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Criminal Justice Interventions for Offenders With Mental Illness: Evaluation of Mental Health Courts in Bronx and Brooklyn, New York, Executive Summary

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Date Published

February 2012

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Program/Project Evaluation

The social organization of masculine violence in nighttime leisure scenes

Journal

Criminal Justice Studies

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Date Published

June 2015

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Continuum of Sexual Violence: Women’s Accounts of Victimization in Urban Nightlife

Journal

Feminist Criminology

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Date Published

March 2012

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Declining Significance of Delinquent Labels in Disadvantaged Urban Communities

Journal

Sociological Forum

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Date Published

July 2008

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Advances in Spatial Models for Urban Crime

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Date Published

August 2022

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Thesis/Dissertation

An ethnographic adolescent life-course of social capital within urban communities, schools and families and the effects on serious youth violence among young at-risk African-American males

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Date Published

2003

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Thesis/Dissertation

Youth, Guns, and Violence in Urban America

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Date Published

1992

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Urban Black Adolescents' Victimization Experiences: The Moderating Role of Family Factors on Internalizing and Academic Outcomes

Journal

Journal of Community Psychology

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Date Published

June 2024

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Prevalence and Nature of Victimization among First Semester Students at Urban, Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)

Journal

The Journal of Higher Education

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Date Published

August 2024

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Substance Use Patterns among Early Adolescents in an Urban Community: Associations with Risk and Promotive Factors

Journal

Journal of Early Adolescence

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Date Published

April 2024

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Urban Adolescents' Exposure to Violence and Racial Discrimination: Gender Differences in Coping and Mental Health

Journal

Journal of Child and Family Studies

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Date Published

March 2024

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Workflow to Facilitate the Detection of New Psychoactive Substances and Drugs of Abuse in Influent Urban Wastewater

Journal

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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Date Published

May 2024

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Tap water isotope ratios reflect urban water system structure and dynamics across a semiarid metropolitan area

Journal

Water Resources Research

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Date Published

2016

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Structural Discrimination and Social Stigma Among Individuals Incarcerated for Sexual Offenses: Reentry Across the Rural-Urban Continuum

Journal

Criminology

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Date Published

2019

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Rural decline and policing of cannabis legalisation in Washington

Journal

Policing & Society

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Date Published

2022

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Evaluation of the Olweus Bully Prevention Program in an Urban School System in the USA

Journal

Prevention Science

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Date Published

2018

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Violence in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Schools in Pennsylvania

Journal

Journal of School Nursing

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Date Published

2018

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

A Longitudinal Examination of the Influence of Sex and Race on Sentencing Outcomes in Florida's Rural and Urban Counties

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Date Published

December 2019

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Thesis/Dissertation

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Beliefs About Fighting and Their Relations to Urban Adolescents' Frequency of Aggression and Victimization: Evaluation of the Beliefs About Fighting Scale

Journal

Journal of Early Adolescence

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Date Published

2019

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NIJ-Sponsored

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Program/Project Evaluation

Longitudinal Relations Between Trauma-related Psychological Distress and Physical Aggression Among Urban Early Adolescents

Journal

Journal of Clinical Psychology

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Date Published

2019

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Evaluation of an Intensive Truancy Reduction Program (ACT) Within Communities In Schools® (CIS)

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Date Published

October 2020

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Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

The Characteristics and Prevalence of Agitation in an Urban County Emergency Department

Journal

Annals of Emergency Medicine

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Date Published

October 2018

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

Urban water – a new frontier in isotope hydrology

Journal

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies

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Date Published

2016

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Buffering Effects of Racial Discrimination on School Engagement: The Role of Culturally Responsive Teachers and Caring School Police

Journal

Journal of School Health

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Date Published

December 2020

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

NIJ-Funded Research on Firearms Violence in Urban Cities Advancing Scientific Evidence to Inform Practice

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December 2021

In this full thematic panel, renowned experts will present a series of papers summarizing the newest findings of NIJ-funded research projects on criminal offenses with firearms in urban areas. Researchers used various criminological and other theories, including routine activity theory, socio-ecological and socio-environmental perspectives, and advanced mixed-study methods, including surveys and spatio-temporal designs, to produce scientific evidence to inform practice.