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NIJ FY 09 Advancing Criminal Justice Policy, Practice, and Technology

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NIJ seeks applications for funding of specific innovative, high-payoff projects and activities fostering the adoption into practice of new, cutting-edge policy, practice, and/or technology related to: courts, crime and crime prevention, drugs and crime, forensic sciences, law enforcement, relevant technology and tools, and victims and victimization. 

NIJ FY09 Building and Enhancing Research Researcher-Practitioner/Policymaker Partnerships

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NIJ is seeking applications for funding to support criminal justice researcher-practitioner collaborations. Such partnerships have frequently been encouraged in solicitations for research. However, there is a need for intentional activities that effectively use lessons learned from previous partnerships to provide opportunities for creating, enhancing, and improving criminal justice researcher-practitioner partnerships. This solicitation is aimed at developing existing partnerships, establishing new partnerships, and capturing significant lessons...

NIJ FY 09 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program

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NIJ is seeking applications for funding under the fiscal year 2009 Convicted Offender and/or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program. This program furthers the Department's mission by offering an opportunity for States with existing laboratories that conduct analysis of convicted offender and/or arrestee DNA samples collected by States pursuant to applicable law for databasing purposes ("DNA database samples") to reduce their backlog of such samples through...

NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research

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NIJ is seeking applications for funding of social and behavioral research on, and evaluations related to, crime and justice topics relevant to State and/or local criminal and juvenile justice policy and practice. Although most crime and justice topics relevant to policymakers and practitioners are eligible for consideration, NIJ has identified the following priority areas: Predicting Crime, Emerging Crime, Human Trafficking, Re-entry, Preventing Crime Related to...

NIJ FY 09 Technology Research and Development

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NIJ seeks applications for research and development leading to the adoption into practice by law enforcement and corrections agencies of technologies and devices providing improved means to confirm and fix an individual's identity, improved situational awareness, improved means to locate and track cooperative or noncooperative individuals, improved data analysis tools, and improved means to detect contraband.

NIJ FY 09 ORE Evaluation of a Demonstration Program: Drug Testing, Certain and Swift Sanctions and Treatment Referral for Chronic Drug Users Under Community Supervision

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NIJ is seeking proposals for research to evaluate the effectiveness of a demonstration program that includes a drug-testing, sanctions, and treatment protocol for chronic drug users under criminal justice supervision in the community. The basic principles of the program must include: (1) frequent drug testing; (2) certain, swift, and graduated sanctions for failed tests; and (3) access to residential treatment, as appropriate. The purpose of...