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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?

Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy

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

TECHBeat, Summer 2013

Date Published

July 2013

Publication Type

Best Practice/State-of-the-Art Review

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

TechBeat, Winter 2013

Date Published

January 2013

Publication Type

Publication

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

TECHBeat, Fall 2012

Date Published

September 2012

Publication Type

Issue Overview, Instructional Material

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Role of Social Networks in the Evolution of Al Qaeda-inspired Violent Extremism in the United States, 1993-2013.

2012-ZA-BX-0006

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2012

$459,969

Understanding Youth's Use of Technology to Perpetrate Dating Violence, Stalking and Sexual Harassment and Victimization

2010-WG-BX-0003

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2010

$367,429

Research Meetings and Workshops

NIJ learns from the people who work day-to-day with the issues. We sponsor meetings, workshops, and working groups that bring together researchers, policymakers, technologists, and practitioners.

These meetings generate a rich exchange of ideas. They guide future research and help ensure that NIJ's research, development and evaluation activities meet real-world needs.

Review the summaries or transcripts available for many of these meetings:

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