Crime
NIJ performs research in and evaluations of many specific types of crime — from more traditional crime, such as gun crime and child abuse, to emerging crime, such as identity theft and human trafficking.
Within the pages linked below, you will find information on perpetrators and victims, prevention and intervention programs and strategies, prevalence statistics and additional Web and print resources, from policy papers to research reports and the latest on NIJ’s research agendas.
Finding Information on Crime
Select a link below to learn more.
Child Abuse and Maltreatment
Child Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence
- How Prevalent is Co-occurrence?
- Evaluating a Program to Reduce Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence
See also...
Federal Prosecution of Child Sex Exploitation Offenders (from BJS)
Gun Violence
Who Has Illegal Guns and How Are They Acquired?
Who Is Most Affected by Gun Violence?
- Programs and Strategies
- Program - Operation Ceasefire
- Program - Directed Police Patrols
- Program - SACSI
- Program - Project Safe Neighborhoods
- Strategy - Problem Solving
- Strategy - Federal-Local Collaboration
- Strategy - Action Research
- Strategy - Identifying Hot Spots
- Strategy - Focused Deterrence
- Tactics
- Do Programs 'Displace' Crime?
See also...
Human Trafficking
Interagency Task Force and the Senior Policy Operating Group
Detecting, Investigating and Prosecuting Traffickers
Nature and Extent of Human Trafficking
Publications on Human Trafficking
Victim Assistance Programs (from OVC)
Characteristics of Suspected Human Trafficking Incidents, 2007-08 (from BJS)
Federal Prosecution of Human Trafficking, 2001-2005 (from BJS)
Intimate Partner (Domestic) Violence
Economic Distress and Intimate Partner Violence
How Widespread Is Intimate Partner Violence?
Measuring Intimate Partner Violence
Practical Implications of Research for Officer, Prosecutors and Judges
Transnational Organized Crime
Stalking
Arrests and Prosecution of Stalkers
Policy and Legislation on Stalking
Publications
Elder Abuse
Hate Crime
Identity Theft (NIJ ePub)
Extent and Patterns of Identity Theft
Recording and Reporting Identity Theft
Law Enforcement Issues and Response
Rape and Sexual Violence
Terrorism
NIJ's Role in Terrorism Research
Terrorism Databases for Analysis
Improving the Criminal Justice Response
Assessing Potential High-risk Targets
Terrorist Links to Other Crimes
Terrorism's Organization, Structure, and Culture
See also...
Violence Against Women
Publications on Violence Against Women
- Teen Dating Violence
- Addressing Predisposition Revictimization in Cases of Violence Against Women
- Safety and Accountability Audits: Future Initiatives
- Addressing Violence in Criminal Justice Practice
- Violence Theory
- Batterer Intervention
- Violence Against Women Among Racial, Ethnic and Cultural Minorities
- Evaluating the Impact of Programs Under the Violence Against Women Act
- Gender Symmetry
- Sexual Violence Research Workshop
Statistics on Violence Against Women (from BJS)
U.S. DOJ Office on Violence Against Women