"R & D" For the Homefront War
By 1965, the United States could boast a sophisticated counterinsurgency apparatus in Southeast Asia -- and then the Watts ghetto of Los Angeles exploded, revealing the total inadequacy of our...
...3) information on police organizations to be used as a research reference...
...NI-200 $6,542 From 6/30/69 to 9/30/70 Grantee: Indiana University Foundation, Bloomington, Indiana Title: Organizational Response to Civil Disorder Abstract: The goal of the project is to explore and illuminate patterns of response of various public organizations in Indiana to the threat or realization of civil disorder with respect to organizational planning, training, operational decisionmnaking, and interorganizational behavior...
...Not surprisingly, Washington called in its battle-tested experts on Third World counterinsurgency to plan the new attack on domestic instability...
...c Night vision equipment-defining performance requirements and technical specifications, and tests of prototypes of civilian versions of the Army passive equipment...
...3. Department of Transportation a Cooperative funding of grants to five cities to analyze automatic vehicle location system requirements emphasizing transportation and law enforcement usage.24 4. Department of Housing and Urban Development a Formal participation in the inter-agency conferences on Public Urban Locator Systems Evaluation...
...that a direct approach via local community associations and through individuals within a neighborhood coupled with a positive working relationship between a drug rehabilitation community, law enforcement agencies, public defenders, and other social agencies can lessen tensions and bring about a higher degree of law and order to a community...
...Specifically it will seek: ( 1) to construct indexes of correctional program effectiveness...
...The project will: (1) Make a preliminary study of current police-community relations programs being utilized throughout the Nation...
...Emphasis will be on Spectrum Management (Phase II...
...2) the effect that police labor organizations have on the judicial and police department disciplinary process...
...Title: Development and Implementation of a Behavioral/Systems Approach to Prevention and Control of Delinquency and Crime...
...NI-076 $2,569 From 9/1/69 to 5/31/70 Grantee: Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro Tide: Attitudes and Attitude Changes in Law Enforcement Officers Abstract: This research is intended to accomplish the following general purposes: () To generate information cncerning certain specific attitudes of law enforcement officers of differing levels of experience and training, drawn from differing population areas and organizational structures...
...The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-351) creates a National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice as the research arm of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA...
...Representatives of law enforcement systems need to understand better the particular issues and potentials in student-school crises, and the ways they may be most helpful to students and educators...
...2) to evaluate programs in terms of their ability to reduce delinquency rate...
...1. National Institute Organization & Illustrative Functions...
...The preventative or responsive measures available to national and local policy-makers are few...
...The factors which contribute to the socialization of the recruits are: () first on-the-street experiences...
...NI-023 $49,663 From 6/30/69 to 1/31/70 Grantee: George Washington University, Washington, D.C...
...Emphasis will be placed on quantifying the knowledge of present experts in criminalistics so as to allow a structured approach to both enhance and multiply this expertise to the benefit of all areas of the country...
...APPENDIX: National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Research Contracts Source: FIRST ANNUAL REPORT 1969 LAW ENFORCEMENT ASISTANCE ADMINISTRATION NI-094 Grantee: Title: Abstract: $6,070 From 7/1/69 to 6/15/70 Arizona State University, Tempe Police and the Urban Minorities of Phoenix (PUMP) The Police and the Urban Minorities of Phoenix, "Project PUMP," is an interdisciplinary approach designed to pump the resources of the university and those of metropolitan Phoenix into the solution of problems arising from abrasive relations between disadvantaged minorities and law enforcement agencies...
...6. National Aeronautics and Space Agency a General discussions of utilizing NASA capability and NASA-developed technology to assist in solving crime problems...
...To launch this campaign, the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a university-sponsored military think-tank, was asked to prepare a "Task Force Report" on Science and Technology for the President's Commission of Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice...
...The second objective is to evaluate a study completed by the Institute for Behavioral Research at the National Training School for Boys...
...g Indicators of civil disorders-a study of social and other conditions which indicate a likelihood of civil disorders...
