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              Page3Webinar: NIJ Research Assistantship Program Informational Webinar
    
        Download the slide presentation.This recorded webinar, originally held September 28, 2023, provides information on NIJ’s Research Assistantship Program, which offers highly qualified doctoral students the opportunity to bring their expertise to NIJ to work across offices and program areas to obtain a practical and applied research experience. The program is a research focused professional development opportunity for doctoral students from all academic disciplines. NIJ...Inclusive Research: Engaging People Closest to the Issue Makes for Better Science & Greater Impact; 2023 NIJ Research Conference Plenary
    
        August 2023
      
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            This panel will discuss what inclusive research is, how to conduct it, and what issues and challenges exist about engaging in it. “Inclusive research” has its history as a participatory research method designed to ensure people closest to the issue or problem under study are authentically engaged in the research process rather than simply being “research subjects.” While community-based participatory research has begun to take on greater prominence in the criminal justice realm, such efforts are largely confined to qualitative research inquiries.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyMeet the OJP Science Directors: Nancy La Vigne and Alex Piquero Discuss the Future of Research and Statistics at the 2023 NIJ Research Conference
    
        August 2023
      
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            The directors of the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics reflect on where they see the future of research and statistics and take questions from the audience, prioritizing those from student attendees.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyGender-Based Violence and the Latinx Community
    
        September 2022
      
            In this webinar, a panel of experts will share what the field currently knows about gender-based violence in the Latinx community.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyCurrent State of Knowledge about Stalking and Gender-Based Violence: The Known, Unknown, and Yet To Be Known
    
        February 2022
      
            Nearly one in six of women experience stalking victimization at some point during their life, and most are stalked by someone who they know—typically current or former intimate partners. Given the escalation of violence and potential harm that an individual may commit while stalking someone, it is important to bring more attention to this issue. This brown-bag session highlights a panel of scholars to share what the field currently knows about stalking behaviors and victims, including a focus on intimate partner violence, non-partner relationships, and police response.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyGender-Based Violence and American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
    
        November 2022
      
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            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyNIJ Director La Vigne Outlines NIJ’s Priorities at the American Society of Criminology’s 2022 Annual Meeting
    
        *Director La Vigne participated in the Presidential Panel "Data and Research Priorities in Federal Agencies: Visions for the Future."*

    
NIJ Director La Vigne at LecternNIJ Director La Vigne speaks at ASC 2022
The vital scientific research supporting the nation’s justice system is most impactful when researchers team up with practitioners and community members and take steps to ensure that research findings lead to changes in practice on the ground.

That was the message of Nancy G. La Vigne, Ph.D., director...The Relationship of School Climate With Out-of-School Suspensions
    
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2018
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          NIJ-SponsoredExpanding Research to Examine the Impacts of Forensic Science on the Criminal Justice System
    
        December 2020
      
            In 2004, the National Institute of Justice created the social science research on forensic sciences (SSRFS) research program to explore the impact of forensic sciences on the criminal justice system and the administration of justice. Much of the early research from the SSRFS program focused on DNA processing and the use of DNA in investigations and prosecutions.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyShooting Alone: The Pre-Attack Experiences and Behaviors of U.S. Solo Mass Murderers
    
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May 2017
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          NIJ-SponsoredUsing GPS in Domestic Violence Cases: Lessons From a Study of Pretrial Programs
    
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February 2013
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          NIJ-SponsoredInterviews with NIJ’s American Indian and Alaska Native Travel Scholars
    
        April 2020
      
            NIJ’s American Indian and Alaska Native Travel Scholarship Program Scholars discuss:

Why they applied to the program.
	Which conference they chose to attend and why.
	Why representation of American Indian and Alaska Native is important in the field of criminal justice.
	What conference sessions they chose to attend and which they found most interesting.
	How they want to contribute to the fields of tribal and criminal justice.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyWhite Collar Crime
    
        November 2009
      
            The subprime mortgage industry collapse has led to a record number of foreclosures. In this environment, the interest mortgage fraud has risen, along with questions of how fraud contributed to the crisis. Henry Pontell and Sally Simpson discuss what they have learned about investigating and prosecuting white-collar criminals, the role of corporate ethics in America, and what policymakers and lawyers can learn from evidence of fraud.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyWhy Is the United States the Most Homicidal Nation in the Affluent World?
    
        December 2013
      
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                  Research for the Real World

            Ohio State University Since World War II, the homicide rate in the U.S. has been three to ten times higher than in Canada, Western Europe, and Japan. This, however, has not always been the case. What caused the dramatic change? Dr. Roth discussed how and why rates of different kinds of homicide have varied across time and space over the past 450 years, including an examination of the murder of children by parents or caregivers, intimate partner violence, and homicides among unrelated adults.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyLess Prison, More Police, Less Crime: How Criminology Can Save the States from Bankruptcy
    
        April 2010
      
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                  Research for the Real World

            Professor Lawrence Sherman explains how policing can prevent far more crimes than prison per dollar spent. His analysis of the cost-effectiveness of prison compared to policing suggests that states can cut their total budgets for justice and reduce crime by reallocating their spending on crime: less prison, more police.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyEconomical Crime Control: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Ledger
    
        December 2011
      
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                  Research for the Real World

            The surge in incarceration since 1980 has been fueled in part by the mistaken belief that the population can be divided neatly into "good guys" and "bad guys." In fact, crime rates are not determined by the number of at-large criminals, any more than farm production is determined by the number of farmers. Crime is a choice, a choice that is influenced by available opportunities as much as by character. This perspective, drawn from economic theory, supports a multi-faceted approach to crime control. Dr.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyThe Evaluation of NIJ by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences: NIJ's Response
    
        June 2011
      
            The National Academies conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the National Institute of Justice. This panel provides an overview of the evaluation and NIJ's response to it. NIJ has accepted many of the recommendations in the NRC report, and you will learn what the agency is doing to implement them. A few of the recommendations were challenging and created considerable debate within NIJ. Plans to address these thorny issues also are discussed.John Laub and Robert Sampson Awarded Stockholm Prize
    
        NIJ Director John H. Laub, Ph.D., and his long-time research partner, Robert J. Sampson, Ph.D., of Harvard University, are joint recipients of the 2011 Stockholm Prize in Criminology. They received the award for their research on how and why criminals stop offending. The award winners were announced at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology in San Francisco in November 2010. They will accept...What Is Research and Evaluation Evidence and How Can We Use It?
    
        June 2010
      
            This NIJ Conference Panel will explore the development and use of evidence-based policies, programs and technologies to improve effectiveness and efficiencies related to government. Through casual observation, practices and programs may appear to be effective, but under closer scrutiny the results may look much different.What Constitutes Success? Evaluating Legal Services for Victims of Crime
    
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            $694,288NIJ's 50th Anniversary - Looking Back, Looking Forward
    
        August 2018
      
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                  Research for the Real World

            NIJ’s 50th anniversary is an opportunity to reflect on how far the Institute has come, as well as its direction and priorities moving forward. In this Research for the Real World event, panelists will speak to the history and future of the Institute, drawing from decades of experience working for and closely with NIJ. Two Former NIJ Directors will reflect on their days heading the agency and their observations on how the agency has changed over time.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyEvidence-Based Policing: The Importance of Research and Evidence
    
        July 2018
      
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            NIJ’s two Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science programs encourage law enforcement officers and agencies to use data and research to inform their policies and practices. This panel convened leading practitioners and researchers to discuss evidence-based policing for an audience that includes the next generation of U.S. policing leadership. Panelists come from a variety of backgrounds and will draw from on-the-ground experience to discuss evidence-based policing as it relates to law enforcement training curriculums, practitioner-led trials, research clearinghouses, and other topics.
      
            Review the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy PolicyAttenuated Total Reflection Infrared Microscopy and Charpy Impact Tester for Analysis of Automotive Paint Smears
    
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              January 25, 2018, 12:00 am

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              OpenObjective Comparison of Striated Toolmarks Produced from Ten Consecutively Manufactured Cold Chisels Measured by Contact and Optical Surface Profilometry and Comparison Microscopy
    
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              OpenDevelopment of Infrared Library Search Prefilters for Automotive Clear Coats from Simulated ATR Spectra
    
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