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National Institute of Justice's Evaluation of Second Chance Act Adult Reentry Courts: Program Characteristics and Preliminary Themes from Year 1

Date Published

February 2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Erroneous Convictions in Criminal Justice

March 2013

Interview with Jon Gould, Ph.D., Director of the Washington Institute for Public and International Affairs Research, American University.

Dr. Gould discusses:

• Bottom line findings from the study "Predicting Erroneous Convictions: A Social Science Approach to Miscarriages of Justice"
• Ten statistically significant factors related to wrongful convictions
• The role of systemic error and tunnel vision

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Anatomy of Discretion: An Analysis of Prosecutorial Decision Making - Technical Report

Date Published

November 2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Legislation/Policy Analysis

Anatomy of Discretion: An Analysis of Prosecutorial Decision Making - Summary Report

Date Published

November 2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Legislation/Policy Analysis

Developing End-User Criteria and a Prototype for an Elder Abuse Assessment System

Date Published

December 2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Impact of Proactive Enforcement of No-Contact Orders on Victim Safety and Repeat Victimization

Date Published

June 2008

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Measuring the Effect of Defense Counsel on Homicide Case Outcomes

Date Published

December 2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Measuring the Effect of Defense Counsel on Homicide Case Outcomes, Executive Summary

Date Published

December 2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Partners in Research: Lessons Learned in Los Angeles

Ending Modern-Day Slavery: Using Research to Inform U.S. Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts

What Collateral Consequences Are in the Database?

Date Published

February 26, 2013

Director's Message - NIJ Journal Issue No. 271

Date Published

February 26, 2013

The Prevalence of Labor Trafficking in the United States

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Criminal Justice Reforms

What Is Random Forest Modeling?

Kristen M. Zgoba Wins the Peter P. Lejins Research Award

Date Published

February 26, 2013

NIJ congratulates Kristen M. Zgoba, winner of the 2013 Peter P. Lejins Research Award, for her steadfast commitment to criminal justice research.

Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships

Beyond the Sentence - Understanding Collateral Consequences

The Partners in the Sexual Assault Kit Project

Date Published

February 26, 2013

Evaluating Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs

NIJ FY 13 Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Closing Date

May 23, 2013

Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women: Section 904 Task Force

Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women: Primary Data Collection

Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women: Secondary Data Analysis

Tribal Crime and Justice Research