...NI-030 $35,714.20 From 6/30/69 to 6/30/71 Grantee: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Title: Patrolmen in Urban Environments Abstract: This project is designed to study the technical and cultural processes by which a citizen is enrolled, trained, and acculturated into an urban police force...
...The Institute has been invited to participate in an evaluation of military correctional methods and techniques...
...The purpose of the conferences is to define unmet user requirements in specific areas as a basis for identifying and designing research in these areas...
...3) bridge the gap between the law enforcement and the social service systems...
...NI-087 $8,650 From 7/1/69 to 7/1/70 Grantee: Odyssey House, Inc., New York City Title: Odyssey House Community Involvement Center: A Drug Rehabilitation Pilot Project Abstract: The aim of the Community Involvement Center (CIC) and the thrust of the grant application is to demonstrate that a voluntary drug rehabilitation agency which uses both professionals and exaddicts as part of its therapeutic community can affect change in a heavy crime-drug area . . . that a planned, intensive program of education based on drug abuse prevention can hold back the tide on the increased use of drugs and involvement in crime...
...high operational costs of leased telephone lines, and the efficient handling of the annunciator or read out when a large number of alarms are involved...
...While basic tactics are available to handle routine riots and occasional terrorism, the broader concept of a whole program of counterinsurgency is hardly even discussed among police here or abroad...
...The two conferences will be: (1) Computer Applications in Law Enforcement, and (2) Police Response Time...
...The study would seek to answer the questions of whether such participation is possible from the standpoint of the court officials, desirable from the standpoint of juvenile offenders, and advantageous, in a measurable way, to the process of rehabilitation...
...joint funding of an outside contractor is being contemplated...
...Many of these projects call for the application of social science research in determining how the anger and frustration of youth and minority peoples can be channeled into "constructive," non-violent activities...
...The results of this study will be applicable with appropriate modifications to many other States and will furnish an important planning tool for allocating resources to obtain an effective state criminal justice system...
...Paul, Minnesota The Efficiency of Law Enforcement Resources It is the objective of this study to statistically estimate the efficiency of law enforcement in reducing the number of major crimes against property...
...e Second-chance enlistments-evaluation of a program in which enlistment in military service was systematically made available as a sentencing option for certain categories of offenders...
...NI-065 $6,000 From 6/15/69 to 9/1/69 Grantee: Travis County Juvenile Court, Austin, Texas Title: Augmentation of Moral Judgment in the Adolescent Juvenile Delinquent Abstract: The research consists of investigating the effects of modeling behavior on the moral judgment of delinquents...
...The Michigan State Police with Western Michigan University have collected data from two school systems with the intent of measuring the attitudes of the school populations toward police officers and law enforcement...
...It will investigate not only the effects of these centers upon the community itself but also on the whole process of administering criminal justice...
...ml m NI-026 Grantee: Title: Abstract: $50,141 From 6/30/69 to 9/30170 Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Analysis of a Statewide Criminal Justice System A study of the entire criminal justice system at the State level (Pennsylvania) is being done so that a clear understanding of the interrelationships among the elements of a State criminal justice system can be developed from a broad vantage point, and thereby detect and hopefully avoid bottlenecks and conflicts which occur within the elements of any system which must function together smoothly...
...2) to determine the attitudes of Statecorrectional administrators and members of the community power structure toward the role of industries and toward such new programs as halfway houses and work release...
...This is an attempt to view this kind of criminal activity in a broad enough context to determine not only where and at what levels crime may be expected, but also to identify the critical factors leading to economic crimes...
...b Discussions of possible joint funding with the Office of Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Development...
...The program model is divided int five subareas: (1) Selection, (2) matching, (3) training, (4) followup services, and (5) evaluation...
...The study will provide police administrators, labor leaders, and city officials with: (I) A suitable framework within which the groups can achieve their competing interests with minimum disruption to the police purpose and public safety...
...5,000 From 6/5/69 to 6/5/70 University of Washington, Seattle Seattle Police Disciplinary Procedures Project This study has as its objective the improvement of disciplinary procedures within police departments through the cooperative efforts of a law school and a police department...
