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NIJ FY 14 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships

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NIJ is seeking proposals for multiple criminal justice research projects involving researcher-practitioner partnerships as well as capturing detailed descriptions of these collaborations. While other NIJ solicitations often encourage researcher-practitioner partnerships, this solicitation directly focuses on supporting criminal justice research and evaluation activities that include a researcher-practitioner partnership component. Within the context of the proposed research or evaluation project, the partnerships can be new or ongoing...

NIJ FY 14 Research on Offender Decision Making and Desistance from Crime

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The study of adult offender decision-making and desistance to commit crime typically has been approached from a rational choice perspective and a life-course perspective, respectively. With this solicitation, NIJ seeks to expand the existing research by examining the process of adult offender decision-making. NIJ requests proposals that either expand the rational choice

model and/or life-course model, use other theories to explain either the choice to...

NIJ FY 14 Optimizing the Use of Video Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes

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NIJ is seeking proposals from research organizations partnered with state, local, or tribal criminal justice agencies for research to identify, realize, and evaluate implementations of video cameras and advanced video analysis software that provide optimum crime control and prevention outcomes. NIJ will be most interested in receiving proposals involving the integration of video technology into policing strategies, most particularly those involving quantitative data analysis methods...