Community relations
NIJ FY24 Measurement of Community Perceptions
Closing Date
Grants.gov Deadline
Application JustGrants Deadline
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for research on, and demonstration projects of, improved approaches to measuring community perceptions of policing and public safety. Specifically, NIJ seeks to fund research that develops and tests innovative methods to provide representative samples that are accurate across microgeographic areas, cost-effective, able to be implemented frequently, and scalable for use in municipalities of various sizes.
Social Bonds and Change During Incarceration: Testing a Missing Link in the Reentry Research
Date Published
August 2011
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Relations between youths’ community violence exposure and their physical aggression: The protective role of adults
Date Published
2023
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Occupational prestige and job satisfaction in high-stress public safety work
Date Published
2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
NIJ Journal Issue No. 231
Date Published
August 1996
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ
Innovations in Measuring Community Perceptions Challenge
Closing Date
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.
Community Responses to Serial Murder: A Guide for Law Enforcement
Date Published
1994
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
NIJ
Local Safety Councils in Slovenia--A Story on Attempts to Make Local Communities Responsible for Solving Crime and Safety Problems (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 734-744, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-207973)
Date Published
September 2004
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ
Legal Optimism: Restoring Trust in the Criminal Justice System Through Procedural Justice, Positive Psychology and Just Culture Event Reviews
Date Published
September 2018
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Issue Overview
Agencies
NIJ
Public cooperation and the police: Do calls-for-service increase after homicides?
Date Published
2021
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Enhancing Procedural Justness of Encounters Through Substantiation (EPJETS): The Atlantic County Randomized Controlled Trial.
15PNIJ-21-GG-02718-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2021
$702,956
Improving investigations and community relations through the training of evidence-based interviewing skills in frontline officers
15PNIJ-21-GG-02716-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2021
$497,785
Police Legitimacy and Disrupting Overt Drug Markets
Date Published
2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
CSSI Comprehensive School Safety Projects - Breakout Session, NIJ Virtual Conference on School Safety
February 2021
On February 16-18, 2021, the National Institute of Justice hosted the Virtual Conference on School Safety: Bridging Research to Practice to Safeguard Our Schools. This video includes the following presentations:
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Research and Evaluation on Policing, Fiscal Year 2021
Closing Date
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects that address (1) re-allocation of resources and police operations and functions; (2) police use of force and de-escalations tactics and strategies; and (3) tactics and strategies that strengthen police-community relationships. These contemporary issues in policing are also reflected in the strategic priorities and objectives identified in NIJ’s Policing Strategic Research Plan, 2017-2022. Among...
Tweeting Your Way to Better Community Relations
Date Published
July 2013
Publication Type
Best Practice/State-of-the-Art Review
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Conflicting Values in Community Policing
Date Published
2001
Publication Type
Case Study
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Applying Community Tapestry Data to Public Safety
Date Published
December 2009
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ
Policing in Public Housing: Using Calls for Service To Examine Incident-Based Workload in the Philadelphia Housing Authority
Date Published
1998
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Crime Prevention Through Neighborhood Revitalization: Does Practice Reflect Theory?
Date Published
1996
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Improving Responses to Citizens Questions about Community Safety
Date Published
December 2009
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research),
Issue Overview
Agencies
NIJ
Prison Escapes and Community Consequences: Results of a Case Study
Date Published
1990
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Directly Intervene or Call the Authorities?: A Study of Forms of Neighborhood Social Control Within a Social Disorganization Framework
Date Published
February 2007
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Program Provides a Safe Place To Report Hate Crimes
Date Published
November 2019
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored