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The following bullets link to efforts undertaken to develop or evaluate technologies to fight crime, or on research related to technology use in the criminal justice system. 

  • Vanguard Robot Assessment: The law enforcement community needs a low-cost robot that can reduce or eliminate the time of danger for a bomb technician who must inspect, x-ray, and disrupt an explosive device. This document discusses the Vanguard robot performance compared to other bomb-disposal robots. The Vanguard has a large percentage of the features required by law enforcement. Criteria for evaluation include cost and operating range.

  • Technology Programs of the National Institute of Justice: 

    • NIJ sponsors technology research, development, assessment, and implementation to improve public safety. Visit the sites below to learn more about specific programs or the main NIJ technology programs page to learn about NIJ's technology program as a whole. 

  • Aviation Security Biometrics Working Group: NIJ participated in this FAA established multi-agency group to accelerate the study of the integration of biometrics into airport security systems. The site contains working group documents, a list participants, and FAA testimony relating to biometrics. 

  • Office of Law Enforcement Standards Research Programs:
    • Detection, Inspection, and Enforcement Technologies Research--OLES manages programs, directs research and development efforts, and develops performance standards, guidelines and reports for equipment for detection, inspection, and enforcement in support of the goals and priorities of both and the outside agency sponsors.
    • Chemical Systems and Material Research--OLES manages programs and directs research and development efforts in the areas of polymers, chemical systems and materials, including, but not limited to, protective clothing and equipment, detection drugs of abuse, less-than-lethal technologies, and weapons of mass destruction. Also, OLES develops quality assurance programs and performance standards, guidelines, and reports in support of the goals and priorities of both NIST and the outside agency sponsors.
    • Weapons and Protective Systems Standards Development--OLES conducts and monitors programs that are concerned with establishing performance standards for weapons and protective equipment used by law enforcement and corrections personnel.
    • Public Safety Communication Standards Development--OLES leads the development of wireless telecommunications and information technology standards, profiles, and guidelines for interoperability, and information sharing, among criminal justice and public safety agencies at all levels. While standards are being developed, other interim interoperability solutions will be investigated.
    • Forensic Science Research--Heavy case loads permit forensic scientists little time to devote to research. In an effort to bridge this gap, OLES uses the results of a nationally conducted survey regarding the needs of forensic laboratories to select and establish research projects. 

  • Testing the Capabilities of Facial Recognition Systems: Face Recognition Vendor Tests (FRVT) provide independent government evaluations of commercially available and mature prototype face recognition systems. These evaluations are designed to provide government and law enforcement agencies with information to assist them in determining where and how facial recognition technology can best be deployed. In addition, FRVT results help identify future research directions for the face recognition community. The FRVT is co-sponsored by the Department of Defense Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and NIJ. 

  • Public Attitudes toward Uses of Criminal Information: (BJS) (July 2001) Presents the results of the first national survey of public towards use of criminal history information for a variety of purposes. Among a number of issues, the report discusses public attitudes on issues related to Internet usage, the availability of information on the Internet, and information sharing with the public sector.

  • NIJ Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety Program. Promotes research, evaluation, development, and dissemination of GIS (geographic information systems) technology and the spatial analysis of crime.
    • Crime Mapping Bibliography. A list of NIJ MAPS "Staff Favorite" publications to provide people with an overview of the various topic areas that comprise crime mapping. 

  • The NCJRS Acquisition List for Technology contains abstracts to recent acquisitions to one of the nation's largest resources for abstracts to criminal justice and law enforcement research. Prepared by the Online Research and Information Center, the library for OJP staff, the monthly acquisition lists will join the Abstract's Database which is searchable online. 

  • NIJ's Online Portfolio: NIJ's portfolio of all ongoing research, evaluation, and program development activities is now available online. The online portfolio contains close to 1,000 records, comprising NIJ's active awards, and is fully searchable by title, description, subject category, project location, and more.

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 150,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

  • National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center Publications. The National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center publishes and distributes a large collection of publications available at no cost by calling NLECTC at (800) 248-2742. See the Research and Statistics Catalog 2000: A comprehensive listing of all the publications available from the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center. 

  • The NIJ Research Review. NIJ's recent findings and other important criminal justice information. This new publication, which will be published every three months, summarizes NIJ's recently completed significant research projects, lists titles of other recent research projects, and presents upcoming events. 

  • National Institute of Justice Journal is published by NIJ, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, to announce the Institute's policy-relevant research results and initiatives

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