Policy think tanks
Randomized Controlled Study of the EMPOWER Program to Prevent Abuse and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults
Building the Capacity of Community-Facing Agencies to Implement Evidence-Based Practices
Persistence and Desistance across Generations: A Longitudinal Investigation
Evaluating Technology-Based Services for Victims of Crime
Three NIJ-funded evaluations enhance our understanding about the effectiveness of technology-based services for victims who experience crime and violence.
Implementation Evaluation of Hate Crime Task Forces
Inclusive Research: Engaging People Closest to the Issue Makes for Better Science & Greater Impact; 2023 NIJ Research Conference Plenary
This panel will discuss what inclusive research is, how to conduct it, and what issues and challenges exist about engaging in it. “Inclusive research” has its history as a participatory research method designed to ensure people closest to the issue or problem under study are authentically engaged in the research process rather than simply being “research subjects.” While community-based participatory research has begun to take on greater prominence in the criminal justice realm, such efforts are largely confined to qualitative research inquiries.
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Embracing Tribal Culture to Build Research Partnerships
Replication Validation of a Human Trafficking Screening Tool for Law Enforcement and Estimation of Prevalence
Keeping the Prison Clean: An Update on Pennsylvania's Drug Control Strategy
Research on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism: Insights from Family and Friends of Current and Former Extremists
Booker and Beyond Analyzing Sentencing Reform and Exploring New Research Directions
This webinar features a discussion of previously published research on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 Booker decision - which effectively transformed the United States Sentencing Guidelines from a mandatory, to an advisory, system. The presentation will address selected research findings from the last 15 years. Individual participants will briefly review their previous research findings with particular attention paid to the analytic methods used.
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Booker and Beyond: Analyzing Sentencing Reform and Exploring New Research Directions
A Summary of the Hoopa Valley Tribe's and Tribal Law and Policy Institute's Research Partnership
Expanding Research to Examine the Impacts of Forensic Science on the Criminal Justice System
In 2004, the National Institute of Justice created the social science research on forensic sciences (SSRFS) research program to explore the impact of forensic sciences on the criminal justice system and the administration of justice. Much of the early research from the SSRFS program focused on DNA processing and the use of DNA in investigations and prosecutions.
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A Multi-Methodological Approach to Estimating Ancestry and Sex in Asian Groups for Forensic Casework
Criminology Against Crime: Criminologists and Crime Control for the Indianapolis Police Department
Improving the Recruitment of Hispanics Into Law Enforcement Careers
Notes From the Field: Navigating the Wild Wild West of Emerging Technologies for Public Safety
Illegal Immigration, Immigration Enforcement Policies, and American Citizens Victimization Risk
Northwest Indian Community Development Center- Tribal Law and Policy Institute Research Partnership
Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men - 2010 Findings from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey
This seminar provides the first set of estimates from a national large-scale survey of violence against women and men who identified themselves as American Indian or Alaska Native using detailed behaviorally specific questions on psychological aggression, coercive control and entrapment, physical violence, stalking, and sexual violence. These results are expected to raise awareness and understanding of violence experienced by American Indian and Alaska Native people.
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State Responses to Mass Incarceration
Researchers have devoted considerable attention to mass incarceration, specifically its magnitude, costs, and collateral consequences. In the face of economic constraints, strategies to reduce correctional populations while maintaining public safety are becoming a fiscal necessity. This panel will present strategies that states have undertaken to reduce incarceration rates while balancing taxpayer costs with ensuring public safety.
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Nurse-Family Partnerships: From Trials to International Replication
David Olds, founder of the Nurse-Family Partnership Program, describes the programs long-term impact on mothers and babies who began participating in the program more than 19 years ago. The Nurse-Family Partnership maternal health program introduces vulnerable first-time parents to maternal and child health nurses. It allows nurses to deliver the support first-time moms need to have a healthy pregnancy, become knowledgeable and responsible parents, and provide their babies and later children and young adults with the best possible start in life.
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