Violence was declining and the decrease may have been more pronounced among youth in CBVP areas.
Category: Monographs
Street by Street: Chapter 7
Violence in Newark may have simply followed a pattern common to other large cities in New Jersey.
Street by Street: Chapter 8
The CBVP program may have improved communities, but the study could not identify consistent effects.
Reclaiming Futures and Organizing Justice for Drug-Using Youth
Reclaiming Futures assumes that positive youth outcomes are achieved when service delivery systems are closely coordinated and provide just the right amount of individualized help with the least possible amount of coercion.
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in the Local Public Safety Environment
This paper reviews the basic characteristics and capabilities of unmanned aerial systems–also called “unmanned aerial vehicles” (UAVs), “remotely piloted aircrafts (RPAs), or simply “drones”–and the potential that they bring in improving first responder operations.
Emerging Technologies and the Need for Evaluation
The growing influence of technology is creating a new urgency for criminal justice reform, but the decentralized development of programs makes it difficult to track promising projects or bring them to scale. Justice stakeholders are faced with the challenge of assessing technical innovations while they often lack the tools and resources to meet the challenge.