Addresses criminal justice research & evaluation in the first 2 years of the 1994 Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act (Crime Act). It reports on the activities of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in conducting research & evaluation under the Crime Act. Includes: research under the Crime Act; policing; sentencing & corrections; violence against women; drug courts; science & technology; other NIJ Crime Act research; statutory authority under the Crime Act for criminal justice research & evaluation; developing the Crime Act research agenda: strategic planning; & awards made by the NIJ under the Crime Act 1995-1996. Also includes a 17-page Public Policy Report, The Impact of ÔThree Strikes & You're Out' Laws: What Have We Learned?Ó; & an 11-page report by The Sentencing Project, Aging Behind Bars: ÔThree Strikes' Seven Years LaterÓ (2001).