...The major components of the program are (I) a short form presentence report containing objective background information about the defendant, (2) sentencing guidelines and (3) referrals of selected defendants to community agencies for supervision and assistance...
...The proposed project will provide assistance to the Mississippi Choctaws in dealing with law enforcement problems and in establishing a tribal system of law and order...
...Should police forces be consolidated...
...Specifically, the effect the decision has on the organization, operation and philosophy of juvenile justice...
...This will help to clarify the political feasibility and the communication and data problems involved in making a statewide criminal justice system meaningful...
...A list of these projects, reproduced from the First Annual Report of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, appears below...
...The latter groups need a better understanding of the potential role of law enforcement systems, and the implications of school unrest for local police and judiciary agencies...
...Specifically they will be trained to deal with: (I) offenses against family and children, (2) incorrigible juveniles, (3) family disturbances, and (4) "disturbing the peace" calls...
...NI-066 $6,300 From 7/1/69 to 71/70 Grantee: Orange Coast Junior College District, Costa Mesa, California, and Los Angeles Police Department, California Title: Project Calcop Abstract: The general objectives of the project are to: (1) Develop training materials and techniques which can be used in police training using a computer assisted approach...
...The Act authorizes the Institute to conduct research studies with its own staff, and "to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public agencies, institutions of higher education, or private organizations to conduct research, demonstrations, or special projects pertaining to . . . the development of new or improved approaches, techniques, systems, equipment, and devices to improve and strengthen law enforcement...
...NI-080 Grantee: Title: Abstract: $4,551 From 7/1/69 to 2/1/70 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio An Economic Analysis of Distribution of Police Patrol The first part of the study would research the existing distribution of police manpower in relation to iportant social and economic variables such as level of income and education, population density and social composition...
...An alarming operational and doctrinal vacuum pervades our own and other democratic countries in the face of the UI threat...
...3. Ibid., p.2...
...It is expected to provide an explanatory fraitework for social behavior and a program for the management of the general system...
...An evaluation of the training will be made in terms of such variables as the reduction in the number of injuries sustained during family crisis intervention...
...2) impart social welfare techniques, knowledge and skill to law enforcement personnel...
...b Riot control agents-provision of technical information on the character of riot control agents and their use...
...6,188 From 7/1/69 to 6/30/70 University of Southern California, Los Angeles Decisionmaking, Correctional Alternatives and Recidivism The proposal is concerned with doing research on the operation and results of legal and correctional systems...
...M.K...
...This study used the technique of operant conditioning to change the behavior of 41 selected inmates...
...The military often is called in to control a situation which has exceeded the capacity of the regular police, but they too lack a doctrine, training, or materials to do more than simply quell mass actio...
...2) credibility profiles of police officers are not affected by the race of the officer or the race of the respondent...
...and (3) to achieve a better matching of types of offenders with type of correctional programs...
...Observation will be carried out in a program of systematic field work extending over a full year and will cover the range of ecological types in American cities...
...Nl-202~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ $65,000 From 6/30/69 to 12/30/69 National Conference on Citizenship, Rockville, Maryland Responsible Participation of Youth in Public Life The primary objectives of the research will be to study alienated youth with focus upon an evaluation of in-depth case studies in three areas: () The university campus...
...NI-093 $5,000 From 6/23/69 to 6/22/70 Grantee: Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Title: Attitudinal Changes in Law Enforcement and College Student Populations Abstract: This proposal is directed to the analysis of the Component parts of a college course which are designed not only to produce understanding of law enforcement philosophies, concepts, and procedural operations, but also to produce a favorable change in attitudes towards the criminal justice system...
...2 This situation should be changed, IDA argues, since "The experience of science in the military . . . suggests that a fruitful collaboration can be established between criminal justice officials on one hand and engineers, physicists, economists, and social and behavioral scientists on the other...
...d Nonlethal bullet-possible development of the flechette with an anesthetic, or other effective form of nonlethal ammunition...
...Using cross sectional data for the United States, statistical estimates of the parameters of an economical model of criminal behavior will be ascertained...
