MENU TITLE: NIJ Awards Under the Crime Act: Fiscal Year 1996 .
Series: NIJ Research in Brief
Published: July 1997
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U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
National Institute of Justice

Jeremy Travis, Director

Research in Brief
July 1997

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Contents

Community Policing                     
Law Enforcement Family Support Program      
Sentencing and Corrections             
Violence Against Women 
                
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NIJ Awards Under the Crime Act: Fiscal Year 1996

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
of 1994 (the Crime Act) is familiar to most
Americans, who know it means more police officers
are being hired, assault weapons are now banned,
tougher sanctions are imposed on violent
offenders, and Federal penalties are imposed for
crossing State lines to engage in domestic
violence. To strengthen the role of the States and
local jurisdictions as the primary governmental
units responsible for crime control and the
administration of justice, the Crime Act also
makes programs of assistance available to them.
The Act supports the development of community
policing, interagency responses to domestic
violence, drug courts, and incarceration of
violent offenders. These programs are distinctive
in promoting innovation in the approach to
controlling crime and preventing it.
 
The National Institute of Justice sponsors studies
that evaluate the effectiveness of these
innovative programs, and conducts related
research. The programs are administered within the
Department of Justice by the Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services, the Corrections
Program Office, the Violence Against Women Grants
Office, and the Drug Courts Program Office. Each
of them allocated funds to support NIJ research in
their respective areas: community policing,
sentencing and corrections (including boot camps),
violence against women, and drug courts.[1]
 
Listed here are the specific research projects
sponsored by NIJ in 1996 in these program areas
and in other, related areas of the Crime Act.[2] The
number is that of the grant or contract; followed
by the project title; name of the institution,
agency, or corporation that received the award;
name of the principal investigator or contractor;
and the award amount.[3]

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[1]Grants to evaluate drug courts will be
made in fiscal year 1997.
 
[2]The first Crime Act research grants were made by
NIJ in 1995. A list of these awards is appended to
the Institute's 1995 annual report to Congress,
Searching for Answers: Criminal Justice Research,
Development and Evaluation (Washington, D.C.: U.
S. Department of Justice, National Institute of
Justice), July 1996. (NCJ order #162042) 

[3]A separate document listing the science and
technology projects sponsored by NIJ in 1996 under
the Crime Act, NIJ Science and Technology Awards
Under the Crime Act, Fiscal Year 1996, has been
published in the NIJ Research in Brief series. A
list of all other NIJ grants and contracts awarded
in 1996, NIJ Awards in Fiscal Year 1996, is also
available.

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Community Policing

95-IJ-CX-0069
National Evaluation of the Youth Firearm Violence
Initiative
Abt Associates Inc.
Terence Dunworth
$300,000
This evaluation of the Youth Firearm Violence
Initiative will describe the strategies being
implemented by various sites, assess what factors
contribute to the program's success or failure,
and identify which strategies can be transferred
to other jurisdictions.

96-IJ-CX-0067
Orienting Overview on Broken Windows, Disorder,
and Decline
Temple University
Ralph B. Taylor, NIJ Fellow
$168,000
This award supports secondary analyses of various
data sets to determine the extent to which
specific types of social and environmental
disorder--apart from community demographics,
crime, and residents' individual characteristics--
affect fear and neighborhood commitment.

96-IJ-CX-0082
Police Response to Emotionally Disturbed Persons:
Analyzing New Models of Police Interactions With
the Mental Health System
Policy Research Associates
Henry J. Steadman
$211,000
This case study analysis seeks to determine best
practices used by police in response to
emotionally disturbed persons by defining the
strengths and weaknesses of three individual
approaches. 

96-IJ-CX-0074
Reducing Disorder, Fear, and Crime in Public
Housing: An Evaluation of an Advanced Stage Drug
Crime Elimination Program
Washington State University
Quint Thurman
$172,000
Reclaiming Our Area Residents (ROAR) is an ongoing
public housing drug elimination program sponsored
by the Spokane (Washington) Housing Authority and
the Spokane Police Department. This study examines
the program's impact on community revitalization. 

95-IJ-CX-0073
Supplemental Activities for the Process Evaluation
of Title I of the 1994 Crime Act
Urban Institute
Jeffrey Roth
$360,000
This award supports an evaluation of policing
activities that identifies promising innovations
for preventing or correcting common problems in
law enforcement agencies' transitions to community
policing.

Changing Roles of Police

96-IJ-CX-0045
Community Policing Strategies: First National
Survey Update
Macro International, Inc.
Billy Jones
$286,000
This award will update and enhance the information
about community policing collected in a 1993
Police Foundation survey to help identify the
strategic and tactical changes occurring in
policing and to describe the factors that underlie
the changes.

96-IJ-CX-0081
Investigative Function in the Community Policing
Context
Police Executive Research Forum
Mary Ann Wycoff
$406,000
The study will describe existing models for
integrating investigations into community
policing. A survey of departments will examine,
among other issues, detectives' roles in community
policing. Site visits will be made to promising
departments and recommendations made for effective
integration practices.

Evaluation and Problemsolving

94-IJ-CX-0046
Evaluation of Chicago's Citywide Community
Policing Program
Northwestern University
Wesley G. Skogan
$996,000
This project is continuing a long-term evaluation
of Chicago's community policing program by
monitoring implementation of the program, trends
in program awareness and citizen involvement,
public perceptions of the police, and the impact
on the extent of crime and disorder problems.

96-IJ-CX-0046
Evaluation of the Effects of Fatigue on Police
Patrol Officers and Their Relations With the
Community
Police Executive Research Forum
Dennis Jay Kenney
$285,000
This project will research the ways in which
police officers' hours of work affect job
performance. It will also assess related
management and administrative strategies and
procedures.

94-IJ-CX-0056
Firearms and Violence: Juveniles, Illicit Markets,
and Fear
Presidents and Fellows of Harvard
Susan Michaelson
$190,000
This supplemental award will continue to test the
applicability of preventing juvenile gun violence
in Boston, Massachusetts, through problemsolving
policing focused on disrupting the illicit market
in firearms and reducing juveniles' fear. An
evaluation of the program's impact on firearms
violence among juveniles will be conducted.

96-IJ-CX-0060
Impact of Community Policing Training and
Implementation on Police Personnel
Arizona State University
Robin Haarr
$94,000
This project will evaluate the extent to which the
Phoenix Regional Police Training Academy's program
produces desired changes in officers' attitudes,
perceptions, beliefs, and behaviors related to
community policing philosophies and strategies,
problemsolving techniques, and multicultural
awareness.

Locally Initiated Research Partnerships

96-IJ-CX-0085
Ada County Sheriff's Office and Boise State
University
Boise State University
John Crank
$91,000
Through the partnership created by this award,
researchers will survey citizens to better
understand their needs and thereby enhance the
community's capacity to access information about
the Sheriff's Department.

96-IJ-CX-0087
Alachua County Sheriff's Office Research
Partnership With the University of Florida
Alachua County Sheriff's Office
Louise Grimm
$36,000
Researchers, working in partnership with the
Alachua County Sheriff's Office, will conduct a
detailed review of the research needs of the
sheriff's office, improve research and
communication skills, and determine if the
communication program has enhanced the target
neighborhood residents' attitudes toward law
enforcement.

95-IJ-CX-0084
Assessing Community Police Performance in
Philadelphia
Temple University
Jack R. Greene
$184,000
This collaboration between Temple University and
the Philadelphia Police Department seeks to better
understand community-oriented policing by more
precisely measuring routine patrol activities,
problemsolving capabilities, and the impact of
policing philosophy on both the police and the
community.

96-IJ-CX-0068
Creating a Culture of Community Policing: An
Albuquerque Police Department-University of New
Mexico Research Partnership
University of New Mexico
Lydia Salas
$151,000
This project will study the fundamental dynamics
involved in implementing community policing
throughout all departments of the Albuquerque
Police Department.

95-IJ-CX-0083
Cross-Site Research on Locally Initiated
Collaborations
Institute for Law and Justice, Inc.
J. Thomas McEwen
$296,000
This ongoing evaluation of locally initiated
research partnerships includes newly funded
collaborations. The purpose is to determine how
local police-researcher partnerships are formed,
how they operate, what factors lead to successful
collaborations, and what research contributions
can be made.

95-IJ-CX-0047
Demonstrating a Cost-Effective Approach for
Locally Initiated Police Research in Small- 
and Medium-Size Cities
LINC
Marcia R. Chaiken
$199,000
This award supports partnerships involving four
police departments (Eureka and Redding,
California; Pocatello, Idaho; and Rapid City,
South Dakota) and police researchers from the
Institute for Law and Justice, the Joint Centers
for Justice Studies, and the Police Executive
Research Forum. The partnerships develop, test,
and evaluate processes for linking researchers and
police departments.

