Role and Examples of Applied Research
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Forum Measuring Outcomes And Designing Research
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Jurisdictional Reports
Jurisdictional reports are created using an automated query with a statistical analysis software package and may appear with some formatting or typos in the text. They are produced for those jurisdictions in Arizona with a minimum of 30 cases in the...Read more
The effects of procedural injustice on the use of violence against police by Occupy Wall Street protesters
While a large, cross-disciplinary literature exists on crowd dynamics and protester behavior, few studies have tested the effects of perceived injustice on protester behavior. Based on data from a survey of Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York...Read more
Attitudes towards the Use of Violence against Police among Occupy Wall Street Protesters
Although many social movement participants claim to embrace non-violent civil disobedience strategies, protesters tend to have heterogeneous views on the morality and utility of engaging in violence. In particular, protesters sometimes view violence...Read more
Influence of Risk and Protective Factors on School-aged Youth Involvement with Gangs, Guns, and Delinquency: Findings from the El Salvador Youth Survey
Youth participation in problem behavior, including crime and violence, especially in gang-related violence, has become a global concern over the past several years. The research that is the basis for this report was designed to provide policymakers...Read more
The Criminal Research Information Management Evaluation System
Small Rural Border and Tribal Law enforcement agencies are frequently faced with prohibitive cost when acquiring, implementing and operating records management systems (RMS). These costs include those for software/system acquisition, software...Read more
Attitudes among Occupy DC participants about the use of violence against police
Social movements often embrace nonviolent civil disobedience strategies. At the same time, social movements sometimes attract participants with different temperaments and different views on the morality or utility of using violence against police...Read more
New Directions in Protest Policing
This article examines protest policing practices in the U.S. and offers suggestions for improving how police prepare for and respond to protests and mass demonstrations. Part I of the article examines the police response to the protests that...Read more
Police Estimates of Sex Trafficking: Venues, Trends and Data Sources
A new study from the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Service finds a lack of sex trafficking reporting standards as police agencies see prostitution shift from the street to online. A survey of 72 of the 100 largest U.S. municipal...Read more