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NIJ Journal No. 259, March 2008

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Features

• ‘The CSI Effect’: Does It Really Exist?
  by Honorable Donald E. Shelton
• Voice Stress Analysis: Only 15 Percent of Lies About Drug Use Detected in Field Test
  by Kelly R. Damphousse, Ph.D.
• Shopping Malls: Are They Prepared to Prevent and Respond to Attack?
  by Robert C. Davis
• Software Defined Radios Help Agencies Communicate
  by Joseph Heaps
• Prison Rape: Research Explores Prevalence, Prevention
  by Pat Kaufman
• In Memoriam: Paul Cascarano
  by Mary G. Graham
• Cost, Performance Studies Look at Prison Privatization
  by Gerry Gaes, Ph.D.

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• Publications in Brief

NIJ Journal. 258, October 2007  

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Features

• Police Lineups: Making Eyewitness Identification More Reliable
  by Beth Schuster
• Sexual Assault: Virtual Training Takes Responders From Exam Room to Courtroom
  by Kristina Rose
• Taking the Initiative: Practitioners Who Perform Frontline Research
  by Lois A. Tully, Ph.D.
• Through-the-Wall Surveillance: A New Technology for Saving Lives
  by Christopher A. Miles
• Detecting Concealed Weapons: Directions for the Future
  by Chris Tillery
• Major Study Examines Prisoners and Their Reentry Needs
  by Christy A. Visher, Ph.D., and Pamela K. Lattimore, Ph.D.
• Forensic Databases: Paint, Shoe Prints, and Beyond
  by Robin Bowen and Jessica Schneider

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• Publications in Brief

NIJ Journal No. 257, June 2007

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• Publications in Brief

NIJ Journal No. 256, January 2007

Director’s Message

Features

• Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains: The Nation’s Silent Mass Disaster
• Making Every Encounter Count: Building Trust and Confidence in the Police
• Sexual Assault in Abusive Relationships
• Online DNA Training Targets Lawyers, Judges
• Identifying Remains: Lessons Learned From 9/11

NIJ Journal No. 255, November 2006

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Features

• Can Jury Trial Innovations Improve Juror Understanding of DNA Evidence?
• Preparing for the Future: Criminal Justice in 2040
• Does Parental Incarceration Increase a Child’s Risk for Foster Care Placement?
• Elder Abuse in the United States
• Understanding and Applying Research on Prostitution

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• Books in Brief
• Corrections Today Features NIJ Articles

NIJ Journal No. 254, July 2006

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Features

• Body Armor Safety Initiative: To Protect and Serve…Better
• Analyzing Terror: Researchers Study the Perpetrators and the Effects of Suicide Terrorism
• Keeping an Eye on School Security: The Iris Recognition Project in New Jersey Schools
• Maximize Your Evaluation Dollars
• Digital Evidence: How Law Enforcement Can Level the Playing Field With Criminals
• Methamphetamine Abuse: Challenges for Law Enforcement and Communities
• Has Rape Reporting Increased Over Time?
  

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• NIJ and Harvard University Webcast Addresses Prisoner Reentry

NIJ Journal No. 253, January 2006

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Features

• DNA Analysis for “Minor” Crimes: A Major Benefit for Law Enforcement
• Tracking Prisoners in Jail With Biometrics: An Experiment in a Navy Brig
• Predicting a Criminal’s Journey to Crime
• Victim Satisfaction With the Criminal Justice System

At-A-Glance

• Police Responses to Officer-Involved Shootings
• Automated Information Sharing: Does It Help Law Enforcement Officers Work Better?

Also in This Issue

• NIJ and Harvard University Host Webcasts on Less Lethal Force and DNA in “Minor” Crimes
• Books in Brief
• Publications of Interest From NIJ

NIJ Journal No. 252, July 2005

Director’s Message

Features

• Reentry Programs for Women Inmates
• The Voice Response Translator: A Valuable Police Tool
• Telemarketing Predators: Finally, We’ve Got Their Number
• Truth in Sentencing and State Sentencing Practices
• Special Technologies for Law Enforcement and Corrections

At-A-Glance

• Tracking Modern Day Slavery
• Prosecutors’ Programs Ease Victims’ Anxieties
• The Decline of Intimate Partner Homicide

NIJ Journal No. 251, July 2004

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Director’s Message (PDF)

Features

• Youth Gangs in Rural America (PDF)
• What Does It Take to Make Collaboration Work? Lessons Learned Through the Criminal Justice System Project (PDF)
• The Campbell Collaboration: Helping to Understand “What Works” (PDF)
• The Data Resources Program: Making Data Available to Researchers (PDF)

At-A-Glance

• Child Custody Mediation and Domestic Violence (PDF)
• Another Look at the Effects of Child Abuse (PDF)
• Why Do Hung Juries Hang? (PDF)
• Problem-Oriented Policing Succeeds in Public Housing (PDF)
• Conducting Frugal Evaluations of Programs (PDF)

NIJ Journal No. 250, November 2003

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Features

• Intimate Partner Homicide: An Overview (PDF)
• How Can Practitioners Help an Abused Woman Lower Her Risk of Death? (PDF)
• Risky Mix: Drinking, Drug Use, and Homicide (PDF)
• Assessing Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Homicide (PDF)
• Do Domestic Violence Services Save Lives? (PDF)
• Reviewing Domestic Violence Deaths (PDF)
• NCJRS—Sharing Information for More Than 30 Years (PDF)

At-A-Glance

• Cross-Cultural Issues in Domestic Violence (PDF)
• Florida Sheriffs Take on Child Abuse Investigations (PDF)
• The Gentrification of Drug Markets (PDF)
• Evaluating Multijurisdictional Drug Enforcement Task Forces (PDF)
• Social Changes and Their Effects on Homicide Rates (PDF)
• Getting Residents’ Feedback and Participation (PDF)
• Crime Victims Compensation Programs Needs Assessed (PDF)
• Measuring the Effects of Quality-of-Life Policing (PDF)
• Studying Racial Profiling in North Carolina (PDF)

NIJ Journal No. 249, July 2003

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Features

• Without a Trace? Advances in Detecting Trace Evidence (PDF)
• DNA Evidence: What Law Enforcement Officers Should Know (PDF)
• CCTV: Constant Cameras Track Violators (PDF)
• NIJ’s Bullet-Resistant Vest Standard Reaches Milestone (PDF)

At-A-Glance

• Alcohol Control Policies and Violent Crime (PDF)
• Binge Drinking in the Northern Plains Tribes (PDF)
• Using Geographic Analysis in Probation and Parole (PDF)
• Community Policing, Then and Now (PDF)

NIJ Journal No. 248, March 2002

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Features

• Prosecutors, Kids, and Domestic Violence Cases (PDF)
• Preventing School Shootings: A Summary of a U.S. Secret Service Safe School Initiative Report (PDF)
• Tired Cops: The Prevalence and Potential Consequences of Police Fatigue (PDF)
• Trust and Confidence in Criminal Justice (PDF)

At-A-Glance

• Recent Research Findings (PDF)

Departments

• New & Noteworthy, Events, and Solicitations (PDF)

NIJ Journal No. 247, April 2001

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Features

• Challenging the Russian Mafia Mystique (PDF)
• The Changing Federal Role in Indian Country (PDF)
• When It’s No Longer A Game: Pathological Gambling in the United States (PDF)

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• Recent Research Findings (PDF)

Departments

• New & Noteworthy and Events (PDF)

NIJ Journal No. 246, January 2001

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Features

• Policing on American Indian Reservations (PDF)
• The “Natasha” Trade: Transnational Sex Trafficking (PDF)
• Police Turnover in Isolated Communities: The Alaska Experience (PDF)
• Creating Winning Innovations in Criminal Justice (PDF)

At-A-Glance

• Recent Research Findings (PDF)

Departments

• Solicitations & Awards, New & Noteworthy, and Events (PDF)

NIJ Journal No. 245, October 2000

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Features

• Harnessing Information in a Prosecutor’s Office (PDF)
• Methamphetamine: An Update on an Emerging Problem (PDF)
• Getting to Know Neighborhoods (PDF)
• Measuring Violence Against Women: Recommendations from an Interagency Workshop (PDF)
• Toward the Ideal of Community Justice (PDF)

