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Environmental Scan of Criminal Justice Responses to Justice-Involved Young Adults

October 2016

The informational webinar will discuss the results of the recently published Environmental Scan of Developmentally Appropriate Criminal Justice Responses to Justice-Involved Young Adults produced by NIJ. It will provide a launching point for us to connect with others doing similar work and plan for future meetings to discuss research gaps and research needs of those providing programming to justice-involved young adults.

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Establishing a National Institute of Justice Research Test & Evaluation Center: Continuation

2013-MU-CX-K111

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$3,500,000

Continuation of Dating it Safe: A Longitudinal Study of Teen Dating Violence

2012-WG-BX-0005

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$117,891

The Evaluation of Alternative Sample Preparation Techniques for Use in Forensic Laboratories

2016-DN-BX-0192

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$787,719

Social Media As a Platform for Crafting Gender-Specific Interventions for the Domestic Radicalization of Women

2016-ZA-BX-K002

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$716,065

Examining the Short and Long-term Impact of Mass Violence in Communities

2015-VF-GX-K113

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$1,750,000

Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism in Montgomery County

August 2016

Darryl McSwain, Assistant Chief at Montgomery County Police Department, discusses the “Montgomery County Model” to prevent domestic radicalization and violence extremism. This included working with schools support youth before they take part in negative behavior and working with researchers to develop culturally-sensitive prevention programs that are effective.

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Strengthening Policing Science at the National Institute of Justice

Date Published

August 2016

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Legislation/Policy Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Radicalization and Violent Extremism - Lessons Learned From Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. Meeting Summary, July 28-30, 2015

Date Published

July 2015

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Issue Overview, Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

Environmental Scan of Developmentally Appropriate Criminal Justice Responses to Justice-Involved Young Adults

Date Published

June 2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Issue Overview

Agencies

NIJ

Action Research and the Community to Criminal Justice Feedback Loop - Interview With Edward Davis

Date Published

June 2011

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Presentation (Multimedia), Interview, Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

Role of Technology in Peer Harassment: Does It Amplify Harm for Youth?

Date Published

June 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Role of Technology in Improving K-12 School Safety

Date Published

January 2016

Series

NIJ Identifying the Highest Priority Criminal Justice Needs

Publication Type

Report (Technical), Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

TECHBeat, March 2016

Date Published

March 2016

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Report (Technical), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Community-Level Efforts to Prevent Violent Extremism

March 2016

Series

Research for the Real World

In this video three internationally-renowned experts from the research and practitioner arenas discuss how community policing can be used to prevent violent extremism and reduce violence within communities.

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Social Media and Police Leadership: Lessons From Boston

Date Published

April 2014

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ

Bridging Research and Practice to Advance Juvenile Justice and Safety

2015-MU-MU-K002

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$500,000

Examination of the Short-and Long-term Impact of School Shootings

2015-VF-GX-K113

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$1,254,975

Social Learning and Social Control in the Off and Online Pathways to Hate and Extremist Violence

2015-ZA-BX-0004

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$386,194

Building a Safer Tomorrow: A Process Evaluation of Grand Forks County's Defending Childhood Initiative

Date Published

June 2015

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Chicago Public Schools's Connect and Redirect to Respect (CRR) Program to use social media monitoring to identify and connect youth to behavioral interventions.

2014-CK-BX-0002

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$2,197,178

Mapping Transnational Gang Activity

2012-R2-CX-0028

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$79,982

A Process and Impact Evaluation of The Veterans Moving Forward Program: Best Practices, Outcomes, and Cost-Effectiveness

2014-IJ-CX-0103

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$334,360

Consequences of a Prison Record for Employment: How Do Race, Ethnicity & Gender Factor In?

February 2014

Scientific studies have long documented the negative impact of a prison record on a person's ability to find employment. But what is the impact when gender and race/ethnicity are factored in? Also, most jobs are now advertised online — so how does this affect the ability of former prisoners to find a job?

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Optimizing Criminal Justice Use of Social Media in the "Web 3.0" Environment: Addressing the Problem of Human Sex Trafficking

2013-IJ-CX-K009

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$593,715