96-IJ-CX-0098
Domestic Violence Intervention Project
East Bay Community Foundation
Maria Theresa Viramontes
$100,000
This research partnership among the East Bay
Public Safety Corridor Partnership, the National
Council on Crime and Delinquency, and the City of
Berkeley Police Department will develop and test
screening tools to aid police in the
decisionmaking process in domestic violence
situations in an effort to integrate the criminal
justice and rehabilitative/treatment models into a
single comprehensive approach to responding to
domestic violence.

96-IJ-CX-0088
Establishing a Research Partnership: Forest Park,
Ohio, Police Division and the University of
Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
Lawrence Travis
$46,000
This partnership will work to increase the
capacity of the Forest Park Police Division to
conduct and utilize research and improve
sensitivity among university faculty and students
to the operational problems of police agencies.

96-IJ-CX-0072
Fast Track Program Study: Tracking Nonviolent
Juvenile Criminal Offenders
Bay City Police Department
Penny Phelps
$33,000
This collaborative research between police
officers and university professors will evaluate
Fast Track, a youth offender program designed to
prevent repeat offenders from recycling through
the criminal justice system.

95-IJ-CX-0085
Forging a Florida Law Enforcement Research
Coalition
Florida State University
Anthony Pate
$137,000
This award supports the Florida Law Enforcement
Research Coalition, a coalition of law enforcement
officials and planners and university faculty
working to improve community policing efforts to
reduce crime and improve the quality of life.

95-IJ-CX-0093
Forming a Research Partnership: Lansing Police
Department and Michigan State University
City of Lansing
Timothy S. Bynum
$118,000
This partnership between the Lansing (Michigan)
Police Department and Michigan State University
continues evaluation activities and enhanced
information dissemination that will be integrated
into the department's community policing program.

96-IJ-CX-0063
Impact of Charleston, West Virginia, Community
Oriented Policing
Marshall University Research Corporation
Girmay Berhie
$111,000
This partnership will study the impact of
community policing in Charleston, West Virginia,
on business owners, low-income housing residents,
other city residents, and police personnel.

96-IJ-CX-0092
Indianapolis Management Accountability Program: A
Collaboration Between the Indianapolis Police
Department and Indiana University
Indiana University, Bloomington
Alexander Weiss
$202,000
Through this award, a team of university
researchers and police officials will evaluate the
Indianapolis Police Department's management
accountability program and enhance the
Department's crime analysis capacity.

95-IJ-CX-0088
Locally Initiated Research on Community Policing
Jefferson County, West Virginia, Coalition on
Substance Abuse (FOCUS)
Diane C. McCoy
$61,000
This award continues research into the behaviors
and perceptions of uniformed and civilian State 
law enforcement officials toward
community-oriented policing. The research includes
an examination of the impact of technological
enhancements on the operations and management of
small rural police forces.

95-IJ-CX-0076
Locally Initiated Research: Developing and
Expanding Problemsolving Partnerships in 
Jersey City
Jersey City Police Department
Frank Gajewski
$129,000
This partnership between the Jersey City Police
Department and the Center for Crime Prevention
Studies at Rutgers University addresses community
policing issues in 32 neighborhood improvement
districts. 

96-IJ-CX-0070
Locally Initiated Research Partnership:
Framingham, Massachusetts, Police Department and
Social Science Research and Evaluation, Inc.
Social Science Research and Evaluation, Inc.
Robert Apsler
$98,000
This award establishes a partnership between a
police department and a research organization to
assess an innovative program in which victims who
have taken out restraining orders receive cellular
phones to contact police in an emergency. 

96-IJ-CX-0093
Meeting the Needs of Racine Citizens: Evaluation
of a Community Policing Program
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Helen Rosenberg
$82,000
Residents, business owners, politicians,
educators, social service personnel, and police
are partners in this systematic study of the
impact of community policing in Racine, Wisconsin.


96-IJ-CX-0080
Partnership Against Crime: University of Maryland
and Prince George's County Police Department
University of Maryland, College Park
Lawrence W. Sherman
$78,000
This partnership between the University of
Maryland and the Prince George's County Police
Department is modeled after the New York City
Police Department's COMSTAT program. The project's
goal is to promote intensive review of local crime
patterns by top police commanders and establish
clear accountability for response to those
patterns.

96-IJ-CX-0044
Police-Academic Partnership for Evaluation and
Research
University of Virginia
Janet Warren
$129,000
This award supports an interactive, shared
information system to conduct research on
workplace violence in three police jurisdictions. 

