Research
Reading Intervention, Academic and Behavioral Outcomes for Adolescents: A Community Agency and University Partnership Project
Assessing the Impact of Individual-, School, and District-Level Factors on School-Based Arrests to the Department of Juvenile Justice
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Civil Citation as an Alternative to Arrest among Youth Apprehended by Law Enforcement
Family Attachment and Juvenile Justice Outcomes: An Assessment of Visitation of Juvenile Delinquents in Residential Facilities
Robust STR Calling From High-Throughput Sequencing Technologies
Development and Validation of Two Innovative Quantitative Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Methods for Forensic Toxicology Laboratories
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Liquid Chromatography-Time of Flight-Mass Spectrometry (LC-TOF-MS) as a Replacement Screening Tool in a Full-Service, State Forensic Toxicology Laboratory
Establishing a Rank Order for Skeletal Element Sampling: Examining Differential DNA Yield Rates Among and Between Buried Human Skeletal Elements as Compared to Surface Recovered Skeletal Elements
Intra-Bone Variation of Recoverable Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA from Human Skeletal Material
Evaluation of High Density SNP Microarrays to Obtain Phenotypic and Ancestry Information From Skeletal Remains
Characterization and Classification of Sexual Assault Lubricants using Direct Analysis in Real Time-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
Developing Reliable Methods for Microbial Fingerprinting of Soil Evidence: Collection, Contamination, Storage, and Analysis
Shooting Distance Determination: Identifying Variables Affecting Lead Density on a Target
Viable, Affordable, and Meaningful Integration of Organic and Inorganic Analysis of Firearms Discharge Residue
NIJ's Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Scholars Program for Civilians
New scholars selected!
Meet the 2024 class of scholars.
NIJ typically accepts applications for new scholars in the spring.
The Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Civilians program offers a unique opportunity to engage and partner with other NIJ LEADS Scholars, all of whom are mid-career police officers, fellow civilians, and academics dedicated to advancing the police profession through science.
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