NCJ Number
237353
Date Published
2006
Length
110 pages
Annotation
This document is the program for the 3-day 2006 National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Conference on Criminal Justice Research, Development, and Evaluation in the Social and Physical Sciences.
Abstract
This document is the program for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Conference on Criminal Justice Research, Development, and Evaluation in the Social and Physical Sciences held on July 17-19, 2006, in Washington, DC. The materials provided in the program include the daily agenda for the 3-day meeting, presenter biographies, and a list of pre-registered attendees. Topics covered over the three days of the conference include: Getting Serious About Crime Fighting: the Future of Public Safety Policy and Research; Using Global Positioning Systems to Supervise Sex Offenders in the Community; Digital Evidence: Investigations, Evidence Preservation, and Analysis; Criminal Justice Lessons Learned from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; Impact of Identity Theft on Victims; Recent Findings from OJJDP's Causes and Correlates Program on Research; Criminal Justice Information Sharing: Real Time Sharing with Real Results; Conducting Research and Evaluation in Indian Country; Progress in Police Responses to Violence Against Women; Mapping Uniform Crime Report and National Incident-Based Reporting System Data; Evidence-Based Practices for Probation: Intermediate Measures and Results; Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003: Update on Research and Data Collections; Applications of Operations Research to the Criminal Justice System; Current Research on Child Victimization; Cutting-Edge Technologies to Deny Criminals Free Access to the Community; and Strategies for Reducing Gang and Gun Violence: Findings from Project Safe Neighborhoods Cities.