All Topics A - Z
- A -
Action Research, and Gun Violence Prevention
Active Denial System (Less-Lethal Technology)
Agroterrorism (See NIJ Journal Article "Agroterrorism—Why We’re Not Ready: A Look at the Role of Law Enforcement")
Arrests and Dual Arrests, Intimate Partner Violence
Arson, Scene Investigation Guide
Automobiles and Traffic Safety, Mapping and Analysis Projects
- B -
Ballistic Resistance, see Body Armor
Batterer Intervention (See the NIJ Report Batterer Intervention: Where Do We Go From Here? and related workshop notes)
Bombing and Explosion Scene Investigation Guide
Boot Camps (See NIJ Research for Practice "Correctional Boot Camps: Lessons From a Decade of Research")
Bulletproof Vests, see Body Armor
- C -
Cellular Digital Packet Data, Migrating
Cold Case, Solving with DNA (DNA.gov)
- Cellular Digital Packet Data, Migrating
- Interoperability, Communications
- Narrowbanding, Understanding FCC Requirements
- Radios
- Voice over Internet Protocol
Community Policing (See NIJ Report "Fighting Crime with COPS & Citizens: A 4-Year Study of the COPS Program" and other publications on community policing)
Computer crime, see Electronic Crime
Computer Forensics, Testing Tools (See also Electronic Crime)
Conducted Energy Devices (Less-lethal Technology)
Corruption, International (See Transnational Organized Crime)
Courts
- Digital Evidence in the Courtroom: A Guide for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors
- Domestic Violence Courts
- Drug Courts
- Specialized Courts
Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program
Crime Mapping, see Mapping and Analysis
Crime Scene Investigation Guides
- General Crime Scenes
- Death Scenes
- Bomb and Explosion Scenes
- Fire and Arson Scenes
- Electronic Crime Scene Investigation
Cybercrime, see Electronic Crime
- D -
Data Sharing, Law Enforcement (See Information-led Policing)
Dating Violence, and Teens (See Teen Dating Violence Workshop Proceedings)
Death Investigation, Scene Investigation Guide
Delinquency, Prevention, (See also NIJ Research in Brief Toward Safe and Orderly Schools—The National Study of Delinquency Prevention in Schools)
Digital Evidence, see Electronic Crime
Directed Police Patrols, to Prevent Gun Violence
Displacement (See Do Prevention and Deterrence Programs Displace Crime to Other Areas?)
DNA, Forensic
Domestic Violence, see Intimate Partner Violence
Drives Licences, Photo Sharing Among Agencies
Drug Treatment, Medication Assisted
- E -
Economic Distress and Intimate Partner Violence
Electro-muscular Disruption Technology, (See Conducted Energy Devices)
- Computer Forensics Testing Tools
- Digital Evidence in the Courtroom: A Guide for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors
- Forensic Examination of Digital Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement
Evaluations, Programs (See NIJ Journal article "Maximize Your Evaluation Dollars")
Evidence:
- Crime Scene Guides for Law Enforcement
- Eyewitness Identification
- Digital Evidence
- Computer Forensic Testing Tools
- Digital Evidence in the Courtroom: A Guide for Law Enforcement and Prosecutors
- Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders, Second Edition
- Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: An On-the-Scene Reference for First Responders
- Forensic Examination of Digital Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement
- DNA Evidence(DNA.gov)
- Fingerprint Sourcebook
- Unanalyzed Evidence in Law Enforcement Custody
Exonerations, see Postconviction, DNA Testing
Explosion and Bombing Scene Investigation Guide
Expert Systems (See NIJ Journal article "Expert Systems Help Labs Process DNA Samples")
- F -
Familicide, Murder-Suicide in Families
Family violence (See Violence Against Women & Family Violence)
Fatigue, Stress and Work Hours
Fingerprinting
Firearms
- Gun Violence
- Gun Violence Prevention
- Gun Violence, Publications
- 0112.03, NIJ Standard, Autoloading Pistols for Police Officers
- Youths, Gangs and Guns
Foreclosures, Using Geographic Information Systems to Assess Influence on Crime
- Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program
- Forensic DNA
- Forensics Laboratories (DNA.gov)
- Forensic Laboratory Enhancement funding
- Services for Laboratories (DNA.gov)
- Forensic Laboratory Enhancement Funding
- Grants Management System (GMS), Training and Technical Assistance
- Grants.gov, Getting Started (Grants.gov)
- Solicitations
- G -
Gangs, Youth (See Youths, Gangs and Guns)
Gateways, interoperability (See Interoperability Gateways/Interconnects)
Grants (see Funding)
Grants Management System (GMS), Training and Technical Assistance
Grants.gov, Getting Started (Grants.gov)
Gun Violence, see Firearms
- H -
- How to Identify Hot Spots
- Reading a Crime Map
- Why Crimes Occur in Hot Spots
- Helping Law Enforcement Identify, Predict and Respond to Hot Spots
- Resources for Maps
- Geography & Public Safety, Volume 1, Issue 1 (pdf, 16 pages)
- Mapping Crime: Understanding Hot Spots, NIJ Report
- I -
Identity Theft (See NIJ Report Identity Theft—A Research Review)
Indian Country (See Tribal Crime and Justice)
Industries, Prison (See NIJ Journal article "Factories Behind Fences: Do Prison ‘Real Work’ Programs Work?
