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  • document cover for Third Status Report to the Attorney General on Body Armor Safety Initiative Testing and Activities

    Third Status Report to the Attorney General on Body Armor Safety Initiative Testing and Activities

    Findings from a ballistic and mechanical properties test of 103 used Zylon-containing body armor are presented. This report contains the following sections: executive summary; supplemental results from Phase I testing; Phase II testing results; results of Phase I and II ballistic testing; applied research; compliance testing process review and modifications; summary; complete results of Phase I (Worst Case) P-BFS test; Phase I (Worst Case) ballistic limit and tensile strength test results; results of Phase II P-BFS testing; and individual armor models tested. The "results clearly show that used Zylon-containing body armor may not provide the intended level of ballistic resistance" (p. 3).

  • document cover for Practical Implications of Current Domestic Violence Research: For Law Enforcement, Prosecutors and Judges

    Practical Implications of Current Domestic Violence Research: For Law Enforcement, Prosecutors and Judges

    This report covers research related to domestic violence. Eight sections make up this document: overview; reporting and arrests; perpetrator characteristics; victim characteristics; law enforcement responses; prosecution responses; judicial responses; and intervention programs.

  • document cover for Mending Justice: Sentinel Event Reviews

    Mending Justice: Sentinel Event Reviews

    In this publication, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) explores the feasibility of mobilizing an “organizational accident,” learning-from-error approach in the criminal justice system. We introduce the notion of the “sentinel event”: a bad outcome that no one wants repeated and that signals the existence of underlying weaknesses in the system.