Public policy
Classification, Prediction, and Criminal Justice Policy
Identifying and Treating Overdose Hotspots: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Place-Based Harm Reduction Strategies
Reducing Courts’ Failure-to-Appear Rate by Written Reminders
Responding to Intimate Partner Violence Related Strangulation Integrating Policy, Practice, and Rese
This webinar examines the problem of Intimate Partner Violence Strangulation and an innovative response policy. The presentation will include an overview of the nature and extent of strangulation, its dangers, and adverse medical consequences followed by a review of a Strangulation Ordinance in Burleson, Texas that mandates extensive training for first responders and a city-wide response protocol for strangulation detection and investigation, documentation of strangulation signs and symptoms, medical assistance, and service referrals for strangulation survivors.
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DELINQUENCY PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS - A SURVEY
Celebrating 10 Years of NIJ’s Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Scholars Program - 2024 NIJ Research Conference
In 2014, NIJ established the Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Scholars Program to support research-minded, mid-career sworn law enforcement officers working to integrate research into agency policy and practice. The LEADS Scholars Program helps participants develop independent research and provides support to identify current evidence on priority issues.
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Improving Measurement of Community Safety Perceptions with Enhanced Data Inclusivity and Novel Use of Small Area Estimation through Respondent Driven Sampling: A Pilot Study in Detroit, Michigan
Research, Evaluation, and Analysis of Call Handling on Three-Digit Hotlines (REACH-3D)
Persistence and Desistance across Generations: A Longitudinal Investigation
Intelligence-Led Policing in New Jersey: Data Integration to Support the Investigation of Gun Crimes
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowships 2024-25
NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply - Funding for Support for the Operations of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
NIJ FY24 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System
Equal or Not? Private Versus Public Corrections Services, Programming, and Climate
Criminal Record Questions in the Era of "Ban the Box"
Service Utilization and Help Seeking in a National Sample of Female Rape Victims
A cyclically adjusted spatio-temporal kernel density estimation method for predictive crime hotspot analysis
Occupational prestige and job satisfaction in high-stress public safety work
Exploring the Guardian Mindset as a Strategy for Improving Police-Community Relations
Policing Leadership and Accountability: Harnessing Big Data and Causal Inference for Evaluating Police Reform Practices
Extreme Risk Protection Orders, Leakage, and Social Networks: The Legislative, Behavioral, and Social Contexts Surrounding Mass Public Shooting Incidents and Plots
Perceptions of White-Collar Crime Seriousness: Unpacking and Translating Attitudes into Policy Preferences
Cold Cases and Serial Killers (Part 1)
In April 2018, the Golden State Killer, Joseph DeAngelo was arrested. NIJ support helped lead to his arrest, and in the aftermath of the arrest, NIJ Social Science Analyst Eric Martin was among those tasked with finding other cases NIJ helped law enforcement solve. Eric joins the show to talk about some of those cases, and answer some broader questions about serial killers: What is a serial killer? Are they on the rise? How do we know how many serial killers are currently active?