146. PREVENTING CRIME:
URL - http://www.ncjrs.org/docfiles/wholedoc.doc
What works, what doesn’t, what’s promising
A report to the United States Congress. Prepared for the National Institute of Justice.
By Lawrence W. Sherman, Denise Gottfredson, Doris MacKenzie, John Eck, Peter Reuter, and Shawn Bushway, in collaboration with members of the Graduate Program (Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland)
156. Understanding Community Justice Partnerships: Assessing the Capacity To Partner
URL - http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/grants/196552.pdf
May 2003
By Caterina G. Roman, Gretchen E. Moore, Susan Jenkins, and Kevonne M. Small
Executive Summary:
The Urban Institute, in collaboration with Caliber Associates, has synthesized the current knowledge regarding the capacity of community organizations to engage as partners in strategies to prevent crime. The goal of this project is to review what is known about the role of community organizations in partnerships, and the myriad of contextual issues—social, economic, political and spatial—that challenge or foster their ability to effect positive change within partnership initiatives. This review will assist us in answering the following questions
171. The Drugs-Crime Wars: Past, Present, and Future Directions in Theory, Policy, and Program Interventions
URL - http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/194616d.pdf
July 2003
By Duane C. McBride, Curtis J. VanderWall, and Yvonne M. Terry-McElrath
Introduction
In this paper, we do not attempt to provide a comprehensive review of the issues or literature. Instead, we seek to provide a sufficient review of the most pertinent knowledge about the drugs-crime relationship to stimulate further discussion among researchers regarding the most important research questions that still need attention. This Discussion holds great promise for the development of new approaches to the drugs-rime relationship.
218. Police-Corrections Partnerships
URL - http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/175047.pdf
March 1999
By Dale Parent and Brad Snyder
This report describes police-corrections partnerships from various jurisdictions around the country. It analyzes the barriers the jurisdictions had to overcome to start their partnerships and the problems they had to solve to make them work as intended. Finally, it examines important issues that jurisdictions should consider when starting new police corrections partnerships.
222. Building an Effective Research Collaboration Between the Center for Public Policy at Temple University and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections: Final Report
URL - http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/grants/197067.pdf
October 24, 2002
By Wayne N. Welsh
The purpose of this project was to develop a collaborative research partnership between Temple
University’s Center for Public Policy (CPP) and Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ( DOC ), with a demonstration research project that included three main elements: 1) a descriptive assessment of Drug and Alcohol (D & A) programming (through surveys and a "mini conference" of D & A staw, including identification of critical service delivefy components and goals, 2) an intensive on-site process evaluation of representative drug and alcohol programs at two institutions, and 3) design of an outcome evaluation research design based on analyses of data collected at stages 1 and 2.
233. Case Management Reduces Drug Use and Criminality Among Drug-Involved Arrestees: An Experimental Study of an HIV Prevention Intervention
URL - http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/155281.pdf
By William Rhodes and Michael Gross
This report reflects an important linkage of both NIJ’s and NIDA’s interests in integrating critical public safety and public health approaches in working with drug-involved arrestees. The drug-crime nexus has joined NIDA and NIJ in a number of projects in the past, and our longstanding association has served as the foundation for current efforts to develop mutual research priorities in the area of drug-involved offenders. The study presented here amply demonstrates the wisdom and utility of such collaborative efforts, and we will continue to pursue them. We also would encourage further study of the approach explored here. The association of injection drug use with a considerable proportion of AIDS cases and HIV infections, and the promise held by the case management approach, make it imperative that such research be conducted and supported.
262. Integrating Drug Testing Into A Pretrial Services System: 1999 Update
URL - http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles1/bja/176340.txt
July 1999
Author: BJA
This document is an updated version of a 1992 monograph describing how to integrate drug testing into a jurisdiction’s pretrial services system. The original document was prepared before the advance of several technological developments in drug testing, including the expansion of hand-held devices to test for drug use and the introduction of the sweat patch. These two new approaches to drug testing, plus other approaches that are on the horizon, are described in this monograph.
268. Promising Strategies to Reduce Substance Abuse
URL - http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles1/ojp/183152.txt
Published September 2000
Forward
Drug and alcohol abuse, drug trafficking, and related criminal activity remain serious problems that affect the lives of most Americans. Under the leadership of President Clinton and in cooperation with the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the U.S. Department of Justice has promoted and pursued an approach that combines prevention, treatment, and enforcement to break the cycle of substance abuse and crime. Promising Strategies to Reduce Substance Abuse illustrates this approach through examples of programs that have been adopted successfully by communities across the country. We see this volume as a "toolbox" for elected state and local officials, law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, community organizers, and other policymakers. It contains practical information about a range of proven and promising strategies to reduce substance abuse.
290. Toward a Drugs and Crime Research Agenda for the 21st Century
URL - http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/194616.pdf
September 2003
By Henry Brownstein and Christine Crossland
This article covers three questions:
- What do we know about drugs and crime?
- What do we not know?
- What do we need to know?
299. Promoting Partnerships for Public Safety: FY 2002 Annual Report to Congress on Initiatives Funding by the Bureau of Justice AssistanceURL - http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/bja/200252.pdf
