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In the New Mexico Intimate Partner Violence Death Review Team’s 2025 Annual Report, the study looked at 26 cases of intimate partner violence in 2021 that resulted in death. It examines each incident and demographics, such as the relationship between the inmate partner pair and contact with services.

A new study from The University of New Mexico's Institute for Social Research shows Bernalillo County’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) is seeing an increase in its jail population.

A new study from The University of New Mexico’s Institute for Social Research shows nearly half of all people held in jail until their trial are not being convicted in Bernalillo County.

The University of New Mexico's Center for Applied Research and Analysis (CARA) is conducting a 22-year-long randomized controlled trial on a home visiting program within CommonSpirit St. Joseph's Children to study whether it's benefiting New Mexico families or not.

Research from The University of New Mexico shows people are less likely to go back to jail if they are taking methadone treatment or other substance use treatments behind bars.  

New research from the University of New Mexico’s Cradle to Career Institute (CCPI) shows while child care subsidies are helping make care more affordable, some families still struggling to find child care that meets their needs.  

The solution for crime reduction in New Mexico is not a simple mix of crime and punishment. It does not fall on the shoulders of just the courts, just police, or just the jails, to fix. That’s why a statewide, multi-organizational collaboration is...

Traditionally, to study topics like race and social justice, college students have been obligated to declare their field of study in humanities or a social science like sociology or anthropology. But now, thanks to The University of New Mexico Institute for the Study of “Race” and Social Justice, graduate students from across the University are able to take a deeper look at those topics.