Gangs
National Youth Gang Survey
2020-JX-FX-K007
Awarded, but not yet accepted
Funding First Awarded
2020
$996,640
Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective
2020-75-CX-0009
Awarded, but not yet accepted
Funding First Awarded
2020
$435,020
National Youth Gang Survey, Fiscal Year 2020
Closing Date
In collaboration with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), NIJ seeks proposals for funding to conduct a study of youth gangs. The award recipient will be expected to develop, test, and administer a national data collection from law enforcement agencies to produce accurate and reliable national estimates of, and information about youth gangs, and gang-related criminal activities and law enforcement approaches to dealing with those activities.
Functional Family Therapy-Gangs: Adapting an Evidence-Based Program To Reduce Gang Involvement
Date Published
Agencies
NIJ
Notes From the Field: Using Evidence-Based Policing to Combat Violent Crime
Date Published
Agencies
NIJ
NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Crime Control and Prevention: Desistance from Gangs and Gang Related Crime
Closing Date
NIJ is seeking applications to conduct research on selected crime control and prevention topics. This is a directed solicitation that seeks proposals to examine topics relevant to State, local, and/or tribal criminal and juvenile justice policy and practice.
The specific focus area under this solicitation for FY 2011 is desistance from gangs and gang related Crime
Cut from the Same Cloth? A Comparative Study of Domestic Extremists and Gang Members in the United States
Date Published
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Consequences of Incarceration for Gang Membership: A Longitudinal Study of Serious Offenders in Philadelphia and Phoenix
Date Published
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
NIJ Day at American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting
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San Francisco, Calif.
San Francisco, CA
Conference
Open
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adolescent Gang Membership: Utilizing Latent Class Analysis to Understand the Relationship
2019-R2-CX-0009
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$50,000
A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Scenarios and Solutions Gang Prevention Program
2019-R2-CX-0014
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$550,610
Research and Evaluation on Gangs and Gang Violence NIJ-2019-15270
2019-R2-CX-0015
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$650,000
A Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs
Date Published
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Opening the Black Box of NIBIN
July 2014
Series
Bill King discusses the operations of the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN), a program through which firearms examiners at state and local crime laboratories compare tool marks on fired bullets or cartridges found at a crime scene to digitized images of ballistic evidence in a nationwide database.
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Don't Jump the Shark: Understanding Deterrence and Legitimacy in the Architecture of Law Enforcement
November 2010
Series
Deterrence theory dominates the American understanding of how to regulate criminal behavior but social psychologists' research shows that people comply for reasons that have nothing to do with fear of punishment; they have to do with values, fair procedures and how people connect with one another. Professor Meares discussed the relevance of social psychologists' emerging theory to legal theory and practice and how deterrence and emerging social psychology theories intertwine.
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Report on Reducing Gun Violence
Date Published
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Homicide in the United States
June 2009
The 2009 NIJ Conference kicked off with a blue-ribbon panel of leaders with expertise in urban issues as they relate to homicide. These experts will discuss promising approaches that have resulted in reduced violence and community empowerment.
Homicide in the United States
June 2009
The 2009 NIJ Conference kicked off with a blue-ribbon panel of leaders with expertise in urban issues as they relate to homicide. These experts will discuss promising approaches that have resulted in reduced violence and community empowerment.
Gang Membership Prevention
June 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIJ collaborated on a book that focuses on promising principles for gang membership prevention. This NIJ Conference Panel discusses the risk and protective factors that influence gang membership as well as efforts to reduce such factors. Panelists also explored the direction of gang research for the future.
Gang Membership Prevention
June 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIJ collaborated on a book that focuses on promising principles for gang membership prevention. This NIJ Conference Panel discusses the risk and protective factors that influence gang membership as well as efforts to reduce such factors. Panelists also explored the direction of gang research for the future.
Gang Membership Prevention
June 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NIJ collaborated on a book that focuses on promising principles for gang membership prevention. This NIJ Conference Panel discusses the risk and protective factors that influence gang membership as well as efforts to reduce such factors. Panelists also explored the direction of gang research for the future.