...NI-056 $6,423 From 7/15/69 to 2/16/70 Grantee: Human Interaction Research Institute, Los Angeles, California Title: Training Policemen to Deal with Family Disturbances Abstract: The purpose of the proposal is to train police to deal with "family disturbances" in addition to law enforcement duties, the apprehension of criminals and crime prevention training...
...NI-060 $6,000 From 7/26/69 to 6/13/70 Grantee: Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio Title: The Impact of Community Corrections Centers upon a Correctional System Abstract: This project is concerned with the impact of four recently established community correctional centers upon the correctional system of Vermont and its applicability in other parts of the Nation...
...3) credibility of police officers is greater when the officers are represented as communicating in an area which lies in their professional competence...
...and (4) promote social stability in the community...
...NI-040 $59,130 From 7//69 to 6/30/70 Grantee: Institute for Social Research, The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Tide: Alternative Responses to School Crisis Abstract: It is a goal of this project to work with three schools to try out several models of alternative and more creative response to crisis and disruption...
...The model attempts to specify decision within each subarea and to identify important variables which influence the decision making process...
...7. Department of Health, Education and Welfare a National Institute of Mental Health-discussion of research areas of mutual interest with the several NIH Centers, including contemplated joint funding of crime-related research...
...NI-003 $144, 505 From 1/1/69 to 9/30/69 Grantee: Associated Public Safety Communications Officers (APCO) Tide: Illinois Police Communication Study, Phase II Abstract: Design of optimum police communications systems for the 3-State area of Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Gary, Indiana (Metropolitan Chicago...
...It is proposed that federal funds be made available so that after I year's exposure the same researchers may again test for any measurable amounts of attitudinal change and also attempt to determine which of the police school liaison activities are most' effective and which might have a negative influence...
...Abstract: This study will analyze the effectiveness of our social institutions, education, welfare courts and corrections in the control and treatment of delinquents...
...3) to discuss, analyze and publish the results...
...The project will use the computed information and convert it into an action program to provide employment opportunities and training strategies in the various elements of the criminal justice system...
...It should provide an analysis of what has been learned, what mistakes have been made, what areas of inquiry deserve no further support and what significant gaps require new efforts...
...The results will also provide further classification of the relationships between moral judgment and moral behavior...
...Findings will contribute further to the parameters of influence of social reinforcement theory in moral socialization of the child...
...NI-043 $125,000 From 6/30/69 to 10/13/70 Grantee: City of Louisville, Kentucky Title: Fast Response Criminal Warning System Abstract: This project will attack two major alarm problems...
...NI-085 $5,000 From 6/15/69 to 12/15/69 Grantee: Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C...
...NI-202 Grantee: Tide: Abstract:21 NI-073 Grantee: Tidtle: Abstract: $6,557 From 9/1/69 to 6/1/70 University of Nebraska, Lincoln Evaluative Research of a Community-based Crime Prevention Program There are two general goals of the proposed research project: ( ) Evaluation of the effectiveness of the volunteer counselor program...
...This model system should be easily replicated, at low cost, in other cities...
...and (3) the assistance to legislators in the formulation and drafting of legislative reforms of youth court statutes...
...f Study of military rehabilitation practices-the services, particularly the Army and the Air Force, have devoted a much higher level of resources for the treatment of offenders than civil authorities, especially with regard to short-term sentences...
...FOOTNOTES: 1. John L. Sorenson, Urban Insurgency Cases (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Defense Research Corp., 1965), pp...
...What factors are important in determining the amount of crime...
...It is expected to evaluate the factors that affect the classification of major index crimes and to develop ways of estimating base populations for victim statistics...
...c The Technical Utilization Division has agreed to accept problem abstracts which will provide a basis for having technical problems surveyed by NASA's personnel and in the NASA data bank...
...In contrast, as recently as 1965, the Justice Department was the only Cabinet department with no share of the roughly $15 billion Federal Research and Development budget...
...NI-032 $25,000 From 6/15/69 to 12/15/69 Grantee: University of California at Berkeley Title: Physical Evidence Utilization Abstract: Examine and evaluate impact on crime control of various criminalistics operations...
