NIJ FY24 Research on School-Based Hate Crimes

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.

Proposed research designs may include bias-motivated incidents that do not constitute criminal offenses, such as bias-motivated harassment, identity-based bullying, and incidents of hate words or symbols written in schools. Additionally, school-based hate crimes may include incidents that occurred outside of the school setting (e.g., online incidents); however, applicants must demonstrate the relevance of the incidents to a school setting (e.g., campus climate).