This Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) National Training and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC) and Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) webinar will highlight the exciting work of the BJA-funded Nationwide Crime Analysis Capability Building Project.
Many criminal investigators and analysts have heard of VPNs, proxies, and Tor. Most would not feel comfortable conducting an investigation in which one of these tools was deployed. Similarly, both the Deepnet and Darknet are widely discussed, but often not understood. At the same time, criminal investigators and analysts increasingly are required to conduct investigations and collect criminal intelligence information in these spaces or when these tools are being used.
When a person visits a website, blog, or social media platform, information about the person is visible to the site administrator, blogger, or social media company. This information can be used by a criminal investigator or analyst to identify and locate a suspect. It can also be used by a criminal to identify, compromise, and potentially locate an investigator. It is vitally important that investigators and analysts collecting information from the Internet, or communicating in a covert capacity on the Internet, understand these potential investigative leads and possible vulnerabilities.
This event is part of the Neil A. Weiner Research Speaker Series at the Vera Institute of Justice.
This Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA) webinar will introduce participants to the basics of institutional review boards (IRBs), including the need for them and when to submit research protocols for review to an IRB. At the end of the webinar participants should be familiar with the following concepts/questions:
Project TEAM technical assistance staff will be onsite to assist the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Court, the U.S. Attorney's office in Billings, Montana, and the U.S. District Court in Billings, Montana to create an adult substance use wellness court.