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NamUs Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Report
Date Published
January 2024
Publication Type
Program/Project Description, Report (Annual/Periodic)
Agencies
NIJ
Highlighting Significant NIJ Forensic Science Investments: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Site Visit
Date Published
February 2024
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Highlighting Significant NIJ Forensic Science Investments: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Site Visit
NamUs Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Report
NCJ Number
307566
Date Published
January 2024
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Link
Cold Cases and Serial Killers (Part 1)
September 2023
Series
Justice Today Podcast
In April 2018, the Golden State Killer, Joseph DeAngelo was arrested. NIJ support helped lead to his arrest, and in the aftermath of the arrest, NIJ Social Science Analyst Eric Martin was among those tasked with finding other cases NIJ helped law enforcement solve. Eric joins the show to talk about some of those cases, and answer some broader questions about serial killers: What is a serial killer? Are they on the rise? How do we know how many serial killers are currently active?
Tribal Crime, Justice, and Safety (Part 2)
July 2022
Series
Justice Today Podcast
Stacy Lee Reynolds and Christine (Tina) Crossland continue their discussion of tribal crime, justice, and safety, including how Native American persons experience crime victimization at higher rates than non-Native people and the jurisdictional complexities in responding to tribal crime, justice, and safety. Read the transcript.
Listen to the first half of Stacy and Tina’s discussion.
Strengthening the Medical Examiner–Coroner System Through NIJ-funded Programs: 2018 Medicolegal Death Investigation Stakeholders’ Meeting
How Prevalent is Violence in Missing and Unidentified Persons Cases?
Date Published
February 2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ
How Prevalent is Violence in Missing and Unidentified Persons Cases?
Justice Department Fights for the Missing
Since 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice has helped to lead the search for tens of thousands of missing Americans. Created by the Department’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, known as NamUs, catalogs photos, fingerprints, dental records and other forensic evidence in an effort to find the missing, identify human remains and close cases that, in many...
Strengthening Sovereign Responses to Sex Trafficking in Indian Country Conference
Event Dates
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Location
El Conquistador Tucson
Tucson, AZ
Reporting and Investigating Missing Persons: A Background Paper On How To Frame The Issue
Date Published
August 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Operation Lady Justice: Comparison of the NamUs and NCIC Databases Fact Sheet
Operation Lady Justice: Comparison of the NamUs and NCIC Databases Fact Sheet
Date Published
July 2020
Publication Type
Technical Assistance, Report (Technical Assistance), Program/Project Description, Instructional Material (Programmed), Factsheet
Agencies
OJP
Serial Killer Connections Through Cold Cases
Date Published
June 2020
Agencies
NIJ
Video: Cold Case Investigation Units and Advances in Investigative Techniques
NCJ Number
254603
Date Published
March 2020
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Link
Video: Cold Case Investigation Units and Advances in Investigative Techniques
Date Published
March 2020
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Program/Project Description, Instructional Material (Programmed)
Agencies
NIJ
Justice Department Awards $145 Million to Advance Forensic Science
The funding enables those in law enforcement and criminal justice to solve more crimes, both old and new, based on physical evidence.
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) / Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation Interagency Working Group (MDI-IWG) Resource Page
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established this Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) Interagency working group (MDI-IWG) to coordinate Federal initiatives to strengthen the MDI system and support death investigation services practiced by medical examiner and coroner offices (ME/Cs) across the United States. The MDI-IWG...
Finding the Missing in Indian Country
It seems prescient that Juanita Adams' Lakota name, Omani Wi, means "woman on the longest walk." Because her last journey took 30 years—until she reached her final resting place with her family, in South Dakota's Badlands on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
A member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, Juanita was 19 years old when she left Pine Ridge in 1978 to join the American Indian...
Law Enforcement Resources
OJP, along with DOJ partners, are committed to supporting and protecting America's law enforcement. Featured resources include officer safety & wellness, DOJ resources, VALOR, tribal law enforcement, and helping law enforcement combat opioids.
Solving the Missing Indigenous Person Data Crisis: NamUs 2.0
Searching for the Missing in a City of Millions
Date Published
May 2019
Series
NIJ Journal
Publication Type
Technical Assistance, Program/Project Description, Issue Overview, Historical Overview
Agencies
NIJ
NIJ Journal Issue No. 264
Date Published
November 2009
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ
