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This resource looks at how first responders can help offenders who become crime victims connect with existing services despite formidable systemic barriers to post-injury services for this distinct crime victim subset.
Law enforcement officers play three important roles on the front lines of the opioid epidemic: They are responsible for emergency response and preserving public safety as well as law enforcement. This report discusses the challenge of reconciling the conflicts that can arise among these roles and presents recommendations for alleviating these difficulties and improving law enforcement response to the opioid crisis.
This report profiles the implementation science checklist series, which is a tool for professionals who direct and oversee programming in the fields of corrections, community corrections, behavioral health, and social services.
CRI-TAC Field Features are a compilation of innovative practices implemented by the field to enhance operations while maintaining public safety and the safety and wellness of an agency during the COVID-19 pandemic. This feature describes the measures taken to manage public health and critical infrastructure during the pandemic by the local partnerships in which Houston's law enforcement community participates, including a regional supply chain group.
CRI-TAC Field Features are a compilation of innovative practices implemented by the field to enhance operations while maintaining public safety and the safety and wellness of an agency during the COVID-19 pandemic. This feature describes the measures enacted by the Montana Law Enforcement Academy (MLEA) in order to continue to provide law enforcement, corrections/detention, public safety communicator, and probation and parole training while keeping its students and staff safe.
This sixth episode in the National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ’s) Just Science podcast series is an interview with Tim Black, Director of Consulting for the White Bird Clinic in Eugene, Oregon, in which he discusses the CAHOOTS program, a community-based public safety model that provides mental-health first response for crises that involve mental illness, homelessness, and substance-use disorder.
This NIJ Notes From the Field details interoperable communications challenges facing first responders and public safety officials.
This report presents the strategies and solutions for serving the youngest victims of the nation’s opioid crisis that were proposed and discussed at a national meeting of multidisciplinary teams and experts on December 4-5, 2019.
This article presents insights from a workgroup of jail administrators, correctional experts, and representatives of national associations that employed jail data to improve decision-making, inform resource allocation, and enhance outcomes for both the organization and the inmate populations.
Community courts provide a flexible, tailored approach to justice in local communities. There are many diverse community courts ranging from peer-to-peer courts, mediation, restorative courts, and more. Some function on their own and some complement traditional courts. Their high adaptability, however, makes it hard to evaluate them.
