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Advancing Understanding, and Informing Prevention of Public Mass Shootings: Findings from NIJ Funded Studies, Part 1
In recent years, NIJ invested in several research projects to advance understanding and inform prevention of public mass shootings.
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Police Negotiators' Reconciliation of Interpersonal and Coercive Role Demands in Relationships With Suspects
Address By James K Stewart at the Conference of the International Association of Police Chiefs, October 3, 1983
Managing Mentally Disordered Detainees
Effects of Marijuana Legalization on Law Enforcement and Crime: Executive Summary
Identifying Law Enforcement Needs for Conducting Criminal Investigations Involving Evidence on the Dark Web
Tribal Justice, Tribal Court: Strengthening Tribal Justice Systems Using Restorative Approaches
Less Prison, More Police, Less Crime: How Criminology Can Save the States from Bankruptcy
Professor Lawrence Sherman explains how policing can prevent far more crimes than prison per dollar spent. His analysis of the cost-effectiveness of prison compared to policing suggests that states can cut their total budgets for justice and reduce crime by reallocating their spending on crime: less prison, more police.
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Changing the Behavior of Drug-Involved Offenders: Supervision That Works
A small number of those who commit crimes are heavily involved in drugs commit a large portion of the crime in this country. An evaluation of a "smart supervision" effort in Hawaii that uses swift and certain sanctioning showed that individuals committing crimes who are heavily involved in drug use can indeed change their behavior when the supervision is properly implemented.
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