...2) observe the effectiveness of methods used...
...Similar developments appear possible in criminal justice...
...The research and development budget in other criminal justice organizations is negligible...
...NI-009 $102,148 From 6/30/69 to 6/30/70 Grantee: Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Title: Study of the Police Vehicle Abstract: The overall goal of this project is to understand the role of the vehicle in relation to police departments and from this understanding will come a better vehicle for police use, a better set of policies for its use, and a better program for procurement, replacement and operation...
...It is expected that a critique of current methods will reveal new legal alternatives which will expedite trial of criminal cases...
...Recommendations will be made with regard to the potential of methadone treatment as a method for dealing with addicts and addict-created crime.23 NI-089 Grantee: Title: Abstract: NI-090 Grantee: Title: Abstract: NI-054 Grantee: Title: Abstract: $6,300 From 7/1/69 to 4/30/70 University of Virginia, Charlottesville Research for the Enhancement of Correctional Endeavors The purpose of the research is to conduct a pilot study for the enhancement of correctional endeavors in Virginia...
...NI-083 $5,845 From 7/1/69 to 3/31/70 Grantee: Mary Holmes Junior College, West Point, Mississippi Tide: Proposed Study Concerning Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Court Reform Abstract: The proposed research plan involves the following: (1) A general review and anaylsis of the youth court ystem of Mississippi...
...It aims to provide a basis for planning crime prevention programs by giving us a baseline evaluation of what has gone before...
...Title: Youth Involvement Programs-Inventory and Prospectus Abstract: The objective of the study is to establish criteria for the success or failure of youth involvement programs...
...NI-037 $54,867 From 7/11/69 to 6/30/70 Grantee: The Justice Foundation, Fayetteville, Arkansas Tide: Regional Law Enforcement Assistance Program Abstract: This feasibility study relates to the problems of working among state, county, and local jurisdictions...
...NI-063 $4,945 From 6/15/69 to 6/15/70 Grantee: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Title: Socialization of Police Rcruits Abstract: The purpose of the research is to explore the nature and effects of socialization processes on police recruits...
...5. Federal Communications Commission a Consultations concerning alleviating the police radio spectrum problem...
...The primary goal of the study is to recommend systems of criminalistics operations that would meet cost/benefit criteria while serving the needs of local communities, regional areas and the nation...
...Title: An Experiment in Using Legal Skills to Reduce Police-Community Hostility Abstract: The primary goal of the project is to involve members of the private bar in the solution of a major problem facing law enforcement agencies: Community hostility to the practices and methods used in law enforcement...
...The implications of this research reside in its possible application to the treatment of juvenile delinquency...
...In its report to the Commission, IDA noted that, "The Defense Department spends about $7 billion a year on research and development, about 13 percent of its regular budget...
...2. Federal Council on Science and Technology a Observer participation in regular Council meetings...
...Its objective is the germination of better research ideas...
...By 1965, the United States could boast a sophisticated counterinsurgency apparatus in Southeast Asia -- and then the Watts ghetto of Los Angeles exploded, revealing the total inadequacy of our homefront counterinsurgency forces, the local police, in coping with major urban disorders...
...Using the IDA proposal as a model, the Institute subsequently awarded several million dollars' worth of contracts to universities and other non-profit institutions...
...The program will also be used to stimulate graduate research programs in this area...
...c Institute review of several proposals having crime prevention aspects...
...NI-033 $14,600 From 6/9/69 to 12/9/69 Grantee: Governor's Public Safety Committee, Boston, Massachusetts Title: Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice Education Survey Abstract: This project undertakes to survey the needs, resources, and other facilities of professional and preprofessional education for law enforcement and corrections personnel...
...and (3) prepare guidelines for the establishment of policecommunity relations programs.22 NI-092 Grantee: Title: Abstract: NI-088 Grantee: Title: Abstract: NI-050 Grantee: Title: Abstract: $7,960 From 7/1/69 to 10/31/69 Research Analysis Corporation, McLean, Virginia A Feasibility Study of Offender Participation in the Dispositional Decision of a Juvenile Court A study is proposed to determine the feasibility of a demonstration project to test whether offender participation in the dispositional decisionmaking process of the juvenile court is possible and practical, and to discover the probable effects upon the individual offender and the recidivist rates...
