Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Registration | 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
| Capitol Foyer
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Concurrent Panels Recent Findings for Improving Batterer Interventions | | 8:30 am - 10:00 am | Salon D | | This panel will present findings from the National Institute of Justice research portfolio aimed at domestic violence battering and batterer intervention. This research continues to provide practitioners with results that enable them to better understand and reduce the incidence of this crime. The panelists represent both the researcher and the practitioner perspective. The discussion will draw on varying aspects of batterer intervention, including the effect of adding a mental health component to batterer intervention and the use of a validated instrument to measure a batterer's resistance to change. Moderator Nicole D. Gaskin-Laniyan, Social Science Analyst, Violence and Victimization Research Division, Office of Research and Evaluation, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Edward W. Gondolf, Research Director, Mid-Atlantic Addiction Training Institute, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA Deborah A. Levesque, Director of Health Behavior Change Programs, Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., Kingston, RI Discussant Dick Bathrick, Director of Programs, Men Stopping Violence, Decatur, GA |
Applications of Operations Research to the Criminal Justice System | | 8:30 am - 10:00 am | Salon E
| | Operations research techniques, such as simulation, probability modeling, and optimization have been used successfully in industry and military applications, but only a handful of applications have been developed for the criminal justice system. This session will feature three panelists who have successfully applied operations research to criminal justice problems. They will discuss a retrospective of the application of operational research to criminal justice issues; the progress of a system dynamics project that is in development at the University of Albany; and logistical applications, such as improving dispatching, expediting the arrest-to-arraignment process, and reducing costs and risks associated with congestion and bottlenecks. Moderator Iara C. Infosino, Operations Research Analyst, Research and Technology Development Division, Office of Science and Technology, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Alfred Blumstein, Professor, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Richard C. Larson, Director, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Roderick H. MacDonald, Director, Initiative for System Dynamics in the Public Sector, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University of Albany, Albany, NY |
Benefits of Drug and Alcohol Free Housing for Ex-Offenders | | 8:30 am - 10:00 am | Salon F
| | This panel will present preliminary results from two studies providing innovative methods for increasing success with drug and alcohol-dependent offenders. The panelists will focus on a congressionally mandated drug and alcohol-free housing program in Washington County, Oregon, and on a study of support and employment assistance to released offenders. The information presented will be especially relevant for anyone interested in drug and alcohol treatment, reentry, corrections, housing, or therapeutic courts. Moderator Kerri Vitalo-Logan, State Policy Advisor, Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Robin Breckenridge, Lead Outreach Coordinator, Recovery Association Project, Oregon Recovery Homes, Portland, OR Michael Finigan, President, Northwest Professional Consortium, Inc., West Linn, OR John Hartner, Director, Washington County Community Corrections, Hillsboro, OR |
Incarcerated Mothers, Their Children, and the Nexus With Foster Care | | 8:30 am - 10:00 am | Salon G
| | Foster care and adult correctional institutions must work together for the benefit of both the incarcerated mother and her children. The National Institute of Justice, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust, and the Open Society Institute funded a landmark study that correlated maternal prison admissions with various administrative data (e.g., quarterly wage records, Medicaid and school records, and others) in Illinois over a ten-year span. The sample included an estimated 14,000 incarcerated women and approximately 35,000 of their children. The panel will review the findings from this study, and attendees will learn truths and myths about incarcerated mothers and their children. Moderator Marilyn C. Moses, Social Science Analyst, Justice Systems Research Division, Office of Research and Evaluation, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Susan M. George, Clinical Psychologist, Department of Women's Justice Services, Cook County Sheriff's Department, Chicago, IL Ann L. Jacobs, Executive Director, Women's Prison Association, New York, NY Robert J. LaLonde, Professor, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
10:00 am - 10:15 am Break
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Concurrent Panels
Court-Based Responses to Intimate Partner Violence:
Findings From the Judicial Oversight Demonstration | | 10:15 am - 11:45 am | Salon D
| | The Judicial Oversight Demonstration Project (JOD), created court-centered partnerships among justice agencies, community-based victims' advocates, and batterer intervention providers at three locations. Panelists will present final results from the six-year evaluation of JOD's impact on victims and offenders. Aimed at researchers, practitioners, and policymakers interested in domestic violence and court reform, the presentation will provide data on outcomes from the intervention, guidance on implementation strategies, and lessons for those interested in replication. Moderator Angela Moore Parmley, Chief, Violence and Victimization Division, Office of Research and Evaluation, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Sydney Hanlon, First Justice, Dorchester Municipal Court, Massachusetts Trial Court, Dorchester, MA Adele Harrell, Principal Research Associate, Justice Policy Center, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC Lisa C. Newmark, Crime Victim Consultant, Fairfax, VA |
