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Building Trust Inside and Out The Challenge of Legitimacy Facing Police Leaders

In the face of budget cuts, changing workforce demands, new varieties of crime and new technologies, how should police executives manage officers and other personnel and still ensure that organizational goals are being met?

Drawing on new data from a national sample, Dr. Dennis Rosenbaum, Director of the Center for Research in Law and Justice at the University of Illinois, Chicago, discussed the latest findings...

Cyber Cops in Training

Journal
Techbeat
Date Published
2004
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Description

Violent Police-citizen Encounter

Journal
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Date Published
1980
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)

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.