Victims of crime
The Self-Determination and Mental Health of Youth in Residential Placement: Patterns of Risk and Resilience in Links with Prior Abuse and Victimization
Factors Promoting Risk or Resilience Among Polyvictimized Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Prostitution, Human Trafficking, and Victim Identification: Establishing an Evidence-Based Foundation for a Specialized Criminal Justice Response
Evaluation of Safe Harbor Laws and Their Impact on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
Evaluation of a Service Provision Program for Victims of Sex Trafficking
National Elder Mistreatment Study: 5 Year Followup of Victims and Matched Non-Victims
The Age-Graded Consequences of Victimization
Longitudinal Follow-up in the National Survey for Teen Relationships and Violence (STRiV2)
The Effect of Prior Police Contact on Victimization Reporting: Results from the Police Public Contact and National Crime Victimization Surveys
Assessing and Enhancing the Utility of NIBRS Data
Enhancing the Safety of Elderly Victims After the Close of an APS Investigation
Correlates of Reasons for Not Reporting Rape to Police: Results From a National Telephone Household Probability Sample of Women With Forcible or Drug-or-Alcohol Facilitated/Incapacitated Rape
Police Departments' Use of the Lethality Assessment Program: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation
Situational Crime Prevention at Specific Locations in Community Context: Place and Neighborhood Effects
Teen Dating Violence: Building a Research Program Through Collaborative Insights
Translational Research on Child Neglect: Progress and Future Needs
Evaluating the Elder Abuse Forensic Center Model
Documentation of Resident to Resident Elder Mistreatment in Residential Care Facilities
NIJ FY 14 Evaluation of the Office for Victims of Crime Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth State Demonstration Project
In collaboration with the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), NIJ seeks proposals to conduct an evaluation of OVC's Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth State Demonstration Project. The OVC Vision 21 Systems of Care Demonstration Project will fund two State-level demonstration sites that will bring a broad network of relevant systems and professionals together to establish a comprehensive and coordinated...
Notifying Sexual Assault Victims When Evidence Is Tested
Interview with Dr. Noël Busch-Armendariz, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Watch Dr. Noël Busch-Armendariz discuss what Houston is learning about the role of notifying sexual assault victims when their rape kits are DNA-tested. In talking about the nationwide implications of the Houston action-research project, Dr. Busch-Armendariz says that the nation is ready to move beyond a focus solely on kit-testing to the larger discussion of how to tackle the complicated issue of sexual assault.
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The Importance of Victim Cooperation in Solving Sexual Assaults
Interview with Dr. Bill Wells, Ph.D., Sam Houston State University
Watch Bill Wells discuss the problem of unsubmitted sexual assault kits in Houston, including some lessons learned to-date. Dr. Wells also talks about the crucial role of victim cooperation in solving sexual assault cases and the Houston Police Department's hiring of a justice advocate to improve investigations.
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Houston Creates a Hotline, Hires Justice Advocate to Help Solve Sexual Assaults
Watch Caitlin Sulley discuss how action-research team in Houston went about making the action-research project investigating unsubmitted sexual assault kits in Houston as victim-oriented as possible. Ms. Sulley talks about the creation of a hotline for sexual assault victims to call and the police department's hiring of a justice advocate.
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NIJ FY 14 Evaluation of the Office for Victims of Crime Service, Support & Justice: A Strategy to Enhance Law Enforcement Response to Victims Demonstration Project
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for an evaluation of the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Service, Support & Justice: A Strategy to Enhance Law Enforcement Response to Victims (ELERV) Demonstration Project. ELERV is a strategy developed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in conjunction with OVC to help law enforcement agencies implement agencywide changes in how law enforcement interacts with...