Trial Courts
SENTENCING COUNCILS - A STUDY OF SENTENCE DISPARITY AND ITS REDUCTION
Executive Summary: National Institute of Justice’s Multisite Evaluation of Veterans Treatment Courts
Effectiveness of Drug Treatment Courts: Evidence From A Randomized Trial
Understanding the potential for Multidisciplinary Threat Assessment Teams to prevent terrorism: Conducting a formative evaluation of the MassBay Threat Assessment Team
Means-Based Fining: Views of American Trial Court Judges
Client Games: Defense Attorney Perspectives on Their Relations With Criminal Clients
Punishing Youth Homicide Offenders in Philadelphia
Social Loafing on the Bench: The Case of Calendars and Caseloads
North Carolina's Determinate Sentencing Legislation
Analyzing Court Delay-Reduction Programs - Why Do Some Succeed?
Lawyers to the Rescue - The Use of Judicial Adjuncts
Protecting Against Stress and Trauma - NIJ Research for the Real World Seminar
At this Research for the Real World seminar, NIJ brought together law enforcement practitioners and leading researchers in the field of stress to discuss the current research evidence and practical benefits of targeted stress-management interventions and how they can promote officer mental wellness.
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Protecting Against Stress & Trauma: Research Lessons for Law Enforcement– Defining the Problem
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Just Wrong: The Aftermath of Wrongful Convictions
The strength of our criminal justice system depends on its ability to convict the guilty and clear the innocent. But we know that innocent people are sometimes wrongfully convicted and the guilty remain free to victimize others. The consequences of a wrongful conviction are far-reaching for the wrongfully convicted and the survivors and victims of the original crimes.
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What Works in Offender Supervision
This NIJ Conference Panel highlights findings from NIJ projects that evaluated strategies to enhance the supervision of offenders in the community. Researchers discuss the effectiveness of fair, swift and certain sanctions for high-risk probationers in the Hawaii HOPE program. Panelists also provide empirical evidence on the effectiveness of electronic monitoring — including the use of GPS tracking — for medium- and high-risk offenders on supervision and upon completion of their supervision sentence.