96-IJ-CX-0086
Restructuring the Role of Police Sergeants by
Identifying the Character Traits Associated With
Success
City of Baltimore
Joseph R. Bolesta
$195,000
This project will identify and categorize the
characteristics of sergeants who have demonstrated
excellence in performance and in the fulfillment
of their roles as leaders in the agency and the
community. 

95-IJ-CX-0097
Targeting Cycles of Domestic Violence II: Testing
of Lethality Scale to Predict Recidivism and
Escalating Violence (Grant Continuation)
City of Seattle
Dan Fleissner
$120,000
This award supports a partnership between
researchers from the University of Washington and
the Seattle Police Department to assess and
improve handling of domestic violence cases.

Measuring the Impact of Police

96-IJ-CX-0047
Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Clearance of
Homicides
Justice Research and Statistics Association
Joan C. Weiss
$270,000
This multisite study analyzes factors affecting
the clearance of homicides in police departments
in several major cities to offer guidance on the
extent to which clearance rates are useful in
measuring police performance.

96-IJ-CX-0042
Reducing Repeat Victimization of Residential
Burglary
Police Executive Research Forum
John Stedman
$443,000
Researchers will work with police to analyze
burglary patterns and develop appropriate
interventions using a problemsolving model and
situational crime prevention techniques.

Police and the Community

96-IJ-CX-0064
Assessing a Model of Police Community
Collaboration
Vera Institute of Justice, Inc.
Douglas Young
$74,000
This evaluation explores police relationships with
clients in a substance abuse treatment program to
enrich under-standing about the design and
implementation of crime control strategies. 

96-IJ-CX-0073
Awareness and Perceptions of Community Policing in
Immigrant Communities
Victim Services, Inc.
Rob Davis
$244,000
This project will investigate the extent to which
awareness of community policing is penetrating
immigrant communities and the perceptions of
immigrants toward law enforcement.

96-IJ-CX-0069
Community Component of Community Policing in Los
Angeles
University of Southern California
Cheryl Maxson
$371,000
This project will develop measurement tools to
assess community attitudes and perceptions of
police activities and police/community
relationships and will examine individual and
community factors in citizens' reactions to
community policing. Findings from mail and
telephone surveys will be compared to help
decisionmakers select appropriate measurement
tools and better understand the results of
assessment efforts in different locations across
the country.

96-IJ-CX-0071
Determinants of Citizen and Police Involvement in
Community Policing
City of Boston
Luis Garcia
$172,000
This research will measure community attitudes
toward and involvement in community policing in
Boston, Massachusetts, and identify individual and
community factors associated with citizen
participation in community policing.

96-IJ-CX-0078
Identifying Strategies To Market the Police in 
the News
Indiana University, Bloomington
Steven Chermak and Alex Weiss
$133,000
This project examines the strategies police
departments use to market their community policing
efforts and their success rate and explores the
role of the news media in publicizing community
policing.

95-IJ-CX-0064
Police and the Community: National League of
Cities Search for Excellence in Community Policing
National League of Cities Institute
William B. Whiteside
$249,000
This project will identify promising programs,
activities, and best practices that show
collaborative problemsolving between law
enforcement and the community and that demonstrate
community awareness and perceptions of community
policing. 

96-IJ-CX-0075
Street-Level Policing in Cincinnati: The Content
of Community and Traditional Policing and the
Perceptions of Policing Audiences
University of Cincinnati
James Frank
$235,000
This study examines the workload of neighborhood
and patrol officers, police-citizen interactions
involving both types of officers, attitudes of
officers toward community policing, the perceived
impact of this neighborhood-level strategy on
officer workload, and citizen knowledge of police
efforts over a 12-month period.

Police Integrity

96-IJ-CX-A056
Development of Guidelines for Using Psychological
Test Results To Help Combat Corruption in Law
Enforcement Organization
Defense Personnel Security Research Center
Howard Timm
$50,000
This project will develop a comprehensive manual
on the findings and recommendations from the first
major national study on the psychological
dimensions of police corruption.

96-IJ-CX-0053
Identifying Correlates of Police Deviance: An
Empirical Study of Police Corruption and Brutality
in New York (1975-1996)
Temple University
Jack R. Greene
$413,000
This award supports a longitudinal study of New
York City police officers who resigned or were
dismissed because of corruption or brutality from
1975 through 1996. The study describes these
officers in terms of individual, organizational,
and community characteristics and identifies the
managerial, operational, and scholarly
implications.

