial and residual deterrent effects of police patrol? A quasi-randomized test
The ties that bribe: Corruption's embeddedness in Chicago organized crime
The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism
The Link Between Prior Criminal Record and Violent Political Extremism in the United States
Using Social Media To Measure Temporal Ambient Population: Does It Help Explain Local Crime Rates?
The National Ballistics Imaging Comparison (NBIC) Project
Creation of School Shooting Open-Source Database Fuels Understanding
Researchers have created the first open-source catalog of U.S. school shootings to better understand the causes of school-related gun violence and identify intervention points.