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Impact of the No Early Release Act (NERA) on Prosecution and Sentencing in New Jersey, 1996-2000
This study examined New Jersey's No Early Release Act (NERA), which became effective in 1997. NERA required that offenders convicted of violent crimes serve at least 85 percent... -
Assessing the Delivery of Community Policing Services in Ada County, Idaho, 2002
This study was conducted to explore the ways that enable the Ada County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) to examine its behavior in five areas that embody its adoption of community... -
Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Women's Labor Force Participation in Illinois, 1999-2002
The first goal of this study was to identify the incidence of partner violence among Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients over a three-year period. The... -
Rural and Urban Trends in Family and Intimate Partner Homicide in the United States, 1980-1999
This research project examined rural and urban trends in family and intimate partner homicide for the 20-year period from 1980 through 1999. The construct of place served as a... -
Evaluation of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Mental Health Court Initiative at Seven Sites in the United States, 2003-2004
This study evaluated seven mental health courts that were partially funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Data were collected on 285 formal referrals to the seven courts... -
Measure 11 Sentencing Reform in Oregon: Implementation and System Impact, 1990-1999
This study explored the implementation and impact of Measure 11 (passed by Oregon voters in 1994), which imposed long mandatory prison terms for 16 designated violent and sex-... -
Battering, Work, and Welfare in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 2001-2002
The project's primary research objective was to assess the degree to which violence, sabotage, and control present obstacles to waged work and job training for women in... -
Evaluation of the Tribal Strategies Against Violence (TSAV) Initiative in Four Tribal Sites in the United States, 1995-1999
This study evaluated the Tribal Strategies Against Violence (TSAV) Initiative. The TSAV was a federal-tribal partnership, lasting from 1995 to 1999, designed to develop... -
Spatial Analysis of Rare Crimes: Homicides in Chicago, Illinois, 1989-1991
This project's main goal was to develop an analytical framework that could be used for analysis of rare crimes observed at local (intra-city) levels of geographic aggregation.... -
North Carolina Highway Traffic Study, 2000-2001
This study investigated whether the North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP) practiced racial profiling. The NCSHP provided data on all vehicular stops (Parts 1 and 2),... -
Evaluation of Waiver Effects in Maryland, 1998-2000
The purpose of this research was to assist policymakers in determining if the targeted youths affected by the waiver laws passed by the Maryland legislature in 1994 and 1998... -
National Evaluation of the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant Program, 1998-2002
This study examined the operation of the Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant program (JAIBG) from fiscal years 1998 through 2000. In order to describe how states... -
Evaluation of the Lexington County, South Carolina, Domestic Violence Court, 1997-2002
A separate Criminal Domestic Violence Court (CDVC) was established in Lexington County, South Carolina, in November 1999, to hold perpetrators of domestic violence accountable... -
Early Identification of the Serious Habitual Juvenile Offender Using a Birth Cohort in Philadelphia, 1958-1984
Beginning in the mid-1980s, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) funded the creation of Habitual Offender Units (HOUs) in 13 cities. HOUs were... -
Evaluation of the Midtown Community Court in New York City, 1992-1994
In October 1993, the Midtown Community Court opened as a three-year demonstration project designed to forge links with the community in developing a problem-solving approach to... -
Justice Systems Processing of Child Abuse and Neglect Cases in a Local Jurisdiction (County) in the United States, 1993-1994
The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive, case-level examination of the full spectrum of case processing of serious child abuse and neglect cases as they flowed... -
Evaluation of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation Cognitive Skills Development Program Implemented in Juvenile Intensive Supervision Probation in Colorado, 1994-1995
This study was a program evaluation of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation Cognitive Skills Development Program, an educational program that taught cognitive skills to offenders,... -
Violent Incidents Among Selected Public School Students in Two Large Cities of the South and the Southern Midwest, 1995: [United States]
This study of violent incidents among middle- and high-school students focused not only on the types and frequency of these incidents, but also on their dynamics -- the... -
School Culture, Climate, and Violence: Safety in Middle Schools of the Philadelphia Public School System, 1990-1994
This study was designed to explore school culture and climate and their effects on school disorder, violence, and academic performance on two levels. At the macro level of... -
Experimental Evaluation of Drug Testing and Treatment Interventions for Probationers in Maricopa County, Arizona, 1992-1994
This data collection represents a combined experimental evaluation of a drug court program, implemented in 1992 in cooperation with the Maricopa County Adult Probation...