NIJ Archives

Using Research to Improve Hate Crime Reporting and Identification

Hate crimes harm whole communities. They are message crimes that tell all members of a group—not just the immediate victims—that they are unwelcome and at risk. The damage that bias victimizati...

Investigations

Expert Panel Issues New Best Practices Guide for Cold Case Investigations

Cold case statistics paint a bleak picture with an even bleaker outlook, if trends persist. An estimated 242,000 unresolved homicides occurred in the United States from 1980 to 2016. Overall, roughly...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Eyewitness Identifications: A National Survey on Procedures

To learn what agencies across the United States are doing about eyewitness identification, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) a grant to develop...