Research programs
Estimating the Financial Costs of Crime Victimization, Final Report
NIJ LEADS Program Increases Research Capabilities of Law Enforcement Officers
This video, produced for IACPTV, provides an overview of the NIJ Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) program. NIJ LEADS Scholars from Dayton and Newark police departments provide an overview of the LEADS program as they describe their projects and experiences working in the program.
Hear from LEADS scholars Major Wendy Stiver, Dayton Police Department, and Captain Ivonne Roman, Newark Police Department.
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National Institute of Justice: Strengthening Science and Advancing Justice
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A Brief History of NIJ
NIJ Journal Issue No. 281
NIJ Research Assistantship Program
Wrongful Convictions: The Latest Scientific Research & Implications for Law Enforcement
What does science tell us about case factors that can lead to a wrongful conviction? Dr. Jon Gould of American University will discuss the findings of the first large-scale empirical study that has identified ten statistically significant factors that distinguish a wrongful conviction from a "near miss." (A "near miss" is a case in which an innocent defendant was acquitted or had charges dismissed before trial). Following Dr. Gould's presentation, Mr. John R.
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Men Who Murder Their Families: What the Research Tells Us
Preventing Gun Violence: Understanding Law Enforcement Response and Improving Multi-disciplinary Partnerships for Peace
Employing Research To Understand Violence Against Women
Fighting Stress in the Law Enforcement Community
NIJ Journal Issue No. 242
NIJ Journal Issue No. 256
NIJ Journal Issue No. 260
NIJ Journal Issue No. 268
Research in the Ranks: Empowering Law Enforcement To Drive Their Own Scientific Inquiry
NIJ Journal Issue No. 275
The Importance of a Holistic Safety, Health, and Wellness Research Program
Identifying Technology Needs and Innovations to Advance Corrections
Using Research To Understand Cyberbullying
Police-on-Police Shootings and the Puzzle of Unconscious Racial Bias
Professor Christopher Stone recently completed a study of police-on-police shootings as part of a task force he chaired in New York State. He reported on his findings and recommendations, exploring the role of race in policing decisions, methods to improve training and tactics to defuse police-on-police confrontations before they become fatal, and methods to improve the investigations of such shootings.
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Opening the Black Box of NIBIN
Bill King discusses the operations of the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN), a program through which firearms examiners at state and local crime laboratories compare tool marks on fired bullets or cartridges found at a crime scene to digitized images of ballistic evidence in a nationwide database.
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