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Agenda: 2008 NIJ Conference

Monday, July 21

8:30 a.m.	Welcome and Opening Remarks Kevin J. O'Connor, Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
8:45 a.m.	Plenary Panel More prisons, more prisoners: Time for a policy change?
10:15 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	Concurrent Panels Cell phone forensics: Catching the bad guys in the age of mobile technology DNA tools for tomorrow (Part 1) Gang intervention and enforcement in Chicago Police fatigue and officer performance Post-release supervision and residential choice Preventing campus rape: NIJ study offers new data Systematic reviews of criminal justice interventions Terrorism in time and space
12:00 p.m.	Break
12:15 p.m.	Luncheon and Keynote Speaker Race, crime and common ground: Lessons from a decade of action research
1:45 p.m.	Concurrent Panels Crime analysis and policing: Implementing new technologies Detecting concealed weapons with millimeter wave technology Economists study forensic science: The state of forensics in the United States Forensic anthropology and its role in death investigations Hidden abuse: Mistreatment of the elderly in residential care Longitudinal research on crime and delinquency: Lessons concerning early childhood and transitions to adult roles Parolee supervision strategies that result in successful outcomes
3:15 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	Concurrent Panels Enhancing program implementation fidelity: Results from two school-based prevention programs Post-lunch panel — Race, crime and common ground: Lessons from a decade of action research Forensic science demonstrations/poster session Rail and port security: Protecting critical infrastructure Sex offender residency restrictions and recidivism State sentencing guidelines: Implementation and implications Staying one step ahead: Crime forecasting and geographic profiling
5:00 p.m.	Adjourn

Tuesday, July 22

8:30 a.m.	Plenary Panel Making smarter decisions: Connecting crime mapping with city officials
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m.	Concurrent Panels Conducted-energy devices: Controversial alternative to use of deadly force DNA tools for tomorrow (Part 2) Do protection orders effectively protect victims? International perspectives on neighborhood policing Ganging up on youth gangs: Best practices to shut them down New research on methamphetamine production and use Practical applications of prison rape prevalence data
11:45 a.m.	Break
12:15 p.m.	Luncheon Speaker and Special Recognition
1:30 p.m.	Break
1:45 p.m.	Concurrent Panels Geography, neighborhoods and crime Less-lethal technology and police use of force Locating and tracking the good guys Pretrial release and jail detention The social science side of DNA A study of LA's BEST (Better Educated Students for Tomorrow) after school enrichment program Whose print is it really? Does confirmation bias affect the answer?
3:15 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	Concurrent Panels Cutting-edge research on incarceration, alternatives and reentry: A report from abroad Federal resources for crime laboratories Guns and crime: Mapping patterns and preventing violence Sexual assault nurse examiner programs: Do they boost prosecution rates? Stopping contraband at the prison gate Taking the information highway beyond the next interchange You can run, but you can't hide!
5:00 p.m.	Adjourn

Wednesday, July 23

9:00 a.m.	Concurrent Panels Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC): Pathways and prosecution Federal consent decrees: The good, the bad, and the future Free technology to help solve missing or unidentified decedent cases Hotbeds of radicalization in contemporary American society Protecting the practitioner from evolving threats Violence in communities: Modeling and predicting crime patterns
10:30 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m.	Concurrent Panels Analyzing neighborhood characteristics and crime patterns Commercial exploitation and human trafficking: Identifying victims and reducing demand Promising prisoner reentry findings and opportunities for success Reducing gun and drug-related violence through targeted deterrence Stopping the school-yard bully: Two promising programs Verifying identity with technology
12:15 p.m.	Break
12:30 p.m.	Luncheon and Keynote Presentation Wrongfully convicted: The road to truth
2:00 p.m.	Concurrent Panels The changing face of public housing: Mapping new crime patterns CompStat, community policing and the diffusion of innovation New tools to stop child exploitation over the Internet Policy changes in the juvenile justice system from inside and out Program updates from NIJ's Investigative and Forensic Sciences Division and the FBI Stalking: Moving toward a better understanding of a misunderstood crime
3:30 p.m.	Conference Adjourns

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