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Painting the Current Picture: A National Report on Treatment Courts in the United States
Two-year Review of Firearm-related DNA Casework Evidence: A Triage Process to Improve Quality and Efficiency
Tribal Legal Code Resource: Juvenile Justice - Guide for Drafting or Revising Tribal Juvenile Delinquency and Status Offense Laws
Considerations for Social Media Monitoring & Response
Collecting Lawfully Owed DNA
Social Media and Domestic Radicalization
Development and Testing of a Communication Intervention to Improve Chronic Pain Management in Primary Care A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial
Gunshot Detection: Reducing Gunfire through Acoustic Technology
Best Practices Leveraging Computer-Aided Dispatch to Enhance Suspicious Activity Reporting
Policing the largest drug market on the eastern seaboard: officer perspectives on enforcement and community safety
Effect of a Multimodal Analgesic Protocol on Short-Term and Long-Term Opioid Use After Orthopaedic Trauma
Do body-worn cameras reduce disparities in police behavior in minority communities? Evidence of nuanced influences across Black and Hispanic neighborhoods
Examining Walking-Waiting Sexual Assaults from Previously Untested Sexual Assault Kits: The Intersection of Stranger and Outdoor Sexual Assaults
The Value and Validity of Self-Reported Survey Data on the Rape Experiences of College Students
Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA): Snitching, Sexuality, and Normalizing Deviance
Investigating the prevalence and utility of police body-worn cameras in the George Floyd protests
Interdiction Technologies and Strategies for Contraband Cell Phones
The Relationship between Police Contacts for Drug Use-related Crime and Future Arrests, Incarceration, and Overdoses: A Retrospective Observational Study Highlighting the Need to Break the Vicious Cycle
Understanding the Geography of Rape through the Integration of Data: Case Study of a Prolific, Mobile Serial Stranger Rapist Identified through Rape Kits
Prevalence and risk factors for opioid related mortality among probation clients in an American city
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