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
Tribal courts
Importance of culture in measuring tribal crime seriousness: scoping review of crime seriousness indices
NCJ Number
308562
Date Published
2024
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Tribal Crime, Justice, and Safety
NCJ Number
304974
Date Published
June 2022
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Publication Link
Tribal Crime, Justice, and Safety, Part 1
June 2022
Series
Research indicates that Native American persons experience crime victimization at higher rates than non-Native people. Furthermore, the unique position of American Indian and Alaska Native tribes as both sovereign nations and domestic dependents of the U.S. creates jurisdictional complexities in responding to crime, justice, and safety. Senior social and behavioral scientist Christine (Tina) Crossland discusses NIJ’s research on these topics, especially on the prevention of violence towards American Indians and Alaska Natives. Communications Assistant Stacy Lee Reynolds hosts.
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Audio file
Booker and Beyond Analyzing Sentencing Reform and Exploring New Research Directions
January 2022
This webinar features a discussion of previously published research on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 Booker decision - which effectively transformed the United States Sentencing Guidelines from a mandatory, to an advisory, system. The presentation will address selected research findings from the last 15 years. Individual participants will briefly review their previous research findings with particular attention paid to the analytic methods used.
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Census of Tribal Justice Agencies in American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Jurisdictions (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Includes data on the number of law enforcement agencies and officers; characteristics of tribal courts and their caseloads; types of available criminal sanctions; and criminal justice statistics data collection and sharing capacity. The census collected data from nearly 350 tribes in the continental U.S. and is the first comprehensive effort to identify the range of justice agencies operating in tribal jurisdictions, the services those agencies...
Tribal Justice, Tribal Court: Strengthening Tribal Justice Systems Using Restorative Approaches
2019-75-CX-0013
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$99,969
Building Tribal-Researcher Capacity to Inform Data-Driven Practices, Technology, and Tribal Justice
2018-75-CX-0012
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2018
$150,752
Drug Treatment Courts
NCJ Number
238527
Date Published
May 2025
Agencies
BJA,
NIJ,
OJJDP
Publication Type
Factsheet
Publication Link
Identifying the Needs and Challenges of Criminal Justice Agencies in Small, Rural, Tribal, and Border Areas
NCJ Number
250366
Date Published
2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Technical Assistance),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Publication Link
Indigent Defense: International Perspectives and Research Needs
NCJ Number
235895
Journal
Date Published
October 2011
Agencies
NIJ
Series
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Process and Outcome Evaluations of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Drug Court
NCJ Number
231166
Date Published
December 2005
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Publication Link
In Brief: Indian Country Research
NCJ Number
229886
Journal
Date Published
April 2010
Agencies
NIJ
Series
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Process and Outcome Evaluations of the Hualapai Wellness Court
NCJ Number
231165
Date Published
December 2005
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Publication Link
Lessons Learned in Implementing the First Four Tribal Wellness Courts
NCJ Number
231168
Date Published
December 2005
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Instructional Material
Publication Link
Process and Outcome Evaluations in Four Tribal Wellness Courts
NCJ Number
231167
Date Published
December 2005
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Report (Summary),
Program/Project Evaluation
Publication Link
Process and Outcome Evaluations of the Fort Peck Tribes Community Wellness Court
NCJ Number
231162
Date Published
December 2005
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Publication Link
Process and Outcome Evaluations of the Blackfeet Alternative Court
NCJ Number
231161
Date Published
December 2005
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Publication Link