Social and Behavioral Science
Safety Outcomes for Use-of-Force Cases for Law Enforcement Agencies With and Without Conducted Energy Devices
Date Published
November 28, 2016
Exploratory Research on the Impact of the Growing Oil Industry in North Dakota and Montana on Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking: A Final Summary Overview
Date Published
September 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Translational Criminology Research Fellowship
Date Published
November 2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Assessing the Influence of Home Visit Themes and Temporal Ordering on High-Risk Parolee Outcomes
Date Published
June 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Program/Project Evaluation,
Program/Project Description,
Legislation/Policy Analysis
Building an Innovation Agenda for Corrections
Journal
Corrections Today
Date Published
October 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Teen Dating Violence Victimization in an Urban Sample of Early Adolescents: Measurement, Prevalence, Trajectories, and Consequences
Date Published
October 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Preventing Gun Violence: Understanding Law Enforcement Response and Improving Multi-disciplinary Partnerships for Peace
November 2016
Series
This Research for the Real World seminar explores common police practices for responding to gun violence and the extent to which they are contributing to reductions in violent incidents. The panel will also explore the role of multi-disciplinary partners such as the public health sector in reducing gun violence, and discuss promising practices for law enforcement partnerships to leverage complimentary violence reduction efforts.
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Computers Learn To Detect Financial Abuse of the Elderly
Date Published
October 25, 2016
Computer learning may provide a new avenue for creating tools to identify financial exploitation among elderly adults.
Reducing Demand for Prostitution in San Francisco With a "John School" Program
Date Published
August 2016
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Improving the Investigation and Prosecution of State and Local Human Trafficking Cases
Date Published
September 2016
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Initiatives to Reduce Demand for Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the U.S.
Date Published
August 2016
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
How Does Labor Trafficking Occur in U.S. Communities and What Becomes of the Victims?
Date Published
September 2016
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Stabilizing Foreign-Born Adult Survivors of Human Trafficking in the U.S.
Date Published
September 2016
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
A Screening Tool for Identifying Trafficking Victims
Date Published
September 2016
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Estimating the Underground Commercial Sex Economy in the U.S.
Date Published
August 2016
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Future of Youth Justice: A Community-Based Alternative to the Youth Prison Model
Date Published
October 2016
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Program/Project Description,
Legislation/Policy Analysis,
Issue Overview
Using Research to Understand Cyberbullying
October 2016
Dr. Megan Moreno, Center for Child Health, Behavioral and Human Development at Seattle Children’s, discusses how important it is to have a common definition of cyberbullying in order to develop effective prevention and intervention programs. She leads a NIJ-supported research project to help us understand cyberbullying among children and teens.
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Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men
October 2016
This video describes the findings of a National Institute of Justice (NIJ) supported study on the prevalence of violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and men. Specifically, the study provides estimates of sexual violence, physical violence by intimate partners, stalking, and psychological aggression by intimate partners over the lifetime of American Indian and Alaska Native women and men as well as victimization estimates over of the past year (based on 2010 data).
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Find School Safety Programs on CrimeSolutions
October 2016
Dr. Stephanie Gerstenblith, Development Services Groups, discusses how to use CrimeSolutions to find evidence-based programs and practices that can improve school safety. Many of these programs were added to CrimeSolutions under NIJ’s Comprehensive School Safety Initiative.
Dr. Gerstenblith also addresses the lack of strong evaluations of school safety programs that schools are implementing and invested in; and the opportunity that presents for the research community.
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