Correctional Officer Safety | | 10:15 am - 11:45 am | Salon E
| | The Bureau of Justice Statistics report, "Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 1990" found that States reported 10,731 assaults by inmates on prison staff. By 1995, BJS reports that the number had risen to 14,165 and resulted in the deaths of 14 employees, and by 2000 the annual number reported was 17,952, with five resulting in deaths. How can we better protect correctional officers who interact with inmates on a daily basis? The panel will focus on safety concerns in today's prisons and jails, including inmate cell phone use and how common items can be made into weapons. Moderator Gary D. MacLellan, Program Manager, Research and Technology Development Division, Office of Science and Technology, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Paul J. Biermann, Senior Professional Staff, Technical Services Department, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD Patricia L. Caruso, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections, Lansing, MI James Mahan, Senior Technologist, Office of Security Technology, Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC |
Applying Technology to Protect the Public From Concealed Weapons | | 10:15 am - 11:45 am | Salon F
| | While metal detection portals are less invasive and faster than a physical search, they provide less assurance of detecting potential weapons and may not detect non-metallic weapons. A new class of technologies is being developed that can detect both metallic and non-metallic weapons at a safe distance. Focusing on imaging technologies, this session will include an overview of the functional requirements for concealed weapons detection and potential technical approaches to meeting those requirements. The panelists will discuss millimeter wave and infrared cameras, and the privacy and policy implications of using these cutting-edge technologies. Moderator Christopher Miles, Senior Program Manager, Research and Technology Development Division, Office of Science and Technology, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Peter J. Costianes, Lead Center Technologist for Concealed Weapons Detection, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY Randy Rossi, Director, Firearms Division, California Department of Justice, Sacramento, CA |
Current Research on Child Victimization | | 10:15 am - 11:45 am | Salon G | | This panel will present current research from the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, which focuses on child sexual abuse, bullying, Internet victimization, and the characteristics of predators and Internet crimes against children and youth. The Center's research explores common perceptions of the characteristics and prevalence of crimes against children and uses data from random digit dialing household surveys and law enforcement to inform researchers and practitioners about environments and contexts in which children are at risk. Moderator Karen R. Stern, Program Manager, Demonstration Programs Division, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Christine Feller, Supervisor, Child Victim Identification Program, Exploited Child Unit, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Alexandria, VA David Finkelhor, Director, Crimes Against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH Janis Wolak, Research Assistant Professor, Crimes Against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NC |
Terrorism Databases: Findings and Practical Applications | | 10:15 am - 11:45 am | Salon IV
| | The dearth of information available on terrorist groups and their activities led the National Institute of Justice to support the creation, verification, and examination of two important sources of data on domestic and foreign terrorist activities. The first dataset was developed from The American Terrorism Study, using case files from U.S. Federal Court cases. The second dataset involved a unique database collected and maintained by the Pinkerton Corporation's Global Intelligence Service. Both datasets have been analyzed, and this is the first time that the findings will be presented in a joint setting. The panel will incorporate primary research and practice to demonstrate the importance of NIJ's research efforts. Moderator Sandra L. Woerle, Social Science Analyst, Justice Systems Research Division, Office of Research and Evaluation, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Gary LaFree, Director, National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Brent L. Smith, Director, Terrorism Research Center, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR Discussant John P. Jarvis, Behavioral Science Instructor, FBI Academy, U.S. Department of Justice, Quantico, VA |
Luncheon and Presentation NIJ's Body Armor Program: Thirty Years - 3,000 Saves | | 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Salons I/II/III
| | NIJ's body armor standards and testing program has been a hallmark of NIJ's legacy of service to criminal justice. Last summer marked 30 years since NIJ launched its body armor program with a field test of 5,000 prototype armors issued to 15 urban police departments. The first save from that field test occurred on December 23, 1975, in Seattle Washington. The 3,000th documented save was recorded earlier this year. Meet the pioneers who launched NIJ's body armor standards and testing program. Hear the dramatic stories behind Save Number 1 and Save Number 3,000 and meet the law enforcement officers whose lives were saved. Moderator Glenn R. Schmitt, Acting Director, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Speakers Paul J. McNulty, Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Mary Ann Viverette, President, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Gaithersburg, MD Honorees Corey B. Grogan, Police Officer, Atlanta Police Department, Atlanta, GA Raymond T. Johnson, Seattle Police Department (retired), Kent, WA Nicholas Montanarelli, Project Manager (retired), Light Weight Body Armor, U.S. Army, Bel Air, MD Lester D. Shubin, Project Manager(retired), National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Fairfax, VA