96-IJ-CX-0077
Perceptions of Police Accountability in Citizen
Complaints
Sam Houston State University
Kenneth Adams
$300,000
This research examines citizen complaints in
detail, including the process citizens use in
deciding to make a complaint, the experiences of
citizens with the process, areas of satisfaction
and dissatisfaction with the process, and findings
across jurisdictions.

Law Enforcement Family Support Program

96-FS-VX-0001
Law Enforcement Family Support
Police Research Education Project
Robert Scully
$146,000
This project will develop, implement, and evaluate
innovative and comprehensive stress reduction
educational training programs for officers'
perceived work and family needs in Dallas, Texas;
Erie County, New York; and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

96-FS-VX-0005
Law Enforcement Family Support Demonstration
Project
Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 1
Kevin McCarthy
$180,000
This project is expanding the existing Critical
Incident Stress Debriefing program to cover the
entire State of Louisiana and to include stress
reduction services for officers experiencing all
types of employment-related stress.

96-FS-VX-0006
Law Enforcement Family Support Program
Iowa State University
Eugene Deisinger
$170,000
This award will develop and evaluate a
comprehensive stress management program model for
university, municipal, and county law enforcement
officers and their families in rural areas.

96-FS-VX-0008
Law Enforcement Family Support Program
Vermont Department of Public Safety
Michael Sorenson
$30,000
This program provides stress management services
to police officers and their families as needed
throughout the State of Vermont.

96-FS-VX-0002
Law Enforcement Family Support: Training Program
for Reduction of Stress Among Law Enforcement
Officers and Their Families
New York Division of Criminal Justice Services
Stephen M. Bernardi
$25,000
This program trains police officers and their
families throughout the State of New York in
stress management techniques.

96-FS-VX-0004
Police Chaplaincy: An Innovative Law Enforcement
Stress Reduction Delivery System
Arkansas State Police
Jim Tudor
$59,000
This statewide law enforcement chaplaincy program
provides routine and emergency stress management
services, including alcohol and/or dependency
counseling, postshooting counseling, officer
trauma counseling, death notifications, and
specialized education for police recruits and
their families.

96-IJ-CX-0056
Stress Reduction Among Law Enforcement Officers
and Families Exploratory Study
City of Buffalo
R. Gil Kerlikowski
$97,000
This study will identify gender- and
ethnic-specific stressors facing law enforcement
officers and will develop strategies that could be
implemented by law enforcement organizations to
address such stressors.

96-FS-VX-0007
Stress Reduction Program for New York City 
Police Officers
New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association
Membership Assistance Program
William Genet
$130,000
This project will develop a handbook for peer
support officers, conduct awareness training to
expand the network of mental health clinicians who
are familiar with the needs and problems of police
officers and their families, conduct training for
l,500 officers and family members, and organize
support groups. 

96-FS-VX-0003
Stress Training for Officers and Partners
Miami Police Department
Gerald Darling
$47,000
This project provides stress management training,
which addresses both personal and work-related
problems, to 200 new officers and their families.

Sentencing and Corrections

96-CE-VX-0012
Collaborative Development of Individual Discharge
Planning for Incarcerated Women
University of Rhode Island
Kathryn Quina
$140,000
This project will determine the extent to which an
intensive discharge planning process improves
psychosocial functioning and reduces the risk of
recidivism for incarcerated women.

96-CE-VX-K001
Crime and Justice Thematic Volume on Prisons
Castine Research Corporation
Michael Tonry
$197,000
This award supports the development of essays to
be collected in a thematic volume on prison issues
for the Crime and Justice series.

96-CE-VX-0008
Effect of Correctional Resources on the Sentencing
of Male and Female Defendants in Minnesota
Florida International University
Lisa Stolzenberg
$37,000
This study examines gender-specific trends in
sentencing in Minnesota and whether judicial
decisionmaking and sentence severity are
influenced by the differences in prison crowding
in men's and women's prisons.

96-CE-VX-0005
Evaluation of the Development and Implementation
of Virginia's Sentencing Law
National Center for State Courts
Brian Ostrom
$114,000
This project will provide the first systematic
examination of the implementation of Virginia's
new no-parole, truth-in-sentencing laws
implemented in 1995. 

96-CE-VX-0010
Evaluation of Florida's Residential Drug Treatment
and Prison Diversion Program
Richard L. Linster
$112,000
As Florida's prison admissions have decreased,
commitments to residential drug treatment programs
have grown. This project will assess the impact of
these programs in terms of recidivism and costs
and benefits.

