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U.S. Partners with Kenya Wildlife Service to Protect Wildlife

September 2015

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Counterterrorism and the National Institute of Justice have partnered with the Kenya Wildlife Service to provide low cost aircraft to assist in the protection of Kenya wildlife. NIJ will take the lessons learned in Kenya to apply to state, local and tribal law enforcement in the United States. The project is funded through the U.S. Department of State counter-terrorism fund.

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Reduction of Backlogged Cases to Improve the Timeliness of Forensic Results for Submitting Agencies in the State of Wyoming

2015-CD-BX-0013

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$63,705

Mortgage Fraud, Foreclosures and Neighborhood Decline Meeting, March 31 to April 1, 2009

Date Published

April 2009

Publication Type

Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

Policing Human Trafficking: Cultural Blinders and Organizational Barriers

Date Published

May 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Final Report to NIJ: American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD) Data Collection on Forensic Service Providers

Date Published

September 2014

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Biological Evidence Preservation: Considerations for Policy Makers

Date Published

April 2015

Publication Type

Standard, Report (Technical), Report (Technical Assistance)

Agencies

NIJ

Is Burglary a Crime of Violence? An Analysis of National Data 1998-2007

Date Published

January 2015

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

What You Need To Know About Body-Worn Cameras: A Primer

Date Published

December 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Natural Experiment in Reform: Analyzing Drug Policy Change in New York City, Executive Summary

Date Published

October 2014

Publication Type

Report (Summary), Report (Grant Sponsored), Legislation/Policy Analysis

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Natural Experiment in Reform: Analyzing Drug Policy Change In New York City - Abstract

Date Published

October 2014

Publication Type

Report (Summary), Report (Grant Sponsored), Legislation/Policy Analysis

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Natural Experiment in Reform: Analyzing Drug Policy Change in New York City, Final Report

Date Published

November 2014

Publication Type

Report (Grant Sponsored), Legislation/Policy Analysis

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

FY 2014 NIJ DNA Arrestee Collection Process Implementation Grants Program - Rhode Island Department of Health

2014-DN-BX-K126

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$190,980

Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program

2011-MU-BX-K063

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$3,750,000

Integrating Improved Assessments of Financial Judgment: Conceptual and Measurement Advances

2014-MU-CX-0001

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$468,181

Evaluation of Safe Harbor Laws and Their Impact on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

2014-JF-FX-0002

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2018

$499,977

Next-generation Sequencing (NGS) Feasibility and Guidance Study for Forensic DNA.

2014-DN-BX-K023

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$824,995

State Laws on Child Custody Related to Judges' and Custody Evaluators' Recommendations in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence

2014-IJ-CX-0018

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$37,532

Effect of Collateral Consequence Laws on State Rates of Returns to Prison

Date Published

2013

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Legislation/Policy Description, Legislation/Policy Analysis

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Cutting Edge of Technology: Enhancing Local and State Law Enforcement's Understanding and Use of Emerging Technology, Project Closeout Report 2005-2007

Date Published

January 2011

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Screening for Human Trafficking: Guidelines for Administering the Trafficking Victim Identification Tool (TVIT)

Date Published

June 2014

Publication Type

Instructional Material

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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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Building Bridges Between Police Researchers and Practitioners: Agents of Change in a Complex World

Date Published

December 2013

Publication Type

Survey, Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

NIJ Ultra-High Speed Apps Challenge: Using Current Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Operations

Challenge Closed

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About the Ultra-High Speed Apps Challenge

NIJ created the Ultra-High Speed (UHS) Application Challenge to encourage software developers and public safety professionals to take advantage of public domain data and UHS bandwidth systems with apps...

Assessing the Transnational Criminal Capacity of MS-13 in the U.S. and El Salvador

2013-R2-CX-0048

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$671,615

The Interactions and Impacts of State DNA Database Laws

2013-IJ-CX-0001

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$226,496

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