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• Recent Research Findings (PDF)

Departments

• New & Noteworthy, Events, and Solicitations & Awards (PDF)

NIJ Journal No. 244, July 2000

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Features

• Meeting the Challenge of Transnational Crime (PDF)
• Keeping the Peace: Police Discretion and Mentally Ill Persons (PDF)
• Getting Smarter: Making Guns Safer for Law Enforcement and Consumers (PDF)
• Reducing Offender Drug Use Through Prison-Based Treatment (PDF)

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• Recent Research Findings (PDF)

Departments

• New & Noteworthy and Events (PDF)

NIJ Journal No. 243, April 2000

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Features

• Clearing Up Homicide Clearance Rates (PDF)
• Drug-Facilitated Rape: Looking for the Missing Pieces (PDF)
• Can We Talk? Public Safety and the Interoperability Challenge (PDF)
• Departing Thoughts From an NIJ Director (PDF)
• Youth Violence: Do Parents and Families Make a Difference? (PDF)

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• Recent Research Findings (PDF)

Departments

• New & Noteworthy, Events, and Solicitations & Awards (PDF)

NIJ Journal No. 242, January 2000

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Features

• Childhood Victimization: Early Adversity, Later Psychopathology (PDF)
• Crunching Numbers: Crime and Incarceration at the End of the Millennium (PDF)
• On-the-Job Stress in Policing—Reducing It, Preventing It (PDF)
• Community Oriented Lawyering: An Emerging Approach to Legal Practice (PDF)
• Piecing Together the Cross-National Crime Puzzle (PDF)

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• Recent Research Findings (PDF)

Departments

• New & Noteworthy, Events, and Solicitations & Awards (PDF)

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  NIJ Journal No. 241, October 1999

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  Features

  • Mapping the Path to Problem Solving (PDF)
  • Reducing Drug Use in Prisons: Pennsylvania’s Approach (PDF)
  • Using Knowledge and Teamwork to Reduce Crime (PDF)
  • The Pickett Fellowships: Cultivating Effective Leaders in Criminal Justice (PDF)

  At-A-Glance

  • Recent Research Findings (PDF)

  Departments

  • New & Noteworthy, Events, Solicitations & Awards, NIJ in the Journals, and Final Reports (PDF)

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  NIJ Journal No. 240, July 1999

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  • Job Placement for Offenders: A Promising Approach to Reducing Recidivism and Correctional Costs
  • Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Emergence of Problem-Solving Courts
  • Private Funding for Criminal Justice Initiatives: What You Should Know About the Grantseeking Process

  At-A-Glance

  • The Public Health and Law Enforcement Stress
  • International Drug Use: Comparing British and American Arrestees

  Departments

  • New & Noteworthy, Events, Solicitations & Awards, and NIJ in the Journals

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  NIJ Journal No. 239, April 1999

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  Features

  • Community Policing: Chicago’s Experience
  • Drug Use Measures: What Are They Really Telling Us?
  • Can Telemedicine Reduce Spending and Improve Prisoner Health Care?
  • Race, Crime, and the Administration of Justice

  At-A-Glance

  • Recent Research Findings

  Departments

  • New & Noteworthy, Solicitations & Awards, Events, and NIJ in the Journals

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  NIJ Journal No. 238, January 1999

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  Features

  • NIJ’s Locally Initiated Research Partnerships in Policing—Factors That Add up to Success
  • Going Mobile in Law Enforcement Technology
  • Forensic DNA Evidence: National Commission Explores Its Future
  • Research Preview: Information Information Sharing Among Police Agencies

  Departments

  • New & Noteworthy, NIJ Awards, Solicitations, Final Reports, Events, NIJ in the Journals, and Recent NIJ Publications

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  NIJ Journal No. 237, October 1998

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  Features

  • Addiction Is a Brain Disease—And It Matters
  • Crime’s Decline—Why?
  • The IDENT System: Putting “Structure to the Chaos of the Border”
  • Reducing Crime by Harnessing International Best Practice
  • Using City-Level Surveys to Better Understand Community Policing

  Departments

  • Events, New & Noteworthy, Recent NIJ Publications, and NIJ in the Journals

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  NIJ Journal No. 236, July 1998

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  Features

  • Pulling Levers: Getting Deterrence Right
  • Breaking the Cycle of Abuse in Birmingham
  • The Impact of the Opportunity to Succeed Program on Employment Success
  • Smart Cards: An Information Tool for the Future

  Departments

  • Events, NIJ in the Journals, Recent NIJ Publications, Solicitations, and New & Noteworthy

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  NIJ Journal No. 235, March 1998

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  • Crime in Public Housing: Clarifying Research Issues
  • Restorative Justice: An Interview with Visiting Fellow Thomas Quinn
  • Protecting Public Transportation from Terrorists
  • Research Preview: Sentencing Guidelines: A State Perspective

  Departments

  • New & Noteworthy, Solicitations, NIJ Awards, Final Reports, NIJ in the Journals, Recent NIJ Publications, and Events

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  NIJ Journal No. 234, December 1997

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  • Suppose We Were Really Serious About Police Departments Becoming “Learning Organizations”?
  • Drug Testing in Criminal Justice: Evolving Uses, Emerging Technologies
  • The Unrealized Potential of DNA Testing
  • Looking Backward to Look Forward: The 1967 Crime Commission Report in Retrospect
  • Research Preview: Comparing Drug Purchase and Use Patterns in Six Cities

  Departments

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  NIJ Journal No. 233, September 1997

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  • Probation in the United States: Practices and Challenges
  • American’s Views on Crime and Law Enforcement: Survey Findings
  • Who Wrote It?: Steps Toward a Science of Authorship Identification
  • Research Preview: Civil Protection Orders: Victims’ Views on Effectiveness

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  NIJ Journal No. 232, June 1997

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  Features

  • Crime and Illegal Immigration: Emerging Local, State, and Federal Partnerships
  • Applying Technological Advances to Criminal Justice
  • Crime and Justice Series: Annual Research Reviews for Criminal Justice
  • Research Previews:
    • Evaluation of Drug Treatment in Local Corrections
    • Court Security and the Transportation of Prisoners

  Departments

  • Events, Solicitations, NIJ in the Journals, Publications, New Titles, New & Noteworthy, and NIJ Awards

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  NIJ Journal No. 231, August 1996

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  Features

  • Linking Community-Based Initiatives and Community Justice: The Office of Justice Programs
  • Grassroots and Persistent: The Chicago Alliance for Neighborhood Safety
  • Neighborhood Revitalization: Lessons from Savannah and Baltimore
  • Crime Prevention Through Neighborhood Revitalization: Does Practice Reflect Theory?
  • The Federal Role in Revitalizing Communities and Preventing and Controlling Crime and Violence
  • The Community’s Role in Community Policing
  • What Is Community Prosecution?
  • Community Defense and the Challenge of Community Justice
  • Community Courts: Prospects and Limits
  • Toward a Corrections of “Place”: The Challenge of “Community” in Corrections

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  NIJ Journal No. 230, February 1996

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  Features

  • Thinking Globally To Act Locally: NIJ Improves Worldwide Access to Criminal Justice Information
  • The Crime Act One Year Later: NIJ’s Role
  • Prison-Based Therapeutic Communities: Their Success with Drug-Abusing Offenders
  • Violence Against Women: Reflections on NIJ’s Research Agenda
  • Street Gang Migration: How Big a Threat?
  • Rethinking Criminal Justice Policy: A View from the Research Community
  • Update on CALEA Study

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  NIJ Journal No. 229, August 1995

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  Features

  • Violence by Young People: Why the Deadly Nexus?
  • Controlling Crime Before It Happens: Risk-Focused Prevention
  • Partnerships Against Violence: Reducing Youth Violence Through Information Sharing
  • The Anatomy of Fraud: Report of a Nationwide Survey
  • Technology Transfer From Defense: Concealed Weapon Detection
  • The CALEA Standards: What Is the Fit with Community Policing?