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Advancing Justice for the Missing and Unidentified Through Research - 2024 NIJ Research Conference

September 2024

Forensic science research is developing essential knowledge to fill in the holes in death investigations, creating new ways to identify challenging skeletal remains. These methods inform cause of death, time of death, and familial relationships to guide investigations, identify suspects, support prosecutions, and bring justice to families.

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Identifying High-Priority Needs to Improve Data and Metrics in Policing

Date Published

June 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Gender-Based Violence and the Latinx Community

September 2022

In this webinar, a panel of experts will share what the field currently knows about gender-based violence in the Latinx community.

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Improve craniometric ancestry estimation with deep learning methods

15PNIJ-22-GG-04431-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$306,271

Identifying the Scope and Context of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) in New Mexico and Improving MMIP Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting

15PNIJ-22-GG-01625-REVA

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$249,382

Tribal Crime, Justice, and Safety (Part 2)

July 2022

Series

Justice Today Podcast

Stacy Lee Reynolds and Christine (Tina) Crossland continue their discussion of tribal crime, justice, and safety, including how Native American persons experience crime victimization at higher rates than non-Native people and the jurisdictional complexities in responding to tribal crime, justice, and safety. Read the transcript.

Listen to the first half of Stacy and Tina’s discussion.