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Bi-Level Framework for Understanding Prisoner Victimization

Journal

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

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Date Published

March 2014

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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

An Attractive Target: Do Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness Shape Victimization Risks in Women's Prisons?

Journal

Victims & Offenders

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Date Published

May 2024

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Social Support, Victimization, and Stress in a Women’s Prison: The Role of in-Prison Friendship for Reducing Perceptions of Stress

Journal

Women & Criminal Justice

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Date Published

2023

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Poly-Victimization Risk in Prison: The Influence of Individual and Institutional Factors

Journal

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

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Date Published

September 2014

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Violent and Victimized in the Male Prison

Journal

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

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Date Published

1991

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Crime and Justice Atlas 2001 Update

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Date Published

2001

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Statistics

Pathways to Prison: Impact of Victimization in the Lives of Incarcerated Women

Journal

Violence Against Women

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Date Published

December 2008

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Race Group Differences in Prison Victimization Experiences

Journal

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Date Published

October 2012

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Using General Strain Theory To Explore the Effects of Prison Victimization Experiences on Later Offending and Substance Use

Journal

Prison Journal

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Date Published

December 2014

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Just Science Podcast: Just the Facts About Campus Sexual Assault

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Date Published

June 2017

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Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Interview

Understanding Incarceration and Re-Entry Experiences of Female Inmates and their Children: The Women''s Prison Inmate Networks Study (WO-PINS)

2016-MU-MU-0011

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2016

$685,857

Translating Research Into Practice: Improving Safety in Women's Facilities

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Date Published

November 2008

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Prison Experience and Reentry: Examining the Impact of Victimization on Coming Home

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Date Published

May 2010

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NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)