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Us Versus Them? The Problem of Cognitive Distortions in Policing

Date Published

February 2024

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

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"Experience of the Expected?" Race and Ethnicity Differences in the Effects of Police Contact on Youth

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

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

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Re-examining the Normative, Expressive, and Instrumental Models: How Do Feelings of Insecurity Condition the Willingness To Cooperate With Police in Different Contexts?

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

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

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Reporting Victimization to the Police: the Role of Racial Dyad and Bias Motivation

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

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

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The Effects of Body-worn Cameras on Police Activity and Police-Citizen Encounter: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

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

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Police Service Delivery to the Elderly, Final Report

Date Published

1978

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Desistance from Crime: Interventions to Help Promote Desistance and Reduce Recidivism

November 2022

No single criminal justice agency can promote desistance on its own. Partnerships across state, local, and federal agencies — along with the support of family and community stakeholders — are instrumental in supporting desistance from crime and reducing recidivism.

Law enforcement, courts, corrections, and community supervision agencies play a key role in the desistance process and reducing recidivism.

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Examining Macro-Level Impacts on Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy

Date Published

August 2012

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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Policing for People

Date Published

1999

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance)

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NIJ

Controlling Street-level Drug Trafficking: Evidence From Oakland and Birmingham

Date Published

1992

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

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NIJ

Professionalism, Goals and the Nature of Private Police in Slovenia

Date Published

2006

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research), Legislation/Policy Description

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NIJ

Policing Protest and the Avoidance of Violence: Dilemmas and Problems of Legitimacy

Date Published

December 2006

Publication Type

Case Study

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Measurement of Seriousness of Police Corruption (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 300-311, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-207973)

Date Published

September 2004

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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NIJ

Gender Differences in Leniency Towards Police Misconduct (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 323-338, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., -- See NCJ-207973)

Date Published

September 2004

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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Policing, Order Maintenance and Legitimacy (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 38-48, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-207973)

Date Published

September 2004

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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NIJ

Effect of Prior Police Contact on Victimization Reporting Results From the Police-Public Contact and National Crime Victimization Surveys

Date Published

June 2018

Publication Type

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

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Police Legitimacy and Disrupting Overt Drug Markets

Date Published

2016

Publication Type

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

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Street-Level Policing in Cincinnati: The Content of Community and Traditional Policing and the Perceptions of Policing Audiences

Date Published

2001

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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Officer and Suspect Demeanor: A Qualitative Analysis of Change

Date Published

March 2009

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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Privacy and the impact of emerging surveillance technologies: The case of license plate recognition technology

Date Published

2012

Publication Type

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

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Policing in Public Housing: Using Calls for Service To Examine Incident-Based Workload in the Philadelphia Housing Authority

Date Published

1998

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Defending the Community: Results of a Citizen Survey on Coproduction and Community Policing (Video)

Date Published

March 2002

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NIJ Research in Progress Seminars

Publication Type

Survey

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Test of Lundman's Organizational Product Thesis with Data on Citizen Complaints

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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Attitudes Toward Crime, Police, and the Law: Individual and Neighborhood Differences

Date Published

June 1999

Series

NIJ Research Preview

Publication Type

Survey

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NIJ

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

Date Published

1995

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored