Gathering Tips & Addressing Threats in Schools
The field is just starting to learn how to collect tips and how to respond to school violence threats. Research indicates that to be successful, these approaches require technological investments, training, trust building, and expertise by a wide variety of individuals — as well as a systematic approach to assessing threats and responding to tips.
Gender-Responsive Reentry Programming
The challenges confronting women returning from incarceration are formidable and complex, pointing to a need for specialized and appropriate reentry programming. NIJ-supported researchers reviewed existing empirical literature related to what works in female reentry, and offers nine recommendations for policy and practice.
Unreliable Indicators of Marijuana Intoxication
NIJ-supported researchers investigated how marijuana affects skills required for safe driving and found that biofluid levels of THC did not correlate with field sobriety test performance or marijuana intoxication, regardless of how the cannabis was ingested.
A Challenge to Reduce Recidivism
Data science can potentially contribute to factors of successful reentry, such as identifying gender-specific needs and reducing racial bias in risk assessments. We launched the Recidivism Challenge to invite our nations brightest data minds to help the corrections community support those at risk of recidivating. $723,000 in prizes is available for the most fair and accurate forecasts.
What is Mass Spectrometry?
NIJ’s Term of the Month promotes research-based definitions of criminal justice terms. Used as a measuring technique for fragments of a compound, mass spectrometry takes a sample, ionizes and breaks the compounds in it, and sorts the fragments by the ratio of their weight to their charge. The pattern of the fragments makes a spectral signature that can be used to identify compounds.
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PTSD Coach Smartphone App for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms
This is a smartphone app intervention designed to help manage and reduce posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy
This is a cognitive–behavioral treatment program for assault survivors who have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for Children with PTSD
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The First Step Act
The First Step Act of 2018 aims to reform the federal prison system and reduce recidivism. NIJ is working to assess and develop an existing prisoner risk and needs assessment system, and develop recommendations regarding effective evidence-based recidivism reduction programs and activities.