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Courts

 Research funding opportunities!

Court Technology Needs

Read the NIJ-funded RAND report: Fostering Innovation in the U.S. Court System Identifying High-Priority Technology and Other Needs for Improving Court Operations and Outcomes.

Analyzing Drug Policy

Review the findings from a study analyzing the impact of drug law reform in New York City.

Find What Works

Review rated programs and practices on CrimeSolutions.gov.

The National Institute of Justice sponsors criminal court research and court-based program evaluation to identify tools, programs and policies that satisfy criminal justice goals including: public safety, cost-efficiency and fair and equitable treatment of victims and defendants.

Courts Research Portfolio

NIJ's criminal courts research informs these goals through several approaches:

  

Court Operations and Case Management — methods for criminal justice administration applicable to diversion, pretrial and other stages of the criminal case processing.

Pretrial Research Meeting

Reducing Pretrial Domestic Violence

Benefits of Implementing a Pretrial Safety Program

Implementing a Pretrial Safety Program to Reduce Domestic Violence

Implications and Recommendations to Improve Pretrial Safety

NIJ's Research on Videoconferencing Pretrial Release Hearings

Specialized or Problem-Solving Courts — court-based interventions for offenders and communities that address substance abuse, mental health and other criminogenic needs.

Specialized or Problem-Solving Courts home.

Domestic Violence Courts

Victim Services and Safety

Courthouse and Pretrial Safety

Orders of Protection

Offender Accountability Procedures

Offender Assessments

Batterer Programs

Offender Monitoring

Judicial Oversight and Reducing Pretrial Domestic Violence

Benefits of Implementing a Pretrial Safety Program

Implementing a Pretrial Safety Program to Reduce Domestic Violence

Implications and Recommendations to Improve Pretrial Safety

Other Web Resources on Domestic Violence Courts

Publications on Domestic Violence Courts

Drug Courts

Drug Court Performance Measures and Program Evaluation

Do Drug Courts Work? Findings From Drug Court Research

Ongoing Drug Court Research: NIJ's Multisite Adult Drug Court Evaluation

Other Web Resources on Drug Courts

Publications on Drug Courts

Adjudication and Sentencing — criminal court procedures for judges, prosecutors, defense counsel and juries from arraignment through trial and sentencing.

Collateral Consequences of Conviction, National Inventory

Evaluating and Presenting Evidence in Court

CSI Effect (NIJ Journal article)

Digital Evidence in the Courtroom: A Guide for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors

Training on Evaluating and Presenting Evidence

Wrongful Convictions

Predicting and Preventing Erroneous Convictions

Postconviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Convictions

Indigent Defense

Indigent Defense Research

Indigent Defense Research Meetings

National Institute of Justice Topical Working Group Meeting on Right to Counsel and Indigent Defense, March 16–17, 2015 (pdf, 101 pages)

Indigent Defense Symposium: Looking Back, Looking Forward, 2000-2010

Expert Working Group Report: International Perspectives on Indigent Defense, September 2011 (pdf, 58 pages)

Truth-in-Sentencing (NIJ Journal article)

Postconviction Testing and Wrongful Convictions

Postconviction DNA Testing

Funding for Postconviction Testing

DNA's Role in Uncovering Wrongful Convictions

Publications on Sentencing and Adjudication

Technology — courtroom security technologies and forensic and other scientific technologies that support criminal case processing through information sharing, evidence testing and management and other investigative and trial functions.

Contraband Detection Technologies

Types of Forensic Evidence

Types of Investigations

NIJ’s Research on Videoconferencing Pretrial Release Hearings

Date Modified: January 2, 2017