The Creation of Muhajirat in America: Social Media As a Platform for Crafting Gender-Specific Interventions for the Domestic Radicalization of Women
Date Published
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Capacity enhancement
Courts Strategic Research Plan 2020-2024
Date Published
Agencies
NIJ
Realignment of Forensic Capacity Enhancement Programs within the Office of Justice Programs
BJA Solicitations Closed
All of the fiscal year 2020 solicitations for the programs discussed in the message and released by the Bureau of Justice Assistance closed.
The Office of Justice Programs has realigned the forensic science capacity enhancement programs to allow components to focus on their strengths and core mission.
Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants Solicitation, Fiscal Year 2020
Closing Date
NIJ actively supports research that involves federally recognized tribes (or tribally-based organizations) on issues of crime and justice in the United States. In doing so, NIJ is committed to ethical and engaged efforts in line with responsible research conduct and federal trust responsibilities. This solicitation seeks applications for funding for planning grants to develop new and innovative criminal and juvenile justice research or evaluation projects that address the challenges of fighting crime and strengthening justice in Indian country and Alaska Native villages. To ensure proposed projects result in tangible and mutually beneficial studies, they must include a new tribal-researcher partnership component.
Longitudinal Patterns of Legal Socialization in First-Generation Immigrants, Second-Generation Immigrants, and Native-Born Serious Youthful Offenders
Date Published
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Data from the DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Grant Program
The goal of NIJ's DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) program is to assist States and units of local government with existing crime laboratories to increase the capacity of publicly funded forensic DNA and DNA database laboratories to process more DNA samples, thereby helping to reduce the number of forensic DNA and DNA database samples awaiting analysis and/or prevent a backlog of forensic and database DNA samples.
Improving National Laboratory Capability and Capacity to Measure Human Exposure to Synthetic Opioids
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Online
Webinar
Open
Northwest Indian Community Development Center- Tribal Law and Policy Institute Research Partnership
2019-75-CX-0016
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$105,000
Implementing NAGPRA: Connecting Medical Examiner and Coroner Offices to Tribal Partners
2019-75-CX-0015
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$114,540
A Descriptive Analysis of Missing and Murdered Native Women and Children in Nebraska, Barriers to Reporting and Investigation, and Recommendations for Improving Access to Justice
2019-75-CX-0014
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$169,264
Tribal Justice, Tribal Court: Strengthening Tribal Justice Systems Using Restorative Approaches
2019-75-CX-0013
Open
Funding First Awarded
2019
$99,969
Strengthening Our Nation's Crime Laboratories
April 2018
As technology improves, demand for analysis of DNA and other forensic evidence to help solve crimes grows. This video describes some of the challenges crime laboratories face in meeting this demand and how National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funding has strengthened crime labs and encouraged innovation in forensic techniques.
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Strengthening Our Nation's Crime Laboratories
April 2018
As technology improves, demand for analysis of DNA and other forensic evidence to help solve crimes grows. This video describes some of the challenges crime laboratories face in meeting this demand and how National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funding has strengthened crime labs and encouraged innovation in forensic techniques.
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Building Trust Inside and Out The Challenge of Legitimacy Facing Police Leaders
February 2014
Series
In the face of budget cuts, changing workforce demands, new varieties of crime and new technologies, how should police executives manage officers and other personnel and still ensure that organizational goals are being met?
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The Evaluation of NIJ by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences: NIJ's Response
June 2011
The National Academies conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the National Institute of Justice. This panel provides an overview of the evaluation and NIJ's response to it. NIJ has accepted many of the recommendations in the NRC report, and you will learn what the agency is doing to implement them. A few of the recommendations were challenging and created considerable debate within NIJ. Plans to address these thorny issues also are discussed.
Director’s Corner: Improved Officer Safety in 2017 — and Beyond
American law enforcement officers put their lives on the line to keep their communities safe, and sometimes they pay the ultimate price. Every year, officers are killed in the line of duty. 2017 saw a decrease of more than 10 percent in line-of-duty deaths, from 143 in 2016 to 128 last year, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
The Impact of National Institute of Justice’s Solving Cold Cases with DNA Program
July 2019
Practitioners from across the criminal justice system speak to the impact of NIJ's Solving Cold Cases with DNA grant program.
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Backlogs and Their Impact on the Criminal Justice System
June 2010
Evidence backlogs have been known to be an issue in crime laboratories. A recent study published by NIJ has shown that backlogs of untested evidence are also an issue in law enforcement evidence storage. This panel will discuss the issues and present preliminary findings from a study of the Los Angeles Police Department's and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's experience with clearing out a large backlog of unanalyzed rape kits.
Backlogs and Their Impact on the Criminal Justice System
June 2010
Evidence backlogs have been known to be an issue in crime laboratories. A recent study published by NIJ has shown that backlogs of untested evidence are also an issue in law enforcement evidence storage. This panel will discuss the issues and present preliminary findings from a study of the Los Angeles Police Department's and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's experience with clearing out a large backlog of unanalyzed rape kits.
Chicago Ceasefire
June 2009
CeaseFire is an evidence-based, data-driven intervention designed to stop shootings and killings in high-incidence neighborhoods by directly intervening with those who are most likely to be involved in a shooting and by building support for alternatives to violence in those neighborhoods. Panel members will share their experiences “on the ground” mediating conflicts and working one-on-one with high-risk individuals.
NIJs Role in the Strategy to Combat Heroin and Other Opioids: 2018 Update
Date Published
Agencies
NIJ
Highly Efficient Sperm Cell Separation From Sexual Assault Samples for DNA Analysis Using Novel Polymer Filter Technology
Date Published
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program- FORMULA, FY 2019
Closing Date
Notice
In fiscal 2020, all state and local forensic capacity enhancement programs previously managed by NIJ moved to the Bureau of Justice Assistance.
The awards made under this solicitation now are being managed by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. To see the complete list of awards, visit the Bureau of Justice Assistance.