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Summary of a Workshop
The Panel on Juvenile Crime: Prevention, Treatment, and Control convened a workshop on October 2, 1998, to explore issues related to educational perfo...
Many studies during the past few decades have sought to determine whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. Researchers ha...
A Developmental Approach
Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-ta...
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice is one of the smallest of the U.S. principal statistical agencies but shoulde...
Even though youth crime rates have fallen since the mid-1990s, public fear and political rhetoric over the issue have heightened. The Columbine shooti...
The Evidence
Because police are the most visible face of government power for most citizens, they are expected to deal effectively with crime and disorder and to b...
A Critical Review
For years proposals for gun control and the ownership of firearms have been among the most contentious issues in American politics. For public authori...
Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an implication that individuals who are bullied must ha...
As states have moved from merely tolerating gambling to running their own games, as communities have increasingly turned to gambling for an economic b...
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the nation's primary resource for advancing scientific research, development, and evaluation on crime and c...
Exploring Causes and Consequences
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last fou...
Effects on Crime and Communities
Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It develope...
Crime statistics assail us from the front pages of newspapers around the countryรขโฌ"and around the globe. As the world's economic systems become int...
Improving the Scientific Role of the National Institute of Justice
Reliable and valid forensic science analytic techniques are critical to a credible, fair, and evidence-based criminal justice system. There is widespr...
Workshop Summary
Most major crime in this country emanates from two major data sources. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports has collected information on crimes known to th...
Assessing Eyewitness Identification
Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification makes the case that better data collection and research on eyewitness identification, new...
Bullying - long tolerated as just a part of growing up - finally has been recognized as a substantial and preventable health problem. Bullying is asso...
Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The long-...
Report 1: Defining and Classifying Crime
To derive statistics about crime รขโฌ" to estimate its levels and trends, assess its costs to and impacts on society, and inform law enforcement appr...
Report of a Workshop
This workshop arose out of the efforts of the Committee on Law and Justice to assist the National Institute of Justice in identifying gaps in the over...
Although billions of dollars have been spent on crime prevention and control programs during the past decade, scientifically strong impact evaluations...
Although violent crime in the United States has declined over the past five years, certain groups appear to remain at disproportionately high risk for...
Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America
Since the late 1970s when Congressman Claude Pepper held widely publicized hearings on the mistreatment of the elderly, policy makers and practitioner...
In 2010, more than 105,000 people were injured or killed in the United States as the result of a firearm-related incident. Recent, highly publicized, ...
Advancing Health, Equity, and Safety
The conditions and characteristics of correctional facilities - overcrowded with rapid population turnover, often in old and poorly ventilated structu...
Every day, about 1,600 people are released from prisons in the United States. Of these 600,000 new releasees every year, about 480,000 are subject to ...
A Workshop Summary
Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, both historically and in comparis...
Understanding Lethal School Violence
The shooting at Columbine High School riveted national attention on violence in the nation's schools. This dramatic example signaled an implicit and g...
This report expands on the work of an earlier National Research Council panel whose report, Understanding Violence Against Women, was published in 199...
What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us
How should the war on drugs be fought? Everyone seems to agree that the United States ought to use a combination of several different approaches to co...
The U.S. Department of State, through its Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), provides foreign assistance and support...
A Framework for Program Assessment
All U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal data-such as phone records or Web sites visited-should be required to...
Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Despite the serious and lo...
Options for Conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey
It is easy to underestimate how little was known about crimes and victims before the findings of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) became...
The Federal Role
"The report identifies seven hallmarks of a developmental approach to juvenile justice to guide system reform: accountability without criminalization,...
Despite efforts to reduce drug consumption in the United States over the past 35 years, drugs are just as cheap and available as they have ever been. ...
New Systems for Measuring Crime