2012-02-13T16:25:02Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/pubs/online/public-safety.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120001.html 2012-02-01T12:00:00.000-05:00 2012-02-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

Increases in reading skills and numeracy skills substantially increase the odds that an individual will quit smoking.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR988.html 2012-01-24T12:30:00.000-05:00 2012-01-24T12:30:00.000-05:00

The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes, for fiscal year 2009–2010, Corrections Standards Authority–mandated outcome measures from each of the programs, as well as county-determined supplemental outcomes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1134z2.html 2012-01-18T09:15:00.000-05:00 2012-01-18T09:15:00.000-05:00

In 2006, the Communities Foundation of Texas allocated $10 million to the Dallas Police Department to establish the W. W. Caruth Jr. Police Institute. An evaluation of the institute's first course considered participants' opinions of the course's impact on their approach to their jobs, their relationships with supervisors and subordinates, and their sense of solidarity with their coworkers.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1134z1.html 2012-01-18T09:15:00.000-05:00 2012-01-18T09:15:00.000-05:00

In 2006, the Communities Foundation of Texas allocated $5 million to the Dallas Police Department to acquire and install digital video recorders and laptop computers in patrol cars, helping the department modernize its operations. An evaluation of the initiative considered the devices' uses and frequency of use by officers, officers' opinions of the devices, and trends in the proportion of citizen complaints that led to disciplinary action.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR675z1.html 2012-01-13T13:45:00.000-05:00 2012-01-13T13:45:00.000-05:00

Japanese translation of <em>Support for Students Exposed to Trauma</em>, including a series of teacher- or school counselor–led lessons aimed at reducing distress for middle school students who have been exposed to a traumatic life event. The program includes skill-building techniques geared toward changing maladaptive thoughts and promoting positive behaviors.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120005.html 2012-01-01T12:00:00.000-05:00 2012-01-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

How legalizing marijuana would affect consumption and tax revenues will depend on many design choices including tax level, incentives for a continued black market, whether advertising is restricted, and how the regulatory system is designed and adjusted.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/corporate_pubs/CP22-2011-12.html 2012-01-13T17:00:00.000-05:00 2012-01-13T17:00:00.000-05:00

Stories discuss world demographic trends, Afghan peace prospects, U.S. health care spending, California prisoner reentry, Latin American inequalities, global health, veterans' mental health, highway investments, teacher bonuses, and charter schools.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR991-1.html 2012-01-04T11:00:00.000-05:00 2012-01-04T11:00:00.000-05:00

Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) is the second phase of a community-based initiative focused on developing and fielding interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence. This report shares the results of SSPA, which was intended to implement and evaluate promising and evidence-based programs in 15 program sites across the country.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP342.html 2011-12-20T14:00:00.000-05:00 2011-12-20T14:00:00.000-05:00

It has become clear that Stuxnet-like worms pose a serious threat even to critical U.S. infrastructure and computer systems that are not connected to the Internet. However, defending against such attacks involves complex technological and legal issues. In particular, at the federal level, different organizations have different responsibilities and levels of authority when it comes to investigating or defending against intrusions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR870.html 2011-12-16T18:00:00.000-05:00 2011-12-16T18:00:00.000-05:00

Describes the results of a study to examine the effect of defense counsel on outcomes in murder prosecutions in Philadelphia.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9637.html 2011-12-14T15:00:00.000-05:00 2011-12-14T15:00:00.000-05:00

RAND Europe has evaluated the world's first Social Impact Bond (SIB), an innovative payment-by-results mechanism to fund public services which aims to reduce reoffending by prisoners. This report presents the initial findings of the evaluation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9634.html 2011-12-07T10:30:00.000-05:00 2011-12-07T10:30:00.000-05:00

Examines the health care needs of released California prisoners, communities most affected by reentry, safety net capacity, and provider experiences with ex-prisoners, given California's Public Safety Realignment Plan and federal health care reform.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100283.html 2011-12-01T12:00:00.000-05:00 2011-12-01T12:00:00.000-05:00

A wide range of products and services exist to help patients convey personal health information. Health care providers should be familiar with their features, so they can access the information in a disaster or emergency.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100188.html 2011-12-01T00:00:00.000-05:00 2011-12-01T00:00:00.000-05:00

This analysis examines smoking behaviors across sexual orientation groups by describing how same- and opposite-sex romantic attraction, and changes in romantic attraction, are associated with trajectories of smoking over six years.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1165.html 2011-11-16T00:01:00.000-05:00 2011-11-16T00:01:00.000-05:00

Examines the health care needs of newly released California prisoners; the communities most affected by reentry and the health care safety net of those communities; the critical roles that health care providers, other social services, and family members play in successful reentry; and the effects of reentry on the children and families of incarcerated individuals. Recommends how to improve access for this population in the current fiscal environment.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR886.html 2011-11-10T11:59:00.000-05:00 2011-11-10T11:59:00.000-05:00

Investigates the impact of small and moderate disasters on childhood morbidity, physical growth, and immunizations by combining household data from the Indian National Family and Health Survey with an international database of natural disasters.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1166.html 2011-11-04T14:45:00.000-04:00 2011-11-04T14:45:00.000-04:00

This report identifies early lessons from the development and implementation of the world's first Social Impact Bond, which is being piloted by the UK Ministry of Justice and aims to provide interventions to reduce reoffending.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100211.html 2011-11-01T00:00:00.000-04:00 2011-11-01T00:00:00.000-04:00

Multiple dimensions of harm need to be displayed to inform human judgments of what drugs should be scheduled; recent efforts ignores drug interactions and mix aggregate and individual harms inappropriately.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR948.html 2011-10-26T09:00:00.000-04:00 2011-10-26T09:00:00.000-04:00

This report discusses the status of cold-case investigations in the United States and examines factors associated with successful ones, reporting a survey of law enforcement agencies about their current practices for investigating cold cases and an analysis of four agencies' files.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1125.html 2011-10-21T08:00:00.000-04:00 2011-10-21T08:00:00.000-04:00

A RAND team conducted a Delphi expert elicitation exercise, the results of which offer an assessment of the contemporary security situation in Mexico through the lens of existing RAND research on urban instability and unrest, historical insurgencies, and defense-sector reform. Assessment scorecards from these projects were used to obtain input from the expert panel and to guide the resulting discussion.