Violent offenders
Early Childhood Victimization Among Incarcerated Adult Male Felons
Implementation of Prisoner Reentry Programs: Findings From the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative Multi-Site Evaluation
Peers and Gun Use Among Urban Adolescent Males: An Examination of Social Embeddedness
Using General Strain Theory To Explore the Effects of Prison Victimization Experiences on Later Offending and Substance Use
Supervision Regimes, Risk, and Official Reactions to Parolee Deviance
Three-Year Reincarceration Outcomes for In-Prison Therapeutic Community Treatment in Texas
Preventing Assassination: Secret Service Exceptional Case Study Project
Community Notification and Education, April 2001
Advancing the Federal Research Agenda on Violence Against Women
Targeting Federal Resources on Recidivists - An Empirical View
Crime, Punishment, and Stake in Conformity: Legal and Informal Control of Domestic Violence
Youth Violence in Boston: Gun Markets, Serious Youth Offenders, and a Use-Reduction Strategy
Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Focused Deterrence in New Orleans: A Documentation of Changes in Homicides and Firearm Recoveries
Understanding the Link Between Race/Ethnicity, Drug Offending, and Juvenile Court Outcomes
Incarceration and Desistance: Evidence from a Natural Policy Experiment
Men Who Murder Their Families: What the Research Tells Us
Improving Access to Services for Female Offenders Returning to the Community
NIJ Journal Issue No. 258
Reforming New Orleans' Criminal Justice System: The Role of Data and Research
With its criminal justice system in disarray following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans invited the Vera Institute of Justice to examine the city's court and jail operations. For five years, Vera has been tracking arrest-to-first-appearance time, custodial arrests versus summonses, the granting of pretrial release, and many other decision-making points. Based on analysis of these data, Vera is making policy recommendations to assist with the implementation of new procedures and to ensure performance monitoring.
Gang Membership Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIJ collaborated on a book that focuses on promising principles for gang membership prevention. This NIJ Conference Panel discusses the risk and protective factors that influence gang membership as well as efforts to reduce such factors. Panelists also explored the direction of gang research for the future.
What Works in Probation and Parole
How can we prevent reoffending and reduce costs? Research points to a number of solutions. At the Tuesday plenary, Judge Steven Alm from Hawaii will describe his successes with hard-core drug offenders. “Swift and sure” is his motto. West Virginia Cabinet Secretary James W. Spears will discuss the issues from his state's perspective, and Adam Gelb, Director of the Pew Charitable Trust's Public Safety Performance Project, will lend a national overview.