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This NIJ Journal article describes how forensic intelligence works in practice, with a focus on its role in analyzing serial and violent crimes.
Read about common findings and recommendations from the National Public Safety Partnership (PSP) Crime Analysis Assessments.
Read about common findings and recommendations from the National Public Safety Partnership (PSP) Technology Assessments.
The COSSAP provides grant funding and technical assistance to selected sites for the development and implementation of programs that address the issues and needs of children and families in which a parent has a substance use disorder (SUD). This article focuses on ways that schools can be partners with other agencies in addressing this issue. The rationale for such an effort is to enlist schools as partners with justice, public health, and child welfare agencies in addressing the effects… Read More
Law enforcement and other first responder diversion program models provide a structure for first responders to redirect individuals with substance use disorder (SUD), mental health disorders (MHD), or co-occurring disorders away from placement in jails or emergency departments to connect them to community-based treatment for substance use, mental health disorder, housing services, or social services.
Researchers from the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati - in collaboration with Policy Research Associates, the Arc of the United States’ National Center on Criminal Justice and Disability, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police - are cooperatively working on a national curriculum, technologically advanced training methods, and best practice guides and products that will facilitate the achievement of three objectives: 1) Address the need for… Read More
This article describes the features of one (“Naloxone Plus”) of the five pathways proposed by the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA’s) Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP) for first responders, such as law enforcement officers and fire/emergency medical personnel, to use in diverting from jail and/or criminal justice processing to treatment services persons for whom they have administered naloxone to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
Since 9/11, the number of terrorist attacks and the lethality of these attacks are increasing at alarming levels within the United States and abroad. Countering violent extremism depends on understanding the radicalization process that leads to terrorist acts, but radicalization within the United States is a complicated picture.
Program evaluation is essential to ensuring that prison systems adopt effective programs and policies. The "gold standard" method for evaluating outcomes of programs and policies is the randomized controlled trial (RCT), a type of scientific experiment featuring random assignment of individuals to either a treatment or control group in order to precisely measure the treatment’s impact. While conducting RCT evaluations can be met with skepticism and challenges, where feasible RCTs deliver… Read More
The Community Policing Self-Assessment Tool, or CP-SAT, was developed by ICF International to measure the extent of agencies' community policing activities in the areas of community partnerships, problem solving, and organizational transformation. It provides a way to determine the status of community policing implementation at the agency level, at different ranks and functions and across time.
