External Events

Join Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) statisticians and RTI International for a webinar update on BJS’s subnational victimization program activities. It will cover findings from BJS’s soon-to-be-released report Criminal Victimization in the 22 Largest U.S. States, 2017–2019, the first release of subnational violent and property crime estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey. Additionally, it […]

This is the first of a series of webinars in April and May about the latest in child sexual abuse research led by the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at Johns Hopkins University. Presenter: Elizabeth Letourneau, PhD,, is a professor in the Department of Mental Health and the director of the […]

This webinar by the Forensic Technology Center of Excellence will begin with contextual information about prosecution case outcomes in sexual assault cases of adult victims. The challenges in tracking the criminal case outcomes will be discussed. Dr. Valentine will introduce the National Institute of Justice Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Practitioner Toolkit as a means of […]

The second in a series of webinars by the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse. Presenter: Rebecca Fix, PhD, is an assistant professor working in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health within the Department of Mental Health, and a faculty affiliate of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child […]

The National Resource Center on Domestic Violence's (NRCDV) Safe Housing Capacity Building Center will present its bi-annual Policy and Research Briefing. Dr. Funmi Ayeni, Director of Research and Evaluation will share study findings from a flexible funding pilot project with the LGBT Center of Central Pennsylvania (PA) Lavon Morris-Grant, Director of Community Engagement, will facilitate […]

The final webinar in a series by the Moore Center on the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse. Presenters: Amanda E. Ruzicka, MA, is a senior research associate at the Department of Mental Health and deputy director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her […]

During this FREE event, the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center (GVRC) at Rutgers will present over 30 gun violence prevention research studies funded by the GVRC. Hear from GVRC leadership, grant awardees, and community leaders as they present evidence-based, equitable policies and programs that will prevent gun violence in our communities. This conference is not looking to engage with simply an […]

Join statisticians from the Bureau of Justice Statistics for a webinar featuring updates on BJS’s efforts to redesign the entire National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) instrument. Presenters will describe additional findings from a large-scale national field test of the NCVS Instrument Redesign, specifically the improvement of victimization measures in the new survey instrument, and the […]

This webinar is intended to provide an introduction to Hope Science and the vast research about how finding, enhancing, and modeling hope can transform clients, employees, and stakeholders in your work. As Dr. Chan Hellman has said, “Hope is the belief that the future will be better than today and that I have the power […]