...NI-045 $50,000 From 6/30/69 to 12/13/69 Grantee: Franklin Institute Research Laboratories, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Title: User Requirements Conferences Abstract: This grant will support the conducting of two conferences on selected critical topics in law enforcement...
...and (4) statistics and converting them to conclusions and trends...
...Other projects are designed to modernize police communications, intelligence, and "command-and-control" systems...
...and to develop a coordinated plan to serve as a blueprint for such education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and as a model for similar programs throughout the United States...
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...NI-041 $21,955 From 7/1/69 to 12/31/69 Grantee: University of California at Santa Barbara Title: Econometric Study of Economy-Related Crimes Abstract: This is a study to determine the interrelationships among economic, age, education, and law enforcement factors for a selected age group of offenders committing economic crimes on the arrest rates for these crimes...
...NI-047 $118,800 From 7/1/69 to 6/30/70 Grantee: Institute for Behavioral Research, Silver Spring, Maryland Title: Develop a Study of Alternatives to Punishment in Maintaining Law and Order Abstract: This research project has two objectives: The first objective is to study alternatives to punitive law enforcement measures, such as fines and incarcerations, by investigating the feasibility of preventive systems based on constructive re-enforcement...
...and (3) the social, economic, and political institutions of American society...
...1 In order to fill this "operational and doctrinal vacuum," the government hurriedly began a program of research designed to upgrade our ability to control urban violence...
...N 1-059 $5,000 From 7/1/69 to 1/1/70 Grantee: University of Nevada, Reno Title: Expediting the Criminal Processes Abstract: It is proposed that procedures presently employed in metropolitan courts to process criminal cases from arrests through final disposition be critically examined...
...NI-036 $61,825 From 6/30/69 to 6/30/70 Grantee: Vera Institute of Justice, New York, New York Tide: Bronx Sentencing Project Abstract: The overall goal of this project is to develop a sentencing model for adult misdemeanants which can be adapted for use in any high volume misdemeanor court in an urban setting...
...NI-084 55,987.34 From 7/1/69 to 3/31/70 Grantee: Tucson Police Department, Arizona Title: Police Labor Organizations Abstract: The purpose of the project is to study police labor organizations, the problems created by them, and the potential solutions to these problems...
...b Technical participation in NASA study of future impact of NASA-developed technology on law enforcement communication systems...
...The objective in the broad sense is to aid in achieving better police operations within the best cost framework...
...4. Ibid., p. 82...
...NI-075 Grantee: Title: Abstract: $5,000 From 6/15/69 to 12/31/69 Portland State University, Oregon Police-Community Relations Evaluation Project The primary goal of the project is to develop criteria for the evaluation of police-community relations programs...
...1718 NI-028 Grantee: Title: Abstract: $64,955 From 6/13/69 to 6/13/70 City University of New York Training Police as Specialists in Family Crisis Intervention This project is an extension of research done by the City University of New York with the New York Police Department...
...Recommendations will be made to the Institute with regard to sentencing in misdemeanors...
...It is hoped that formalizing disciplinary procedures will strengthen police morale, minimize the possibility of unfairness or arbitrariness, provide the police department with legal assistance in a sensitive area arid improve police-community relations...
...Police contacts in interactional situations will be given particular attention...
...A project to develop an experimental text consisting of cases and materials on Michigan Criminal law for the police administration courses in substantive criminal law at the college and university level...
...Appendix B Collaboration With Federal Agencies By The National Institute Of Law Enforcement And Criminal Justice Discussions of specific cooperative research have been conducted by the Institute with the following Federal agencies: 1. Department of Defense a Personal transceiver for police-contracting assistance and consultation is being provided...
...2) the dissemination of information for the benefit of officials involved in the administration of justice to juveniles before the youth courts...
...An attempt will be made to answer such questions as: Are sufficient funds allocated to crime prevention...
