Research and development
Where Political Extremists and Greedy Criminals Meet: A Comparative Study of Financial Crimes and Criminal Networks in the United States
Less-Lethal Technology: Conducted Energy Devices
A Proposal for Social Science Research on Wrongful Conviction
Action Research and the Community to Criminal Justice Feedback Loop
In this interview conducted at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Conference 2011, Edward Davis, Police Commissioner of the Boston Police Department, Massachusetts, discusses action research, including the successful use of violence reduction teams, and building trust between the community and the criminal justice field.
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Murder-Suicide in Families
Violence Prevention: An Invitation to Intersectoral Action
DNA Backlog Program Awards
In fiscal year 2020, all state and local forensic capacity enhancement programs previously administered by NIJ, including most of the programs listed on this page, moved to the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
The table below provides links to award information and abstracts for the DNA backlog reduction programs funded by NIJ.
Note: Data are currently only available from 2008 to present.
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Action Research to Enhance Investigations and Prosecutions of Sexual Assaults in Houston
The Detroit Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Action Research Project
Prevalence of Co-occurrence in Child Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence
Evaluating a Program to Reduce Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence
Child Interviews and the Prosecution of Child Abuse
Forensic Toxicology Research and Development Evaluation of New and Novel Direct Sample Introduction, Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (AccuTOF-DART) Instrument for Postmortem Toxicology Screening, Final Report
The 40th Anniversary of the Crime Report
New Technologies Promise Better Future Results
Sidebar to the article Extending the Time to Collect DNA in Sexual Assault Cases by Terry Taylor.
Director's Message - NIJ Journal Issue No. 267
In Brief: Expanding Research by Sharing Data
NIJ makes data available for future research.