Information Systems and Technology (See Communication Technologies or Information-led Policing )
Interoperability, Communications
- J -
Judicial Oversight in Domestic Violence Courts, Preventing Pretrial Abuse
Juvenile Justice, (See NIJ publications on juvenile justice or the Office for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention)
- K -
Knives, Protection Against (see Stab Resistance of Personal Body Armor [NIJ Standard-0115.00])
- L -
Laboratory, Enhancement Funding
- Eyewitness Identification
- Handling Evidence
- Hot Spots Policing
- Information-led Policing
- Officer Stress and Fatigue
- Predictive Policing
- Publications on Law Enforcement
- Pursuit Management
- Traffic Safety
Lineups, simultaneous vs. sequential
- M -
- Districting and Resource Allocation, Geography & Public Safety, Volume 1, Issue 3 (pdf, 20 pages)
- Geographic profiling
- Geospatial Tools
- Home Foreclosures, Geography & Public Safety, Volume 1, Issue 3 (pdf, 20 pages)
- Hot Spots, see Hot Spot Policing
- Sex Offender Residency Restrictions, Geography & Public Safety, Volume 2, Issue 1 (pdf, 16 pages)
- Traffic Safety
Megan's Law, Evaluation of Sex Offender Registration and Notification Laws in New Jersey
Mental Health (See NIJ Research for Practice Mental Health Screens for Corrections)
Methamphetamine (See NIJ Journal article "Methamphetamine Abuse: Challenges for Law Enforcement and Communities")
Missing persons (See NIJ Journal article "Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains: The Nation's Silent Mass Disaster")
- N -
Narrowbanding (See Understanding FCC Narrowbanding Requirements)
National Clearinghouse on Science, Technology and Law (NCSTL) Exit Notice
National Criminal Justice Reference Services (NCJRS)
National Forensic Sciences Technology Center (NFSTC) Exit Notice
National Forensic Science Improvement Act (See Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program)
National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) Exit Notice
Native Americans (See Tribal Crime and Justice)
- O -
Officer Work Hours, Stress and Fatigue
Organized Crime, Transnational
Over-the-Air (OTA) Communications Improvements
- P -
Policing, see Law Enforcement
Postconviction, DNA Testing
- Recommendations for Handling Postconviction Requests
- Postconviction Stories
- Funding for Postconviction Testing
- NIJ Postconviction DNA Symposium
Pretrial Domestic Violence Abuse, Preventing
Property Crimes, and Forensic DNA
Property Rooms, Unanalyzed Evidence in Law Enforcement Custody
- Q -
Quality Assurance Standards, for Forensic Laboratories (DNA.gov)
Quality Documents, for Forensic Laboratories (DNA.gov)
- R -
Radios, Smart/Software Defined
- Reentry, Women (See NIJ Journal article "Reentry Programs for Women Inmates")
- Publications on Reentry, Probation and Parole
- S -
Sedatives, Less-Lethal Technology (see NIJ Journal article "Calming Down: Could Sedative Drugs Be a Less-Lethal Option?"
Sentencing, truth in sentencing (see NIJ Journal article "Truth in Sentencing and State Sentencing Practices")
Sex Offenders
- Evaluation of Registration and Notification Laws (Megan's Law) in New Jersey
- Residency Restrictions and Mapping
Shelters, for Domestic Violence Vicitms
Software, Mapping and Analysis Research Projects
Solicitations (see Funding)
Stab, Resistance (See Body Armor and Stab Resistance of Personal Body Armor [NIJ Standard-0115.00])
Statistics — NIJ does not collect national or local crime statistics. See:
- Developing Technology Standards
- Collaborating Agencies
- Active NIJ Standards
- Standards Under Development
- Equipment Testing
- Inactive NIJ Standards
Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI)
Stress, Fatigue and Work Hours
Suicide Terrorism (See NIJ Journal Article "Analyzing Terror: Researchers Study the Perpetrators and the Effects of Suicide Terrorism")
Surveillance, Equipment (See Video Surveillance Equipment Selection and Application Guide [NIJ Guide 201-99])
Surveillance, Through-the-Wall Surveillance (See the NIJ Journal article Through-the-Wall Surveillance: A New Technology for Saving Lives)
- T -
Taser (See Conducted Energy Devices)
Technology; Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation Process
Telephony, and Voice over Internet Protocol
- Agroterrorism
- Criminal Justice Response, Improving Organization, Structure, and Culture
- Publications on Terrorism
- Suicide Terrorists
- Terrorism Databases for Analysis
- Using 911 Calls to Detect Terrorism Threats
Through-the-Wall Surveillance (See the NIJ Journal article Through-the-Wall Surveillance: A New Technology for Saving Lives)
Traffic Safety, Using Geographic Information Systems to Analyze
Trafficking in persons (see Human Trafficking)
- U -
Unidentified remains (See NIJ Journal article "Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains: The Nation's Silent Mass Disaster")
Use of Force (See also Deciding When and How to Use Less-Lethal Devices)
- V -
Vests, Bullet Resistant, see Body Armor
- Help for Victms from the Office for Victims of Crime)
- Victims, Satisfaction (See NIJ Journal article "Victim Satisfaction With the Criminal Justice System")
- W -
Weapons
- Standards (See Autoloading Pistols for Police Officers: NIJ Standard-0112.03)
- Weapons, detection (See NIJ Journal article Detecting Concealed Weapons: Directions for the Future)
- X -
X-Ray Systems (See the NIJ Guide Portable X-Ray Systems for Use in Bomb Identification and the NIJ Journal article Detecting Concealed Weapons: Directions for the Future)
- Y -
Youth gangs, firearms (See Youths, Gangs and Guns)
- # -
0101.06, NIJ Standard, Ballistic Resistance of Personal Body Armor (Replaces NIJ Standard 0101.04)
0115.00, NIJ Standard, Stab Resistance of Personal Body Armor
0112.03, NIJ Standard, Autoloading Pistols for Police Officers
0603.01, NIJ Standard, Portable X-Ray Systems for Use in Bomb Identification
911, to Detect Terrorism Threats (See NIJ Journal article Using 911 Calls to Detect Terrorism Threats)