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Concurrent Panels Critical Components for Responding to Victims of Human Trafficking | | 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Salon D
| | This panel will discuss a recent three-year evaluation on the impact of efforts to deliver services and assistance to victims of human trafficking. Panelists will provide an overview of the final evaluation report and discuss critical components of the Federal, State, and local responses for successfully identifying and serving victims and investigating and prosecuting traffickers. Training, technical assistance, and funding resources available to assist law enforcement and victim service providers with anti-trafficking initiatives and service provision for victims of trafficking will also be discussed. Moderator Mary R. Atlas-Terry, Social Services Program Specialist, Program Development and Dissemination Division, Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Heather Clawson, Vice President, Caliber, an ICF International Company, Fairfax, VA Terry Coonan, Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Human Rights, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Ivy Lee, Program Director, Department of Trafficking and Immigration, Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, San Francisco, CA |
Technology, Research, and Practice: Introducing and Assessing a
Multi-Disciplinary Domestic Violence Communication System | | 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Salon E
| | According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institute of Justice research, more than one million women are stalked, two million women are injured, and 1,300 women are killed by intimate partners annually. Losses to health and productivity as a result of intimate partner violence exceed $5.8 billion per year. This panel will introduce the Domestic Violence Communication System (DVCS), a project funded by NIJ to develop an alert and messaging system between criminal justice and victim service agencies in the San Diego area. Following an operational overview of the DVCS, a practitioner from the San Diego Police Department will discuss how the system is used in the field. Moderator Karen J. Bachar, Social Science Analyst, Violence and Victimization Research Division, Office of Research and Evaluation, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Monica Kaiser, Lieutenant, Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse Unit, San Diego Police Department, San Diego, CA Patrick E. McKnight, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Pamela Scanlon, Executive Director, Automated Regional Justice Information System, San Diego, CA |
Cutting-Edge Technologies to Deny Criminals
Free Access to the Community | | 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Salon F
| | Throughout the Nation, perpetrators are often able to stake out crime locations, flee those locations and move freely around, or live within our communities, even after warrants have been issued for their arrest. Fortunately for law enforcement today, several cutting-edge technologies are available to monitor public spaces for criminal activity. This session will focus on the use of license plate reading and facial recognition technologies, and the presenters will discuss the implications of these technologies for privacy and police policy. They will also review best practices for video use, new standards and minimum performance requirements for law enforcement applications of video technology, and the impact of proper use of video on crime. Moderator Christopher Miles, Senior Program Manager, Research and Technology Development Division, Office of Science and Technology, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Andy Bucholz, Board Member, G2Tactics, Inc., Alexandria, VA Scott McCallum, Systems Analyst, Technical Services Division, Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Clearwater, FL Richard W. Vorder Bruegge, Forensic Examiner, Forensic Audio, Video, and Image Analysis Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Quantico, VA |
Code of the Street: Understanding Justice, Decency, Violence,
and Aggression in the Inner City | | 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Salon G
| | Elijah Anderson's award-winning and widely-read ethnography, Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, notes that inner city Black America is often viewed as a place where random violence occurs. However, Dr. Anderson's work suggests that violence in our cities is actually regulated through an informal but well-known "code of the street." This code has evolved as an unwritten set of rules designed to regulate the way people negotiate their lives and survive in the often oppressive and impoverished conditions of America's inner cities. The panel will discuss Dr. Anderson's thesis and review results from recent research. Moderator Rhonda M. Jones, Chief, Planning and Management Division, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Elijah Anderson, Charles and William Day Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Eric A. Stewart, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO Discussant Tio Hardiman, Director of Gang Mediation Services, School of Public Health, The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention, Chicago, IL |
Prisoner Reentry | | 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Salon IV
