Description
NIJ performs research in and evaluations of many specific types of crime prevention strategies — from more traditional crime, such as gun crime and child abuse, to emerging crime, such as identity theft and human trafficking.
On this page, find links to articles, awards, events, publications, and multimedia related to crime prevention.
Publications and Grant Reports
- Examining the Impact of Permitless Firearm Legislation and COVID-19 on Crime and Arrests in Three Urban Cities
- Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Characteristics Linked to Different Reasons Why Youth Decide Not to Disclose
- Social network analysis as a tool for understanding mass shooting prevention: A case study of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Related Programs and Practices from CrimeSolutions
- Program Profile: Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program (Seattle, Washington)
- Practice Profile: Incarceration-based Therapeutic Communities for Adults
- Program Profile: Ceasefire (Oakland, Calif.)
- Program Profile: Operation Peacekeeper (Stockton, Calif.)
- Program Profile: Detention Diversion Advocacy Program (DDAP)
Awards
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The first step in knowing what to do is knowing what works … and what hasn’t.