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Improving Sexual Assault Kit Outcomes

Date Published

September 12, 2024

Researchers have identified connections between the development of a CODIS-eligible DNA profile and attributes associated with sexual assault victims and assault characteristics.

Examining Financial Fraud Against Older Adults

Building Knowledge About Victim Services

Victim Cooperation in Intimate Partner Sexual Assault Cases: A Mixed Methods Examination

Date Published

2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Sexual assault disclosure by college women at historically black colleges and universities and predominantly white institutions

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Sexual Assault in Alaska

Date Published

2009

Publication Type

Presentation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

A Typology of Civilians Shot and Killed by US Police: a Latent Class Analysis of Firearm Legal Intervention Homicide in the 2014-2015 National Violent Death Reporting System

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Fatal and Non-Fatal Intimate Partner and Family Violence Against Older Women: An Exploration of Age and Police Response to Inform Research, Policy and Practice

15PNIJ-21-GG-02801-REVA

Open

Funding First Awarded

2021

$195,135

Court Decision-Making in Domestic Violence Cases: An Analysis of the Case Processing Pipeline in South Carolina

15PNIJ-21-GG-02802-REVA

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2021

$357,234

Effect of Prior Police Contact on Victimization Reporting Results From the Police-Public Contact and National Crime Victimization Surveys

Date Published

June 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Impact of Offenders Leaving the Scene on the Police Decision to Arrest in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence

Date Published

September 2013

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Prosecuting Sexual Assault: A Comparison of Charging Decisions in Sexual Assault Cases Involving Strangers, Acquaintances, and Intimate Partners

Date Published

September 2001

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Determination of Victim Credibility by Adult and Juvenile Sexual Assault Investigators

Date Published

February 2015

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Prosecuting Sexual Assault: A Comparison of Charging Decisions in Sexual Assault Cases Involving Strangers, Acquaintances, and Intimate Partners (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See NCJ-199701)

Date Published

2004

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Prosecutorial Justification for Sexual Assault Case Rejection: Guarding the Gateway to Justice

Date Published

2001

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Sexual Assault Case Outcomes: Disentangling the Overlapping Decisions of Police and Prosecutors

Date Published

February 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Police Interactions With Victims of Violence

Date Published

September 2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Formative Evaluation of a City-Wide Hospital-Based Victims Services Intervention in Chicago

2019-V3-GX-0004

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$493,017

Sexual Victimization in Prisons: Moving Toward Elimination - Expert Chat Webinar, NIJ and Harvard's Government Innovators Network

Date Published

February 2008

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis, Issue Overview

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Improving the Investigation and Prosecution of State and Local Human Trafficking Cases

Date Published

September 2016

Agencies

NIJ

Non-fatal Intimate Partner Violence Against LGB Individuals: Exploring Victims' Use of Formal and Informal Services Through Analysis of Existing Data Sources

2016-V3-GX-0008

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$134,520

Understanding the Impact of School Safety on the High School Transition Experience: From Etiology to Prevention

2015-CK-BX-0003

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$849,281

Failure to Appear: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Victims Experience with the Juvenile Justice System and their Readiness to Change

2015-VF-GX-0064

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$623,607

The Effect of Prior Police Contact on Victimization Reporting: Results from the Police Public Contact and National Crime Victimization Surveys

2014-R2-CX-0022

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2014

$38,044

Exploratory Research on the Impact of the Growing Oil Industry in North Dakota and Montana on Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking

2013-ZD-CX-0072

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$498,418