96-CE-VX-0013
Evaluation of North Carolina's Structured
Sentencing Law
Research Triangle Institute
James Collins
$235,000
This project examines the impact of North
Carolina's structured sentencing law and the
implications for sentencing legislation,
guidelines, structures to support sentencing
reform, resource needs, and correctional program
development.

96-CE-VX-0007
Forging a Florida Correctional Research 
Coalition
Florida State University
Gordon Waldo
$174,000
This award supports the creation of the Florida
Correctional Research Coalition (FCRC), a
partnership between the School of Criminology and
Criminal Justice at Florida State University and
the Florida Department of Corrections.

96-CE-VX-0017
HIDTA Seamless System for Drug-Involved Offenders:
A Randomized Multicenter Evaluation
University of Maryland, College Park
Faye S. Taxman
$200,000
This project evaluates the efforts of eight
Maryland counties to increase prison space for
violent offenders by integrating drug treatment
and surveillance for nonviolent felons.

96-CE-VX-0011
Impact of Truth-in-Sentencing Reform in
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Committee on Criminal Justice
Francis J. Carney
$50,000
This project examines the impact of sentencing
guideline reforms on judicial decisionmaking and
on criminal justice resources.

96-CE-VX-0001
Local Impact of Violent Offender and
Truth-in-Sentencing Legislation: How Probation 
and Community Corrections Respond
RAND Corporation
Peter Greenwood
$199,000
This project assesses the impact of violent
offender and truth-in-sentencing legislation in
six selected counties and examines major
sentencing structures, the role of counties in
drafting and passing violent offender and
truth-in-sentencing legislation, the changes in
local jail and probation policies and practices,
and the costs and benefits of this type of reform.


96-CE-VX-0018
Managing Felons in Los Angeles County
RAND Corporation
Joan Petersilia
$188,000
This project explores the impact of State
sentencing initiatives on county corrections by
examining how felons are sanctioned and managed in
Los Angeles County and the consequences of such
sanctions in terms of public safety and costs.

96-CE-VX-0016
Multisite Evaluation of Second Generation
Sentencing Commissions
Abt Associates Inc.
William Rhodes
$300,000
This award supports a study of four sentencing
commissions to determine the various effects of
sentencing guidelines. Specific areas to be
studied include dispositional disparity,
durational disparity, variations in effects among
States, and changes in the size and composition of
prison populations.

96-CE-VX-0004
Offender Outcomes Under North Carolina Criminal
Justice Partnership Act
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
Amy Craddock
$225,000
This study assesses offender outcomes under a new
North Carolina structured sentencing system that
reserves jail and prison space for violent and
repeat offenders and directs most others to
community-based sanctions. 

96-CE-VX-0009
Study of Legislation and Impact of Two-Strikes
Legislation
National Council on Crime and Delinquency
James F. Austin
$97,000
This project builds on a study of the impact of
California and Washington State's two- and
three-strikes laws to include an analysis of
Georgia's recently enacted two-strikes law. 

96-CE-VX-0015
The Unintended Impacts of Sentencing Reforms and
Incarceration on Family Structure
University of Minnesota
Samuel Myers
$150,000
This project will assess the impact of
incarceration and sentencing reforms on family
structure and stability by investigating the same
empirical issue using three data sets and applying
a variety of statistical methods.

96-CE-VX-0006
Violent Offender Incarceration and
Truth-in-Sentencing: National Evaluation of
Implementation Experiences and Impact on
Corrections
RAND Corporation
Susan Turner
$600,000
This evaluation will track and document over time
significant changes in a number of key process and
outcome variables for the 50 States, including
legislative actions, prosecution and defense
strategies, sentencing patterns, criminal justice
system costs, and crime rates. RAND will also
conduct case studies of recent sentencing and
correctional reforms in six States.

96-CE-VX-0003
The Wisconsin Idea: Evaluation Partnership on
Sentencing and Corrections
Wisconsin Department of Corrections
Michael E. Smith
$102,000
This study examines sentences imposed in
archetypal cases, the implementation of those
sentences, and the philosophy behind and
techniques employed by correctional programs. 

Boot Camps

96-SC-VX-0005
Boot Camps and Their Impact on Confinement
Populations
Abt Associates Inc.
Dale G. Parent
$275,000
This study assesses the extent to which boot camps
can achieve the goal of accelerating the release
of nonviolent offenders, thereby generating bed
space for the confinement of more violent
offenders. Information on all 44 federally funded
boot camps will be collected and 4 will be given
intensive analysis.