...4 This proposal was adopted by the President's Commission and subsequently incorporated into legislation...
...PUMP is proposed as the beginning of a long term research, programing, and planning structure to assist in solving complex social, legal, political, and economic questions to which law enforcement agencies must address themselves...
...The material would cover the traditional offenses both against the person and property that are ordinarily covered in a beginning course in criminal law...
...In military research organizations these different professions, working with military officers in interdisciplinary teams, have attacked defense problems in new ways and have provided insights that were new even to those with long military experience...
...b Urban Information System Inter-Agency Committeea multi-agency endeavor to build a single model computer-based urban information system...
...A wide variety of information on this model program will be collected, analyzed, and evaluated in the course of this research effort...
...The researchers will employ semnistructured interview schedules, structured questiomnnaries and official documents as sources of data...
...It is based upon the assumption that aspects of the physical cnvironnment can be structured in a manner which will channel the creative energies of young people and adults to constructive rather than criminal street behavior...
...NI-071 $6,330 From 9/1/69 to 8/1/70 Grantee: Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Tile: The Policeman-His Credibility As A Message Source Abstract: The study proposes to test the following hypotheses concerning the credibility of police officers: (1) police officers as information sources have a credibility profile that is no different from any other professional group...
...2) To determine whether or not these attitudes undergo change during periods of instruction of varying kinds designed to improve law enforcement skills of the personnel, and to estimate the direction and degree of these attitude changes within and between the different groups...
...NI-039 $101,083 From 6/30/69 to 5/31/70 Grantee...
...5,000 From 7/1/69 to 9/30/70 College of St...
...3 Using military research organizations as a model, IDA proposed that the Federal government establish a research institute devoted to law enforcement research: "Probably the most important single mechanism for bringing the resources of science and technology to bear on the problems of crime would be the establishment of a major prestigious science and technology research program within a research institute...
...NI-079 $5,000 From 7/1/69 to 6/30/70 Grantee: University of Kansas, Lawrence Title: Juvenile Justice After Gault: A Study of Three State Systems Abstract: The research objective is to explore the effect of the Supreme Court Gault decision on the State juvenile courts...
...and (2) to conduct and evaluate a developmental and experimental project in criminal law as a basis for creating a model which can be used in police training...
...PUMP will be directed toward the improvement of law enforcenlemt services as well as toward identification of factors which operate to prevent crime...
...2) the black community...
...Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C...
...In addition the program will develop methodology for collecting data on inmates and processing it efficiently...
...8,069.10 From 6/20/69 to 9/20/69 Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Production of a college level text to be entitled "Cases and Materials on Michigan Criminal aw for the Police...
...NI-029 $87,695 From 6/30/69 to 3/31/70 Grantee: New Transcentury Foundation, Inc., Washington, D.C...
...Title: Study and Evaluation of Projects and Programs Funded under the Law Enforcement Assistance Act of 1965 Abstract: An evaluation of the completed projects funded under the LEA Act is the objective of this study...
...2) prevailing attitudes of veteran officers in his precinct and (3) type of clientele...
...and (2) development of predictive techniques to improve the efficiency of the total program...
...NI-031 Grantee: Title: Abstract: $101,914 From 9/1/68 to 731/69 Institute for the Study of Crime & Delinquency, Sacramento, California lModel Community Corrections Program-Phase II This continuation grant will provide second stage funds to construct a model community correctional prograin designed to interface with a typical county criminal justice system in providing disposition alternatives fr clint control and treatment through community based programs evolved from planning activities conducted utinder a previous LEA Act grant.19 NI-025 Grantee: Title: Abstract: $60,676 From 6/30/69 to 12/31/70 University of Iowa, Iowa City The Role of Industries in a Comprehensive Correctional Program The objectives of this study are: () To tabulate and analyze the current status of the correctional industries programs in seven midwest States...
...2. Institute for Defense Analyses, Task Force Report: Science and Technology (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1967), pp...
...NI-070 $5,000 From 7/14169 to 8/31/69 Grantee: Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc., New York, New York Title: Law and Order on the Mississippi Choctaw Reservation Abstract: The project will address itself to the area of Indian reservation law enforcement by studying a single tribe's problems in this field...
