Public defenders
Drug Offenders and the Courts: Case Studies of Three Courts, Summary Report
Sentencing Guidelines: Their Effect in Minnesota
Productivity and Resource Allocation in Prosecution and Public Defender Agencies
Measuring the Severity of Criminal Penalties - Provisional Results
IMPROVING DEFENDER-CLIENT RELATIONS
DEFENSE ATTORNEY'S ROLE IN PLEA BARGAINING
How Much Difference Does the Lawyer Make? The Effect of Defense Counsel on Murder Case Outcomes
Gideon at 60: A Snapshot of State Public Defense Systems and Paths to System Reform
Second looks for youth: An implementation evaluation of resentencing models in five jurisdictions
Building Better Indigent Defense Systems
Case Weighting Systems for the Public Defender - A Handbook for Budget Preparation
Stakeholder Statements Submitted in Response to the Department of Justice's Continued Review and Refinement of PATTERN
NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice: Advancing Access to Justice 60 Years after Gideon
The Evolving Character of Public Defense: Comparing Criminal Case Processing Effectiveness and Outcomes Across Holistic Public Defense, Traditional Public Defense, and Privately Retained Counsel
Predicting Recidivism in Georgia Using Lasso Regression Models with Several New Constructs
"Satan's Minions" and "True Believers": How Criminal Defense Attorneys Employ Quasi-Religious Rhetoric and What It Suggests about Lawyering Culture
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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The Effects of Holistic Defense on Criminal Justice Outcomes
From Funnels to Large-Scale Irrigation: Changing the Criminal Justice System Paradigm to Improve Public Health and Safety
Early Representation by Defense Counsel Field Test - Final Evaluation Report - Executive Summary
Early Representation by Defense Counsel Field Test - Final Evaluation Report
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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