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Strengthening the National Institute of Justice (Paperback)
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The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the nation's primary
resource for advancing scientific research, development, and
evaluation on crime and crime control and the administration of
justice in the United States. Headed by a presidentially appointed
director, it is one of the major units in the Office of Justice
Programs (OJP) of the U.S. Department of Justice. Under its
authorizing legislation, NIJ awards grants and contracts to a
variety of public and private organizations and individuals. At the
request of NIJ, "Strengthening the National Institute of Justice"
assesses the operations and quality of the full range of its
programs. These include social science research, science and
technology research and development, capacity building, and
technology assistance. The book concludes that a federal research
institute such as NIJ is vital to the nation's continuing efforts
to control crime and administer justice. No other federal, state,
local, or private organization can do what NIJ was created to do.
Forty years ago, Congress envisioned a science agency dedicated to
building knowledge to support crime prevention and control by
developing a wide range of techniques for dealing with individual
offenders, identifying injustices and biases in the administration
of justice, and supporting more basic and operational research on
crime and the criminal justice system and the involvement of the
community in crime control efforts. As the embodiment of that
vision, NIJ has accomplished a great deal. It has succeeded in
developing a body of knowledge on such important topics as hot
spots policing, violence against women, the role of firearms and
drugs in crime, drug courts, and forensic DNA analysis. It has
helped build the crime and justice research infrastructure. It has
also widely disseminated the results of its research programs to
help guide practice and policy. But its efforts have been severely
hampered by a lack of independence, authority, and discretionary
resources to carry out its mission.
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