...NI-091 $4,957 From 7/1/69 to 6/30/70 Grantee: Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio Title: Professional Social Work Consultation to Police Abstract: The goals of this proposal are to: (1) Provide training, education and consultation services for prevention of social disorganization...
...The research will train selected members of the Public Housing Police Force as specialists in family crisis intervention...
...The first problem is alleviated by using normal existing telephone circuit and the latter problem is alleviated by computer decoding of the alarm signal...
...It is also a goal of this project to develop and demonstrate programs to create new links between protesting student groups, educational leaders and police officials...
...In order to establish guidelines for such projects, LEAA commissioned IDA to prepare "A National Program of Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice...
...NI-034 $13,280 From 6/30/69 to 3/15/70 Grantee: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Tide: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Criminal Justice Administration and Corrections Abstract: An interdisciplinary seminar will be established by the University of Michigan Law School to discuss research needs in the area of crime and delinquency...
...A researcher for the Defense Research Corporation (DRC), John L. Sorenson, wrote in 1965, "Investigations by DRC of the state of the field in 1964 indicate that the United States is inadequately prepared to counter urban insurgency [UI...
...Nl-016 $5,397 From 5/1/69 to 8/31/69 Grantee: University of Kentucky, Lexington Title: Publication of Electronics Countermeasures Conference Abstract: Dissemination of the proceedings of the third annual conference on electronic crime-control countermeasures...
...NI-068 $4,985 From 9/1/69 to 8/31/70 Grantee: Department of State Police, East Lansing, Michigan Tite: Evaluation of Michigan State Police-Public School Liaison Program Abstract: The intent of this proposal is to secure funds for the completion of an independent, objective, scientific evaluation of an existing police-school liaison program by trained social researchers...
...Only a limited amount of research has been done in this area...
...Thomas, St...
...NI-038 Grantee: Title: Abstract: $105,000 From 6/30/69 to 6/30/70 Vera Institute of Justice, New York, New York Evaluation of the Effects of Methadone Treatment on Crime and Criminal Narcotics Addicts Funds are requested for the criminal evaluation segment of a proposed narcotics program including methadone treatment in the City of New York to be located in the model cities areas of Bedford, Stuyvesant, Harlem, and South Bronx...
...NI-044 $100,000 From 6/30/69 to 6/30/70 Grantee: Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, Missouri Tide: A Systems Analysis of Criminalistics Operations Abstract: This study will be a comprehensive systems analysis of the crime laboratory in law enforcement and criminal justice...
...NI-024 $37,746 From 6/30/69 to 12/30/69 Grantee: City University of New York Title: Physical Environment and Urban Street Behavior Abstract: This pilot project will explore the impact of physical environment upon urban street behavior in a selected area of New York City...
...NI-077 $6,655 From 9/1/69 to 12/30/69 Grantee: Pennsylvania State University, University Park Title: Manpower, the Administration of Criminal Justice, and New Recruitment Target Groups Abstract: The purpose of the study is to develop a central information source on the number, types, and caliber of personnel involved in the administration of criminal justice in Pennsylvania...
...The second part of the study would concern the optional allocation of patrol forces to minimize the cost of crime to society.20 m m m NI-027 Grantee: Tidte: Abstract: $50,714 From 6/30/69 to 6/30/70 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Methodological Studies of Crime Classification The accurate assessment of the volume of crime and of particular kinds of crineic is the objective of this study...
...b Formal participation in a study group to develop cooperative research where DoD expertise and resources can make a significant contribution to domestic problems such as crime...
...NI-035 $33,815 From 7/1/69 to 1/1/71 Grantee: The Technological Institute, Evanston, Illinois Title: Prediction and Optimization for Police Beats Abstract: This study will make use of previous empirical work done in several cities on the police beat problem, and provide a more basic rationale for the prediction of criminal activity in real situations as the first step in improving the operational effectiveness of law enforcement activity...
Vol. 3 • February 1970 • No. 10
