Offenses
Ceremony Honors Victims' Rights Advocates
An unexpected hero who stopped a shooter in a diner, a lawyer dedicated to delivering services to victims in remote Indian County, a mother who lost her 18-year-old daughter to murder.
These are three of the 12 extraordinary individuals and one team honored during the annual ceremony for the National Crime Victims' Service Awards, which took place in Washington, DC, April 12. The Department...
A quasi-experimental synthetic control evaluation of a place-based police-directed patrol intervention on violent crime Journal of Experimental Criminology
Evaluating the Los Angeles Crime Gun Intelligence Center
Evaluation of the Milwaukee Police Department's Crime Gun Intelligence Center
Crime Gun Intelligence Center Practices: Lessons Learned From the Field
Investigating Violent Crime: The Prosecutors Role - Lessons Learned From the Field
What is a Crime Gun Intelligence Center? Overview for Local Law Enforcement
Justice Department Awards $145 Million to Advance Forensic Science
Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in Large Cities, 2018
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) / Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation Interagency Working Group (MDI-IWG) Resource Page
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established this Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) Interagency Working Group (MDI-IWG) to coordinate Federal initiatives to strengthen the MDI system and support death investigation services practiced by medical examiner and coroner offices (ME/Cs) across the United States. The MDI-IWG...
National Institute of Justice, Annual Report 2017
Gangs
There is no single definition of a gang, but there are a number of widely accepted criteria for classifying groups as gangs (Decker and Curry, 2003; Esbensen et al., 2001; Klein, 1995; Miller, 1992; Spergel, 1995). This review used the following criteria: (1) the group has three or more members, generally aged 12-24; (2) members share an identity, typically linked to a name and/or symbols...