"OVERVIEW. In 1977, political scientist William Ker Muir concluded that the
essence of police work is coercion. Muir's argument is summarized in Fyfe et al. (
1997, pp. 43–44) as follows: Like politicians . . . police are in the business of
convincing people to do things they would not otherwise be inclined to do. . . .
police face a major challenge in trying to avoid the use of force in their attempts to
get others to behave in cert ..."
"Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, The Advent of Netwar, Santa Monica, Calif.:
RAND,MR-789-OSD, 1996a. Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, “Information,
Power, and Grand Strategy: In Athena's Camp,” in Stuart J. D. Schwartzstein, ed.,
The Information Revolution and National Security: Dimensions and Directions,
Washington, D.C.: Center for International and Strategic Studies, 1996b, pp. 132–
180. Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, ..."
"This study recommends that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) adopt a concept of police professionalism that incorporates the tenets of corporateness, responsibility, and expertise as the mechanism for guiding the development and execution of its training, to include training in the areas of use of force, search and seizure, arrest procedures, community policing, and diversity awareness."
"In this report, the authors examine how fragmentation within and misalignment between the education and child welfare systems influence opportunities for the cross-system collaboration needed to support students in foster care."
"Researchers provide a nuanced assessment of America's opioid ecosystem, highlighting how leveraging system interactions can reduce addiction, overdose, suffering, and other harms."
"This report provides updated findings from the evaluation of the Senate Bill (SB) 1041 reforms to the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program, with ongoing implementation informed by an All-County Survey, state-level interviews, and interviews and focus groups in six focal counties, plus further insights on participant outcomes examined with state administrative data."
"To assist the U.S. Marine Corps in evaluating its sexual assault prevention programs, the authors of this report identify and develop measures of performance and measures of effectiveness with which to assess the programs. The research team created a logic model framework to guide evaluations and mapped program goals to measures that assess the degree to which each outcome has been achieved."
"This report provides initial findings from the evaluation of the Senate Bill 1041 reforms to the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program, with implementation informed by an All-County Survey, state-level interviews, and interviews and focus groups in six focal counties, plus initial insights on participant outcomes explored with state administrative data and nationally representative data from the Current Populati ..."
"The report categorizes school safety technologies, noting the lack of research about school safety technology and summarizing the existing research on school violence; presents six case studies of innovative technologies used in schools; and summarizes experts’ views of technologies and safety problems, determined through interviews; and presents experts’ rankings of technology needs to improve school safety, produced during two day-lon ..."
"B. Establish clear roles for members of the response team. ƕ Define clear roles
for the response team. ƕ Articulate clear roles for all involved in postvention. C.
Have a daily debriefing after the death with the crisis response team. ƕ Meet
daily with the school-based crisis team. ƕ Schedule after-school debriefing
sessions for staff. ƕ Plan to debrief postvention team members. ƕ Conduct daily
debriefing. ƕ Debrief the postvention ..."
"As of May 6, 2014: http://lifegard.tripod.com/After_a_Suicide.pdf Morgan, H. G.,
E. M. Jones, and J. H. Owen, “Secondary Prevention of NonFatal Deliberate
SelfHarm: The Green Card Study,” British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 163, July
1993, pp. ... 231–238. Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas, and Gernot Sonneck, “
Assessing the Impact of Media Guidelines for Reporting on Suicides in Austria:
Interrupted Time Series Analysis,” Australian and ..."
"... Elizabeth D'Amico, Claudia Diaz, Christine Eibner, Gail Fisher, Todd C.
Helmus, Benjamin R. Karney, Beau Kilmer, Grant N. Marshall, Laurie T. Martin,
Lisa S. Meredith, Karen N. Metscher, Karen Chan Osilla, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
, Rajeev Ramchand, Jeanne S. Ringel, Terry L. Schell, Jerry M. Sollinger, Mary E.
Vaiana, Kayla M. Williams, Michael R. Yochelson, Invisible Wounds of War:
Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Co ..."
"The U.S. Department of Defense established the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) to provide specialized services for troops suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI). Through interviews with NICoE staff, home station providers, service members treated at the NICoE, and their families, as well as surveys and site visits, RAND evaluated interactions between the NICoE and providers referring patients and implementing treatme ..."
"Tuerk, P. W., M. Yoder, K. J. Ruggiero, D. F. Gros, and R. Acierno, “A Pilot Study
of Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Posttraumatic ... As of July 31, 2014: http://
www.umtrc.org/clientuploads/directory/Resources/AHRQ%20Care%
20Coordination%20Measures%20Atlas.pdf U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, “
Collaborative Care for Depression in the Primary Care ... Harold A. Pincus,
Kenneth B. Wells, and Ronald C Kessler, “Failure and Delay in ..."
"The authors developed a new methodological framework for assessing military personnel and military family needs that fills a gap not currently being met. The framework places personnel and spouse perceptions of problems and needs and the prioritization of those problems and needs at the center of the analysis. This monograph describes the development and testing of a survey tool based on that framework that the Department of Defense and ..."
"Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) is the second phase of a planned four-phase initiative focusing on preventing and reducing the impact of children’s exposure to violence (CEV) and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). The RAND Corporation conducted the national evaluation of the SSPA phase of the initiative in collaboration with the national evaluation team: OJ ..."
"CBITS was developed for use by school-based mental health professionals for any student with symptoms of distress following exposure to trauma. SSET was adapted from CBITS for use by any school personnel with the time and interest to work with students affected by trauma. This toolkit assists social workers, school-based mental health professionals, and school personnel in adapting these interventions for use with youth who are in foste ..."