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Expired Funding Opportunities

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NIJ FY24 Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime

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With this solicitation, NIJ, in collaboration with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), seeks proposals for funding to conduct an expansion or extension of one or more ongoing/existing longitudinal research studies that focus on delinquency and crime throughout the life-course. Longitudinal studies support interdisciplinary research on the emergence, persistence, and desistance of delinquency and criminal offending. This research will inform the design of more effective strategies for prevention and intervention in delinquent and criminal behavioral trajectories.

NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship

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The Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program provides grants to accredited academic institutions to support outstanding doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to criminal or juvenile justice. Applicant academic institutions are eligible to apply only if 1) the student is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the sciences or engineering; 2) the student’s proposed dissertation research has demonstrable relevance to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice, in the United States.

NIJ FY24 Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding for rigorous research and evaluation projects in four topical areas: (1) evaluation of programs that seek to prevent, intervene in, or respond to the abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of older adults; (2) evaluation of prevention and education programs related to financial fraud and exploitation of older adults (including the efficacy of scam prevention messaging campaigns); (3) research on individuals who abuse (either financially, physically, sexually, and/or emotionally) or neglect older adults; and (4) forensic research involving the development of radiographic evidence and bioinformatic approaches relevant to the physical abuse of older adults.

NIJ FY24 Research on School-Based Hate Crimes

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals from accredited research universities to conduct a study of hate crimes in the K-12 education system to understand the scope, characteristics, and outcomes of these incidents.

NIJ FY24 National Juvenile Court Data Archive

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With this solicitation, NIJ, in collaboration with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), seeks applications to support the National Juvenile Court Data Archive, which collects, maintains, and makes accessible the nation’s primary source of detailed information on juvenile court case processing of delinquency and status offense cases.

NIJ FY24 Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism Research Center of Excellence

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals to establish a Center of Excellence for research and evaluation on the domestic radicalization to violent extremism phenomenon. This Center will perform four core functions: 1) Conduct (and/or support through multiple sub-awards) rigorous research, evaluation, and demonstration projects targeted toward developing a better understanding of the phenomenon and advancing evidence-based strategies for effective intervention and prevention. 2) Assess the research needs of the field. 3) Translate and disseminate knowledge by developing a suite of evidence-driven best practices and guidelines for immediate reference by practitioners. 4) Supporting training, education and professional development of practitioners engaged in extremism prevention and intervention using that suite of evidence-driven best practices and guidelines.

NIJ FY24 Research on Law Enforcement Responses to Opioid Overdoses

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals from accredited research universities to study law enforcement’s responses to opioid overdoses. The study shall take into account law enforcement’s responses with linked community agencies and also include specific practices utilized to ensure the well-being, assessment, and protection of children in these situations. Linked community agencies may include public and private agencies that do or could have a role in reducing or responding to opioid misuse and overdoses. Applications from other than accredited research universities will not be considered.

NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2023

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Awards made under this funding opportunity are either made non-competitively or are the result of an administrative funding adjustment.

NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Support Activities under Section 13(d) of Executive Order 14074

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NIJ seeks applications for funding to study law enforcement use of probabilistic genotyping, forensic DNA phenotyping, and forensic investigative genetic genealogy technologies and law enforcement use of person-based predictive policing approaches as directed by Section 13(d) in Executive Order 14074 “Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety.” T

NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - University of Texas at Austin Developing More Effective Services and Programs for Victims of Mass Shootings

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This solicitation provides funds to the University of Texas at Austin to complete the third phase of a program of research to identify and address the unfulfilled victim services and program needs of the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting and to apply the knowledge gained to better inform responses by officials in other communities to similar incidents in the future.

NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in the Criminal Justice System

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NIJ is seeking an application for funding to support the project— Expanding Mental Health Diversion Opportunities: A Prospective Evaluation of the Los Angeles County Intake Booking Diversion Program. This project seeks to assess the development and implementation of the Intake Booking Diversion program (IBD) for individuals presenting with mental illness.

NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply – Funding Support for the Operations of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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NIJ seeks applications to support the operations of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and its work to develop knowledge to inform public policy interventions that: support the fair and impartial administration of  justice for all Americans, restore trust in the Justice System, and support the reduction of crime and recidivism.

NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Correctional Culture and Climate

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NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects that inform our understanding of the impact of culture and climate on the ability of correctional agencies to achieve their missions—most fundamentally to maintain a safe, humane and secure environment for both staff and incarcerated individuals in the institutions that they manage; to recruit and retain staff; and to promote and sustain needed changes in their organizational cultures, operations, and programs to better achieve their missions.

NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime

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NIJ is seeking an application for funding to support the project—Life Course and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal Justice Involvement: Identifying Risks, the Search for Resilience, and the Impact of Rise in Opioid Misuse and the COVID-19 Pandemic. This project seeks to extend the existing data collection for the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS) and its intergenerational extension, the Rochester Intergenerational Study (RIGS). 

Innovations in Measuring Community Perceptions Challenge

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NIJ has launched an open competition to develop new methods for capturing community perceptions of police and public safety that are representative, cost effective, accurate across microgeographies, and capable of being administered frequently.

NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply – Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development: Social Development Sub-study (ABCD: SD)

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NIJ is seeking an application for a sub-study that incorporates measures of delinquency and victimization at five sites of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. This program furthers the Department’s mission to provide objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and criminal justice, particularly at the State and local levels.

NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks rigorous, applied research and evaluation projects examining the impact of: (1) police accountability practices; (2) the shifting and sharing of police functions; (3) police training; and (4) police officer health and wellness programs on an array of police performance outcomes (e.g., officer intervening and reporting of misconduct, excessive or unnecessary use of force, civilian complaints, officer and civilian injuries, police accountability and transparency, public trust and confidence in the police, and quality of police-community relationships). Applicants are encouraged to review NIJ’s policing portfolio and previous policing and safety, health and wellness research awards funded by NIJ.

NIJ FY23 Criminal Justice Technology Testing and Evaluation Center

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals to host a Criminal Justice Technology Testing and Evaluation Center. The Center will provide testing, evaluation, and other activities to support the safety, effectiveness, efficiency, and efficacy of technologies in use or adaptable by criminal justice and juvenile justice communities. The Center will inform NIJ’s research and development efforts as well as NIJ’s stakeholders, including criminal justice practitioners, policymakers, researchers, federal partners, and private industry, by: