30 Years of the Violence Against Women Act: Endurance, Expansion, and the Next Era
Date Published
January 14, 2025
Summary of a plenary panel from the 2024 NIJ Research Conference
Statute of limitations
30 Years of the Violence Against Women Act: Endurance, Expansion, and the Next Era - 2024 NIJ Research Conference
September 2024
Congress first passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 1994. Since then, the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) has invested several billion dollars to support national, state, and local programs and to advance policies and practices to reduce domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and increase access to safety, services, and justice for survivors. Over the same period, the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) has made similar investments, and VAWA, OVW and OVC have all supported NIJ in investing extensively in related research.
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Tribal Crime, Justice, and Safety (Part 2)
July 2022
Series
Stacy Lee Reynolds and Christine (Tina) Crossland continue their discussion of tribal crime, justice, and safety, including how Native American persons experience crime victimization at higher rates than non-Native people and the jurisdictional complexities in responding to tribal crime, justice, and safety. Read the transcript.
Listen to the first half of Stacy and Tina’s discussion.
Long-Term Memory in Adults Exposed to Childhood Violence: Remembering Genital Contact Nearly 20 Years Later
Date Published
2019
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Developing Empirically Informed Policies for Sexual Assault Kit DNA Testing: Is It Too Late to Test Kits Beyond the Statute of Limitations?
Date Published
March 2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Opening the Black Box of NIBIN
July 2014
Series
Bill King discusses the operations of the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN), a program through which firearms examiners at state and local crime laboratories compare tool marks on fired bullets or cartridges found at a crime scene to digitized images of ballistic evidence in a nationwide database.
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A View From the Street: Police Leaders Share Their Perspectives on Urgent Policy and Research Issues
June 2010
Sponsored by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and its Research Advisory Committee (RAC), this panel unites law enforcement leaders from across the country to discuss their policy and research concerns. Charles Wellford, IACP RAC co-chair and University of Maryland professor, will facilitate the panel. Presenters will discuss urgent policing issues that merit ongoing research, law enforcement and academic research partnerships, and how research can and does affect agency policy and operations.
A Conversation With Natasha Alexenko, Founder of Natasha's Justice Project
September 2016
Natasha Alexenko tells her story as a sexual assault survivor and advocate. Building from her presentation at the National Sexual Assault Policy Symposium in September 2016, she also speaks about the need for a multidisciplinary approach to improve sexual assault response and highlights NIJ’s role in supporting these efforts.
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Unsubmitted Sexual Assault Kits in Houston, TX: Case Characteristics, Forensic Testing Results, and the Investigation of CODIS Hits, Executive Summary
Date Published
March 2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Summary),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Performing an Audit of Sexual Assault Evidence in Police Custody
Date Published
March 2016
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Instructional Material
Agencies
NIJ
Creating a Plan To Test a Large Number of Sexual Assault Kits
Date Published
March 2016
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Instructional Material
Agencies
NIJ
National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence Proceedings Meeting 5: Hilton Hotel Santa Fe, New Mexico May 7 & 8, 1999
Date Published
May 1999
Publication Type
Conference Material
Agencies
NIJ
National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence Proceedings Meeting 4: Hotel Adolphus Dallas, Texas February 28 - March 1, 1999
Date Published
March 1999
Publication Type
Conference Material
Agencies
NIJ
FY 2014 Indianapolis Solving Cold Cases with DNA
2014-DN-BX-K084
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2014
$255,869
The Alameda County (California) Sheriff''s Office Collaborating with the National Institute of Justice to Perform Necessary Investigative Research to Identify Cold Cases That Can Be Solved with DNA.
2014-DN-BX-K065
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2014
$267,952
Detroit SAK Action Research Project
2011-DN-BX-0001
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2012
$515,000
The Detroit Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Action Research Project
2011-DN-BX-0001
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2011
$800,000
Killing Time: The Application of John Doe Indictments to Keep Cases Warm
Date Published
April 2007
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Squad Solving Cold Cases With DNA
2007-DN-BX-K024
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2007
$198,581
Final Technical Report: Habeas Litigation in U.S. District Courts: An Empirical Study of Habeas Corpus Cases Filed by State Prisoners Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (Executive Summary)
Date Published
2007
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Evaluation of the processing of habeas corpus cases in US District Courts, Crime and Justice Research, National Institute of Justice.
2006-IJ-CX-0020
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2006
$257,747
John Doe Indictment Project
2004-RC-CX-K014
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2004
$347,725