In a report published by the Police Foundation and Major Cities Chiefs Association in January 2017, major city and county law enforcement executives stated that of all of the tools and resources available to them in preventing and reducing violent crime, specifically gun violence, ballistic imaging tools were the most helpful, followed by gun tracing tools.
Disproportionate minority contact (DMC) remains a major issue within the juvenile justice system. The Sentencing Project has undertaken new research on the issue of DMC to discover the rate at which youth of color are incarcerated as compared to their white peers. Their new findings show that African-American youth are five times more likely to be incarcerated than white youth, while Native-American youth are three times more likely to be incarcerated than white youth.
This National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges webinar will highlight the need for authentic family and youth engagement in work with the School-Justice Partnership Project, with an emphasis on the challenge of engaging parents, other caregivers, and youth in diversion opportunities that address behavioral health needs.
This webinar will focus on the North Carolina Medical Examiner System and the toxicology laboratory that serves the system. Included will be information on the changing landscape of death certification and changes to the laboratory approach to testing.
This webinar will describe the role that the reference material manufacturer plays by providing the tools needed to respond to the current opioid epidemic.
In this webinar, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will present an overview of the opioid overdose epidemic and its public health burden, followed by a description of the multifaceted public health approach.
Hosted by the Clean Slate Clearinghouse, with funding support from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance
This Justice Clearinghouse webinar will examine evidence-based policy (EBP) development.
EBP is an approach that helps decisionmakers develop well-informed decisions about policies, programs, and projects by putting the best available evidence from research at the heart of policy development and implementation.
Transformational forensics is a concept in which there is a commitment on the part of forensic science laboratories to collaborate with clients and stakeholders to identify needed change and creating a vision to guide that change so that our communities can become safer places for all to have an opportunity to reach their potential. With respect to gun-related crime, the chief need for the investigators is to have reliable, comprehensive, and timely intelligence with respect to the shooting activity that is occurring in the streets, an activity that is best determined using forensics.
On September 27, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. ET, the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Training and Technical Assistance Center (TTAC) will present an online Expert Q&A discussion on "Victim-Centered Approaches to Family Violence."