Welcome to the Justice Today podcast, where we explore cutting edge research and practices and offer an in-depth look at what we’re doing to meet the biggest public safety challenges of our time. Join us as we explore how funding, science and technology impact public safety and justice in today’s complex environment.
Featured Episode
Finding a Serial Killer—and Justice—After 40 Years
Episode Speakers: Detective Kari Johnson, Denver (Colorado) Police Department; Dr. Angela Williamson, Forensics Unit Supervisor, Bureau of Justice Assistance
During this episode, Detective Johnson and Dr. Williamson describe how decades of determined police work and cutting-edge forensic science identified Joe Michael Ervin as the person who assaulted and murdered four women between 1978 and 1981.
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Portraits of Recovery: Doreen Schenkenberger
A Conversation with Roberta Roper: The Evolution of Victims' Rights
A New Vision for NIJ with Director Nancy La Vigne
The Story of Veterans Treatment Courts: Judge Robert Russell
The Science of School Safety
What’s Possible with Rapid DNA Technology?
Robin Engel on Police Reform and Public Safety
Tribal Crime, Justice, and Safety (Part 2)
Stacy Lee Reynolds and Christine (Tina) Crossland continue their discussion of tribal crime, justice, and safety, including how Native American persons experience crime victimization at higher rates than non-Native people and the jurisdictional complexities in responding to tribal crime, justice, and safety. Read the transcript.
Listen to the first half of Stacy and Tina’s discussion.
Karhlton F. Moore and the Future of the Bureau of Justice Assistance
Community Violence Intervention
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Amy Solomon and Senior Advisor Eddie Bocanegra team up in this Justice Today podcast to discuss community violence intervention. Bocanegra discusses his own experience with gang violence and incarceration and his work in OJP to help the Biden Administration tackle community-based violence. This episode was recorded before the FY 2022 Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative grant solicitation closed.
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