Novel Psychoactive Substance Discovery, Education, and Reporting Institute
15PNIJ-24-GK-00981-COAP
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$2,000,000
Drug trafficking
Exploring the Intersection of Human Trafficking, Drug Trafficking, and Other Criminal Activity in the United States
15PNIJ-24-GG-01904-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$649,895
Exploring the Nexus of Human Trafficking and Drug Trafficking in a Border County
15PNIJ-24-GG-01907-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$649,732
NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime: Money Laundering, Firearms, and Human Trafficking
Closing Date
Grants.gov Deadline
Application JustGrants Deadline
With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for funding rigorous applied research on drugs and crime to inform the development of evidence-based tools, practices, and policies for state, tribal, and local law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies that address drug trafficking, drug markets, and drug-related violence. The goals of this solicitation are to better understand drug crime organizations and networks and to develop effective approaches...
Implementation of NPS Discovery – An Early Warning Systems for Novel Drug Intelligence, Surveillance, Monitoring, Response, and Forecasting using Drug Materials and Toxicology Populations in the US
15PNIJ-22-GG-04434-MUMU
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2023
$492,810
Understanding the Scope and Nature of Forced Criminality in the United States
15PNIJ-23-GG-01927-HT
Open
Funding First Awarded
2023
$997,729
To Catch a Drug
October 2022
Series
NIJ communications assistant Josh Mondoro explores novel psychoactive substances with NIJ scientist Frances Scott. She explains what NPSs are, current research in the field, and the practical impact of this research for law enforcement and policymakers.
Implementation of NPS Discovery – An Early Warning Systems for Novel Drug Intelligence, Surveillance, Monitoring, Response, and Forecasting using Drug Materials and Toxicology Populations in the US
15PNIJ-22-GG-04434-MUMU
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2022
$485,938
Disrupting Human Trafficking Networks through Mathematical Modeling: Addressing Replacement Effects and Uncertain Information
2020-R2-CX-0022
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2020
$100,000
Rapid In-Field Analysis of Illicit Substances in Unknown Powders and Aerosols
2020-R2-CX-0036
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2020
$150,000
Advances in Investigative Techniques: Drug Monitoring Programs
March 2020
Lieutenant Piotrowski, New Jersey State Police, discusses drug monitoring programs. With this program, his agency collects multiple drug-related data sets to ultimately have an impact on mitigating the impact of drugs in his community. Topics include the benefits of implementing a drug monitoring program, some of the outcomes of the program, and how federal funding can help an agency start such a program.
Lieutenant Piotrowski participated in an NIJ Day panel at the 2019 International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference and Expo.
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Prevalence of Fentanyl and Its Analogues in a Court-Ordered Mandatory Drug Testing Population
2019-R2-CX-0017
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$239,196
Fast On-site Screening of Seized Drugs by Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Tools: Identification of Fentanyl and Novel Psychoactive Substances
2019-DU-BX-0030
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2019
$267,438
Third Party Policing: A Randomized Field Trial to Assess Drug Crime Reduction and Police-Hotel Partnerships in Anne Arundel County, MD
2019-R2-CX-0026
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2019
$597,452
Forensic Application of Pollen DNA Barcoding
2019-R2-CX-0039
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$150,000
Using Social Network and Spatial Analysis to Understand and Address Fentanyl Distribution Networks in Americas Largest Port City
2019-R2-CX-0020
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$995,490
Detecting Fentanyl and Major Players in Darknet Drug Markets by Analyzing Drug Networks and Developing a Threat Assessment Tool
2019-R2-CX-0018
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$598,637
What You Can't Buy, Can't Kill You
2019-R2-CX-0019
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2019
$641,016
Addiction, the Brain, and Evidence-Based Treatment
March 2012
Series
The criminal justice system encounters and supervises a large number of drug abusing persons. Punishment alone is a futile and ineffective response to the problem of drug abuse. Addiction is a chronic brain disease with a strong genetic component that in most instances requires treatment. Involvement in the criminal justice system provides a unique opportunity to treat drug abuse disorders and related health conditions, thereby improving public health and safety.
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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.
International Organized Crime: Recent Developments in Policy and Research
June 2010
Since 2008, DOJ has been reviewing its policies and programs on international organized crime, with the goal of strengthening law enforcement's response to this threat. In this NIJ Conference Panel, the speakers will explore how DOJ and other U.S. government agencies are responding to it. Attendees will learn more about the Attorney General's Organized Crime Council, the International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center, and the recent National Intelligence Estimate on International Organized Crime.
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.
What Is Research and Evaluation Evidence and How Can We Use It?
June 2010
This NIJ Conference Panel will explore the development and use of evidence-based policies, programs and technologies to improve effectiveness and efficiencies related to government. Through casual observation, practices and programs may appear to be effective, but under closer scrutiny the results may look much different.
Crime File: Drugs - Youth Gangs
January 1990
1990
This Crime File video presents the portrayal of the nature and activities of juvenile gangs in Los Angeles; followed by a panel discussion of gang involvement in drug trafficking, sociological explanations of gangs, and strategies for countering gangs.
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Crime File: Drug Trafficking
January 1986
In this Crime File video, James Q. Wilson moderates a panel of three (Mark Kleiman, Harvard University Research Fellow; Mark Moore, Harvard University Professor; and John Lawn, Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency), this team discusses Federal and local enforcement strategies against drug trafficking.
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