Violent crime
Oklahoma Methamphetamine Data Initiative: Final Research Report
Addressing the Challenges of Detecting Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault
NIJ has funded research to address the challenges of detecting DFSA for several years. This research includes projects that examine ways to improve forensic hair testing and how drugs modify blood proteins.
Evaluating Technology-Based Services for Victims of Crime
Three NIJ-funded evaluations enhance our understanding about the effectiveness of technology-based services for victims who experience crime and violence.
Safe Transitions for Teens
Five Things About Youth and Delinquency
Reducing Gun Violence Through Integrated Forensic Evidence Collection, Analysis, and Sharing
Multi-pronged approach of data integration, collaboration, and intelligence-led policing has helped reduce gun violence in New Jersey.
Exploring the Social Networks of Homegrown Violent Extremist (HVE) Military Veterans, Final Research Report
A National Portrait of Project Safe Neighborhoods Implementation
Understanding the Potential for Multidisciplinary Threat Assessment and Management Teams to Prevent Terrorism: Conducting a Formative Evaluation of the MassBay Threat Assessment Team, Executive Summary
NIJ FY24 Invited to Apply – Safe Transitions for Teens: Assessing the Impact of Intimate Partner Transitional Housing on Adolescent Residents Study
NIJ seeks an application for a study that will fill a gap in research on community level interventions to reduce risk and increase protective factors for intimate partner violence exposed teens.
NIJ FY24 Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism - Invited to Apply
NIJ seeks an application for funding of rigorous research targeted toward developing a better understanding of the domestic radicalization phenomenon amongst five far-right violent extremist groups and the development of an analytical framework related to risk and protective factors (and combinations thereof) to advance evidence-based strategies for effective intervention and prevention.
Lessons Learned on the Methodological Challenges in Studying Rare Violent Incidents
Macro-Level Influences on Police Decision-Making and Engagement with Victims of Serious Violent Crime: A Narrative Case Study of Two States
Research and Practitioner Perspectives on the Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Violent Extremists
Raman Spectroscopy to Determine the Time Since Deposition of Heated Bloodstains
Neighborhood Crime Survey: An Examination of the Relationship between Immigration and Victimization
A Place-Based Approach To Address Youth-Police Officer Interactions In Crime Hot Spots: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Is It an Accident or Abuse? Researchers Develop Predictive Models for Pediatric Head Injuries
Is It an Accident or Abuse? Researchers Develop Predictive Models for Pediatric Head Injuries
NIJ-supported research has enabled biomechanical experts to improve predictive models of head injuries in children, helping physicians and law enforcement to better distinguish between accidental injury and abuse.