O F Jus Tice Pr O G Ra Ms Bja N National Institute of Justice Victim Costs and Consequences: a New Look Victim Costs and Consequences: a New Look Introduction

s Sponsor special projects and research and development programs that will improve and strengthen the criminal justice system and reduce or prevent crime. s Conduct national demonstration projects that employ innovative or promising approaches for improving criminal justice. s Develop new technologies to fight crime and improve criminal justice. s Evaluate the effectiveness of criminal justice programs and identify programs that promise to be successful if continued or repeated. s Recommend actions that can be taken by Federal, State, and local governments as well as private organizations to improve criminal justice. s Carry out research on criminal behavior. s Develop new methods of crime prevention and reduction of crime and delinquency. s Basic research on career criminals that led to the development of special police and prosecutor units to deal with repeat offenders. s Research that confirmed the link between drugs and crime. s The research and development program that resulted in the creation of police body armor that has meant the difference between life and death to hundreds of police officers. s Pioneering scientific advances such as the research and development of DNA analysis to positively identify suspects and eliminate the innocent from suspicion. s The evaluation of innovative justice programs to determine what works, including drug enforcement, community policing, community anti-drug initiatives, prosecution of complex drug cases, drug testing throughout the criminal justice system, and user accountability programs. s Creation of a corrections information-sharing system that enables State and local officials to exchange more efficient and cost-effective concepts and techniques for planning, financing, and constructing new prisons and jails. s Operation of the world's largest criminal justice information clearinghouse, a resource used by State and local officials across the Nation and by criminal justice agencies in foreign countries. the needs of the criminal justice field. The Institute actively solicits the views of criminal justice professionals to identify their most critical problems. Dedicated to the priorities of Federal, State, and local criminal justice agencies, research and development at the National Institute of Justice continues to search for answers to what works and why in the Nation's war on drugs and crime. Health and Human Services. Opinions or points of view expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the sponsoring agencies.

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