Social sciences

Social Science Research on Forensic Science: The Story Behind One of NIJ's Newest Research Portfolios

Date Published

July 2015

Series

NIJ Journal

Publication Type

Program/Project Description, Grants and Funding

Agencies

NIJ

Potential of Blind Collaborative Justice: Testing the Impact of Expert Blinding and Consensus Building on the Validity of Forensic Testimony

Date Published

August 2015

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Technical), Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Summary), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Social Science Research on Forensic Science Topical Working Group Meeting, January 2013

Date Published

January 2013

Publication Type

Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

Social Science Research on Forensic Science: The Story Behind One of NIJ's Newest Research Portfolios

Evaluation of the Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement Program

Date Published

May 2012

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Content Analysis of Youth Internet Safety Programs: Are Effective Prevention Strategies Being Used?

Date Published

December 2014

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Systematic Review of Effective Youth Prevention Education: Implications for Internet Safety Education

Date Published

December 2014

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Literature Review

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Life Fast, Die Young: Anticipated Early Death And Adolescent Violence And Gang Involvement

2014-IJ-CX-0008

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$25,869

Testing and Evaluating Body Worn Video Technology in the Los Angeles Police Department

2014-R2-CX-0101

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$1,061,300

NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Closing Date

December 24, 2014

NIJ is seeking proposals for funding under the Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program in social and behavioral sciences. This program provides awards for research on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics to accredited universities that offer research-based doctoral degrees. NIJ invests in doctoral education by supporting universities that sponsor students who demonstrate the potential to successfully complete doctoral degree programs in disciplines relevant to...

Strengthening the National Institute of Justice

Date Published

January 2010

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Forensic Aspects of Elder Abuse

Event Dates

May 31, 2006, 12:00 am

Location

Online

Event Type

Conference

Registration Status

Not Required

Gang Membership Prevention

Event Dates

May 31, 2006, 12:00 am

Location

Online

Event Type

Conference

Registration Status

Not Required

How Collaboration Between Researchers and Police Chiefs Can Improve the Quality of Sexual Assault Investigations: A Look at Los Angeles

Event Dates

June 19, 2007, 12:00 am

Location

Online

Event Type

Conference

Registration Status

Not Required

10th Anniversary of 9/11: Advances in Social Sciences

Event Dates

June 19, 2007, 12:00 am

Location

Online

Event Type

Conference

Registration Status

Not Required

State Responses to Mass Incarceration

Event Dates

June 14, 2007, 12:00 am

Location

Online

Event Type

Conference

Registration Status

Not Required

Translational Criminology and the Science of Community

Event Dates

June 14, 2007, 12:00 am

Location

Online

Event Type

Conference

Registration Status

Not Required

Translating Science: A Town Hall on the Challenges

Event Dates

June 14, 2007, 12:00 am

Location

Online

Event Type

Conference

Registration Status

Not Required

Children as Citizens: Engaging Adolescents in Research on Exposure to Violence

Event Dates

January 25, 2011, 12:00 am

Location

Online

Event Type

Seminar

Registration Status

Not Required

Series

Research for the Real World

Evaluating the Effect of Holistic Indigent Defense Services on Case Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in the Bronx

2013-IJ-CX-0027

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$334,998

Elder Financial Exploitation Victimization: Indentifying Unique Risk Profiles and Factors to Enhance Detection, Prevention and Intervention

2013-IJ-CX-0050

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$387,736

Healthy Officers Are Safer Officers: The Nexus Between Performance & Health

Date Published

September 2012

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Agencies

NIJ

Predicting Erroneous Convictions: A Social Science Approach to Miscarriages of Justice

Date Published

December 2012

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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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Terrorism Research Before and After 9/11

December 2012

In this interview conducted at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Conference 2011, Gary LaFree, Ph.D., Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism, University of Maryland, discusses the state of domestic and transnational terrorism research in the social and behavioral sciences prior to and following September 11, 2011.

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