96-SC-LX-0001
Correctional Boot Camps for Juveniles: A 
Proposal for a Multisite Study
University of Maryland, College Park
Doris MacKenzie
$398,000
This study examines the conditions of confinement
at 27 juvenile boot camps and measures and
compares participant outcomes, such as the
juveniles' performance during community
supervision. 

96-SC-VX-0003
Evaluation of Los Angeles County Juvenile Drug
Treatment Boot Camp
California State University, San Marcos
Sheldon Zhang
$179,000
This study evaluates the Los Angeles County Drug
Treatment Boot Camp Program to assess postprogram
drug use, determine whether postrelease criminal
behavior is reduced, and identify the
characteristics of successful graduates.

96-SC-VX-0004
Evaluation of OJP FY95 Boot Camp Planning Grants
National Council on Crime and Delinquency
Sandra Tunis
$73,000
This national study is focused on the boot camp
planning grants awarded by the Office of Justice
Programs' Corrections Program Office in fiscal
year 1995 and examines barriers to achieving
planning and implementation goals and
characteristics that lead to successful planning
and implementation.

96-SC-LX-0002
National Multisite Impact Evaluation of Private
and Public Boot Camp Programs
National Council on Crime and Delinquency
James F. Austin
$268,000
This project will evaluate 10 boot camp programs,
including 3 adult offender programs run by State
departments of corrections, 3 adult offender
programs run by counties, and 4 juvenile offender
programs operated privately. The research will
focus on whether aftercare strategies are
effective in influencing outcomes.

Residential Substance Abuse Treatment

97-RT-VX-K004
Client Motivation in Therapeutic Community
Treatment for Offenders
University of Delaware
Steven S. Martin
$62,500
Using existing outcome data, researchers will
perform a 12-month outcome evaluation to determine
what characteristics, motivations, and personal
circumstances of drug abusing prisoners improve
the likelihood of treatment success.


97-RT-VX-K007
Evaluation of Florida Residential Substance Abuse
Treatment for State Prisoners Program
Florida State University
C. Aaron Neece
$50,000
This project will evaluate the implementation and
treatment effects of the Florida Residential
Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners
Program at three Florida Department of Corrections
facilities. Prisoners' social and psychological
functioning and symptom severity will be a primary
focus.

97-RT-VX-K003
Evaluation of the Forever Free Substance 
Abuse Program
University of California--Los Angeles
Michael Prendergast
$39,000
Forever Free is an intensive 6-month residential
treatment program for women inmates with substance
abuse problems, followed by community residential
treatment during parole supervision. Process and
impact evaluations of the program will be
conducted, focusing on program philosophy and
operations; linkages with community programs that
provide continuity of care following release to
parole; and client characteristics, especially
mothers' relationships with their children.

97-RT-VX-K008
Evaluation of the Maxey Substance Abuse Treatment
Program
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
William C. Birdsall
$49,000
This outcome evaluation of the Maxey Training
School in Michigan will examine organizational
factors, service delivery, staff, and
characteristics and progress of participants to
determine the program's impact on substance abuse
among youth involved in the juvenile justice
system.


97-RT-VX-K002
Evaluation of Residential Substance Abuse
Treatment for State Prison Inmates
University of New Mexico--Albuquerque
Gary LaFree
$50,000
This project will assess the effectiveness of the
We Are Recovering program, a therapeutic community
at the Southern New Mexico correctional facility,
in reducing recidivism and reincarceration.
Program structure, philosophy, and goals will be
examined, and the impact of a planned program
expansion and restructuring will be assessed.

97-RT-VX-K001
Evaluation of Residential Substance Abuse
Treatment for State Prisoners Program
University of Wisconsin--Madison
D. Paul Moberg
$49,000
This project will evaluate a residential substance
abuse treatment program, located in a minimum
security facility, for prisoners who have been
dually diagnosed with psychiatric disorders.
Program operation, participant characteristics,
and intermediate outcomes will be examined.

97-RT-VX-K006
National Evaluation of Residential Substance Abuse
Treatment Programs 
National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.
Douglas Lipton
$500,000
This national evaluation of the Residential
Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners
Program will examine offender characteristics,
treatment staff, types of treatments used, content
and duration of treatment sessions, program
length, and concordance with clinical standards.
Technical assistance to the States will be
provided, and criteria will be developed for
selecting three model programs for a long-term
outcome evaluation.

