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• Director's Message

• Clearing Up Homicide Clearance Rates by Charles Wellford and James Cronin
  
  
• Drug-Facilitated Rape: Looking for the Missing Pieces by Nora Fitzgerald and K. Jack Riley
  
  
• Can We Talk? Public Safety and the Interoperability Challenge by Brenna Smith and Tom Tolman
  
  
• Departing Thoughts From an NIJ Director by Jeremy Travis and Alfred Blumstein
  
  
• Youth Violence: Do Parents and Families Make a Difference? by Laurence Steinberg

• Recent Research Findings

• New & Noteworthy, Events, and Solicitations & Awards
  

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