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Quantum of Force: The Consequences of Counting Routine Conducted Energy Weapon Punctures as Injuries

Date Published

2015

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Estimating the probability that the Taser® directly causes human ventricular fibrillation

Date Published

January 2010

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Electro-Muscular Disruption Technology: A Nine-Step Strategy for Successful Deployment

Date Published

2005

Publication Type

Report (Technical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Police Use of Firearms a Constant?--The Swedish and Norwegian Experience (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 228-244, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-207973)

Date Published

September 2004

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ

NIJ's Less-Than-Lethal Flash-Bang Round Project

Date Published

August 2003

Publication Type

Best Practice/State-of-the-Art Review

Agencies

NIJ

Resource Guide to Law Enforcement, Corrections, and Forensic Technologies

Date Published

May 2001

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance)

Agencies

NIJ, COPS

Autoloading Pistols for Police Officers: NIJ Standard-0112.03

Date Published

November 1999

Agencies

NIJ

TASER Exposure and Cognitive Impairment: Implications for Valid Miranda Waivers and the Timing of Police Custodial Interrogations

Date Published

December 2015

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ-Funded Research on Firearms Violence in Urban Cities Advancing Scientific Evidence to Inform Practice

December 2021

In this full thematic panel, renowned experts will present a series of papers summarizing the newest findings of NIJ-funded research projects on criminal offenses with firearms in urban areas. Researchers used various criminological and other theories, including routine activity theory, socio-ecological and socio-environmental perspectives, and advanced mixed-study methods, including surveys and spatio-temporal designs, to produce scientific evidence to inform practice.

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NIJ Research Review, February 2002, Volume 3, Issue 1: Selected Summaries

Date Published

February 2002

Series

NIJ Research Report

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ

NIJ Compliance Testing for Autoloading Pistols

NIJ administers the NIJ Compliance Testing Program (NIJ CTP) to determine a specific pistol model’s compliance with NIJ Standard 0112.03, Autoloading Pistols for Police Officers, Revision A. The NIJ CTP helps ensure the pistols purchased and used by law enforcement agencies will perform as expected.

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Project Safe Neighborhoods: Strategic Interventions - Lowell, District of Massachusetts (Case Study 6)

Date Published

February 2007

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BJA

Deterrence, Firearm Arrests, and Subsequent Shootings: A Micro-Level Spatio-Temporal Analysis

Date Published

August 2012

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Equipment Performance Report: 1999 Autoloading Pistols

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Test/Measurement, Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Instructional Material

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Making Guns Smart: The Next Step

Date Published

1999

Publication Type

Report (Technical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Community Policing Against Guns: Public Opinion of the Kansas City Gun Experiment

Date Published

1995

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Violent Police-citizen Encounter

Date Published

1980

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

And Nobody Can Get You Out: The Impact of a Mandatory Prison Sentence for the Illegal Carrying of a Firearm on the Use of Firearms and on the Administration of Criminal Justice in Boston

Date Published

1976

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NIJ-Sponsored

How "Less" Is Less Than Lethal?

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Test/Measurement

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Firearms, Violence, and Civil Disorders

Date Published

1968

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Juvenile Gun Violence and Gun Markets in Boston

Date Published

March 1997

Series

NIJ Research Preview

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ

Skin Penetration Assessment of Less Lethal Kinetic Energy Munitions

Date Published

November 2005

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Using Shotguns as Less-Lethal Weapons

Date Published

August 2018

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Examining Cognitive Functioning Following TASER Exposure: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Date Published

August 2015

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

A TASER Conducted Electrical Weapon With Cardiac Biomonitoring Capability: Proof of Concept and Initial Human Trial

Date Published

October 2016

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored