School Safety
NCJRS offers the School Safety Special Feature, which captures information and resources to promote safety in schools. Special Feature focus areas include:
New and Updated Human Trafficking Resources Available
Access an updated Human Trafficking Task Force e-Guide on the new mobile-friendly human trafficking Web site to help strengthen the knowledge and skills needed to assist victims of human trafficking.
Online Resources
Funding Opportunities
- Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence (NIJ)
Application deadline: December 15, 2014 - NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (NIJ)
Application deadline: December 24, 2014 - W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime FY 2015 (NIJ)
Application deadline: December 24, 2014
Legal Sector Guide Available on Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking
The Institute of Medicine and National Research Council have released an OJJDP-funded guide for law enforcement and court personnel who interact with victims, survivors, and perpetrators of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors.
- Read the Guide: A Guide for the Legal Sector
- Access the Report: Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States
Announcements
- Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to convene November 18 – register to attend or watch the live Webcast (OJJDP)
- Department of Justice Adds Sites to National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention (OJJDP)
- Comments sought on Bomb Suit Standard for Law Enforcement, Corrections and Public Safety (NIJ)
- See the BJS slides from a C-SPAN discussion on domestic violence (BJS)
Publications