| | The Office of Justice Programs funds prisoner reentry programs in an effort to reduce the number of prisoners who are rearrested. This workshop will review prisoner reentry evaluations being conducted by the Research Triangle Institute and the Urban Institute for the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative and by Abt Associates for the Fortune Society Program. The presentations will set forth the innovations made, and challenges faced, by program staff and evaluators. The panel also will present findings from an employment study on offenders and ex-offenders funded by the National Institute of Justice. This study involves the first national review of recidivism and post-release employment of state prison inmates who were employed in private sector prison industries. Moderator Laurie C. Bright, Senior Social Science Analyst, Justice Systems Research Division, Office of Research and Evaluation, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Pamela K. Lattimore, Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Douglas McDonald, Principal Associate, Abt Associates Inc., Cambridge, MA Cindy J. Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Social Policy, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Break
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Concurrent Panels
Strategies for Reducing Gang and Gun Violence:
Findings From Project Safe Neighborhoods Cities | | 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Salon D
| | A major concern for many U.S. cities is the high level of gang-related homicides and gun violence. In the past decade, inroads have been made through such efforts as Boston Ceasefire, the ten-city Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative, and the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Initiative of the U.S. Department of Justice. These local-level, strategic problem solving efforts have teamed criminal justice and allied professionals with research and community outreach partners and have had an impact on reducing gang homicides and gun violence in their communities. The panelists will describe intervention strategies in two PSN cities, Chicago and St. Louis, and will cite evidence of their effectiveness in reducing targeted crimes. They will also provide an overview of gang strategies in PSN districts nationwide and discuss how they have been integrated with other PSN strategies to reduce gang and gun violence. The strategies involve cities of various sizes with differing gang and gun violence problems. Moderator Lois Felson Mock, Senior Social Science Analyst, Crime Control and Prevention Research Division, Office of Research and Evaluation, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Scott H. Decker, Chair and Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ Andrew V. Papachristos, Research Associate, Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Discussant Edmund F. McGarrell, Director and Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI |
Girls and Delinquency: New Findings and Recent Studies | | 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Salon E
| | This panel will highlight findings of two projects from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention that focus on girls and delinquency: the Girls Study Group, and the Girls in Recovery from Life Stress (GIRLS) study at the University of Connecticut Health Center. The panelists will discuss how unanticipated findings about trends in girls' violence and findings related to the causes of female delinquency caused the study group to (1) assess how to communicate the unexpected results to the field and (2) engage the field in a dialogue on how to respond. Panelists will also review evidence-based prevention and treatment programs for girls and risk and needs assessment instruments used for case-level decisionmaking about placement and services. The panelist from the GIRLS project will discuss a post-traumatic stress disorder treatment program being tested in Connecticut with adolescent girls who are at high risk for delinquency and will discuss challenges and opportunities for practitioners. Moderator Janet Chiancone, Research Coordinator, Research and Program Development Division, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters Anne Marie Ambrose, Director, Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Harrisburg, PA Julian Ford, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT Margaret A. Zahn, Senior Research Analyst, Center for Crime, Violence, and Justice Research, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC |
Simulation-Based Training for Law Enforcement | | 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Salon F
| | Law enforcement needs fast, flexible, focused, and affordable training. Simulation-based training is now widely used by law enforcement agencies across the nation as a tool to augment conventional training. This panel will present three types of applications of simulation-based training. The first is a computer-generated imagery (CGI) system to improve tactics and decision making on the use of force and choice of weapon. The second is a computer-based training tool kit on agency policies and procedures. It includes a video-based simulation training tool, an administrative records tool, and a reference manager tool. The third is a three dimensional floor plan of a correctional facility, where a single user can walk through a simulated scenario (e.g., a prison riot) and use less lethal weapons to understand how the weapons work, how the targets may respond to them, and how that response will change the group dynamic. Moderator Iara C. Infosino, Operations Research Analyst, Research and Technology Development Division, Office of Science and Technology, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC Presenters John S. Shaffer, Executive Deputy Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Camp Hill, PA Asuncion Simmonds, Research Engineer, Training Systems Division, Naval Air Systems Command, Orlando, FL Jerry Woods, Senior Engineer, Robotics Division, Scientific Applications and Research Associates, Inc. (SARA), Cypress, CA |
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