Resource Results
In this article, Dr. Nancy Rodriguez, Director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), provides detail on the core missions of NIJ, and outlines the organizations guiding principles: 1) Research can make a difference in individual lives.
Over the last few decades, understandings of the nature and causes of domestic violence have increased in sophistication. This has been influenced by, and led to, an influx of domestic violence typologies that have attempted to identify differences between groups of offenders and victims based on factors ranging from physiological reactions to specific stimuli through to historical experiences of violence and abuse. While this research has been of undeniable conceptual and theoretical… Read More
This Research for the Real World Seminar explores common police practices for responding to gun violence and the extent to which they are contributing to reductions in violent incidents. The panel also explored the role of multi-disciplinary partners such as the public health sector in reducing gun violence, and discussed promising practices for law enforcement partnerships to leverage complimentary violence reduction efforts.
In 2010, the Shreveport Police Department (SPD) developed a predictive policing program, titled Predictive Intelligence Led Operational Targeting (PILOT), with the aim of testing the model in the field. PILOT was an analytically driven policing strategy that uses special operations resources focused on narrow locations predicted to be hot spots for property crime. The underlying theory of PILOT was that signs of community disorder (and other indicators) are precursors of more-serious… Read More
Dr. Craig Uchida, Justice & Security Strategies, Inc., discusses the importance of using research to examine the impact of body-worn cameras. He leads an NIJ-supported project to evaluate the use of body-worn cameras by law enforcement to determine if they improve police behavior and relationships with the community.
Led by the Boston Public Health Commission and Boston Medical Center, the Boston Defending Childhood Initiative (Boston DCI) is an effort to prevent children’s exposure to violence, reduce its negative impact, and increase public awareness. The official goal of the Boston DCI is to prevent and reduce the impact of exposure to violence in homes, schools and communities for children ages 0 to 17 years.
Law enforcement agencies lack specific information describing where police officers patrol when not responding to calls for service. Instead, they have snapshots of events that are handled by police, such as the locations of crime reports, arrests, traffic citations, and pedestrian stops.
This study examines the effectiveness of foot patrol in violent micro-places. A large urban police department deployed foot patrol in micro-places (hot spots) for a period of 90 days for two shifts each day. Our objective is to determine whether this activity impacted violent crime in these hot spots and whether spatial displacement of crime occurred.
Many factors can influence study design, particularly when evaluating an intervention in the field. Although randomized controlled trials are considered the gold standard of evaluations, there are practical and ethical considerations that may exclude their use. This case study looks at those factors and their impact on an evaluation of an intimate partner violence intervention.
Future World Wide Web technologies commonly labeled as being part of Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 could substantially change how the criminal justice enterprise operates. These notably include Semantic Web technologies, intelligent agents, and the Internet of Things. In September 2014, RAND conducted an expert panel for the National Institute of Justice to discuss how the criminal justice community can take advantage of (and reduce the risks from) these emerging technologies.