97-RT-VX-K005
The Therapeutic Milieu in Treatment of Offenders:
A Process and Outcome Evaluation in Maryland
University of Maryland
Faye Taxman
$50,000
This project will evaluate Maryland's
comprehensive strategy for providing treatment
services to offenders in prison and in the
community. First-year program operations and the
impact of the program on recidivism and on
subsequent drug use will be the focus.

Violence Against Women

96-WT-NX-0005
Alcohol Problems and Violence Against Women
University of Northern Iowa
William R. Downs
$92,000
This study will describe the relationship between
alcohol abuse and domestic violence among two
at-risk populations--women in alcohol treatment
programs and women receiving services as victims
of domestic violence.

96-WT-NX-0002
Data Collection and Communication: An
Implementation Guide
National Center for State Courts
Susan Keilitz
$145,000
This study expands the national evaluation of the
Office of Justice Programs' STOP (Services,
Training, Officers, Prosecutors) grants to
thoroughly analyze their experiences with data
collection and communication systems to enable
future development, implementation, and
standardization of data collection and
communication systems.

96-IJ-CX-0057
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Data Systems
in States
Justice Research and Statistics Association
Stan Orchowsky
$138,000
This award continues and expands upon a study of
the data bases being used by States to collect
information on domestic violence and sexual
assault. 

96-WT-NX-0008
Efficacy of Court-Mandated Counseling for Domestic
Violence Offenders: A Broward County Experiment
Florida Atlantic University
Lynette Feder
$135,000
This research assesses the effectiveness of a
26-week counseling intervention for batterers
based on the Duluth, Minnesota, model. Data from
probation reports, monthly treatment attendance
and participation reports, police contacts, and
offender and victim reports of violence both prior
to and after treatment is analyzed.

95-WT-NX-0004
Evaluation of a Coordinated Community Response to
Domestic Violence (Supplement)
Applied Research Associates
Stan Orchowsky
$13,000 (Original grant was $114,412)
This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the
Alexandria (Virginia) Domestic Violence
Intervention Project, which combines a mandatory
arrest policy with a no-drop prosecution strategy,
court-mandated treatment for batterers, and
services for battered women, such as emergency
shelter, counseling, and court advocacy. 
 
96-WT-NX-0004
Factors Related to Domestic Violence Court
Disposition in a Large Urban Area: The Role of
Victim-Witness Reluctance
University of Cincinnati
Joanne Belknap
$119,000
The purpose of this study is to determine which
factors influence judicial and prosecutorial
decisionmaking in domestic violence cases and
which factors influence victim-witness reluctance
in bringing batterers to successful adjudication. 

96-WT-NX-0006
Impact Evaluation of STOP Grant Programs for
Reducing Violence Against Women Among Indian
Tribes
University of Arizona
Eileen M. Luna
$145,000
This project evaluates the impact of the programs
for women among Indian tribes supported by the
Office of Justice Programs' STOP (Services,
Training, Officers, Prosecutors) Violence Against
Women grants. The goal of the programs is to
expand understanding of the cultural and legal
context of reducing violence against women among
Indian tribes. 

96-WT-NX-0007
Impact Evaluation of STOP Grants Law Enforcement
and Prosecution
Institute for Law and Justice, Inc.
J. Thomas McEwen
$325,000
This project involves an impact evaluation at 8 to
10 sites under the Law Enforcement and Prosecution
purpose area of the Office of Justice Programs'
STOP (Services, Training, Officers, Prosecutors)
formula grants. The evaluation will address a
cross-section of various local activities,
including training for law enforcement officers
and prosecutors, police and prosecution policies,
and programs that address stalking.

96-WT-NX-0003
Impact Evaluation of Victim Services Programs:
STOP Grants Funded by the Violence Against Women
Act
American Bar Association
Barbara Smith
$200,000
This project will evaluate the first 2 years of
Office of Justice Programs' STOP (Services,
Training, Officers, Prosecutors) Violence Against
Women grants awarded to victim services programs
for work in the areas of sexual assault, domestic
violence, and stalking.

95-WT-NX-0005
National Evaluation of the Violence Against Women
Act Grants (Supplement)
Urban Institute
Martha Burt
$350,000
This project continues documentation of the range
of programs funded by the Law Enforcement and
Prosecution Grants under the Violence Against
Women Act, including assessment of grantee
outcomes, examination of their planning and
implementation efforts, and development of a
strategy for documenting long-term impacts.

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The National Institute of Justice is a component
of the Office of Justice Programs, which also
includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Bureau
of Justice Statistics, Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for
Victims of Crime.

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