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NIJ FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Webinar

May 2026

This webinar gave an overview of NIJ’s Graduate Research Fellowship funding opportunity, which seeks to support doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to preventing and controlling crime, protecting the border, enforcing the law, promoting public safety, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice in the United States. The presenters discussed program scope, eligibility, application elements, and frequently asked questions.

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Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Podcast - A Leg Up: NIJ’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program 

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Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Institute of Justice

The NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program supports doctoral students engaged in research that advances NIJ’s mission.

The goal of the GRF program is to increase the pool of...

NIJ FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship

Closing Date

May 27, 2026

Grants.gov Deadline

May 19, 2026

Application JustGrants Deadline

May 27, 2026

Introducing the United States Extremis Crime Database (ECDB)

Journal

Terrorism and Political Violence

Date Published

2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Application of Proteomics to Forensic Human Identification and Disease Characterization Using Hair Shafts

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation, Research (Applied/Empirical)

Forensic Applicability of Femur Subtrochanteric Shape to Ancestry Assessment in Thai and White American Males

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

April 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Nonmetric Cranial Trait Variation and Ancestry Estimation in Asian and Asian-Derived Groups

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

November 2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

School Resource Officers and Exclusionary Discipline in U.S. High Schools: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Journal

Adolescent Research Review

Date Published

June 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Understanding rapport-building in investigative interviews: Does rapport's effect on witness memory and suggestibility depend on the interviewer?

Date Published

2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Thesis/Dissertation

Development and Validation of a Subadult Sex Estimation Method Using Pelvic Metrics

Journal

Forensic Anthropology

Date Published

March 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Evaluation of a 13-loci STR multiplex system for Cannabis sativa genetic identification

Journal

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Date Published

December 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Diversity, abundance, and host specificity of the human skin associated circular and single stranded DNA virome

Date Published

May 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Double-blind photo lineups using actual eyewitnesses: An experimental test of a sequential versus simultaneous lineup procedure.

Journal

Law and Human Behavior

Date Published

2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Novel design and approach to latent fingerprint detection on paper using a 1,2-indanedione-based bi-functional reagent

Journal

Tetrahedron Letters

Date Published

December 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Personnel Economics in Policing

Date Published

2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation, Research (Applied/Empirical)

Diffraction-Aided Wireless Positioning

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Date Published

February 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Risk of Violent Crime Victimization During Major Daily Activities

Journal

Violence and Victims

Date Published

January 2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Neighborhood Context and the Gender Gap in Adolescent Violent Crime

Journal

American Sociological Review

Date Published

2010

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Victimization and Resistance Strategies Among Female Offenders

Journal

Deviant Behavior

Date Published

February 2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The social organization of masculine violence in nighttime leisure scenes

Journal

Criminal Justice Studies

Date Published

June 2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Continuum of Sexual Violence: Women’s Accounts of Victimization in Urban Nightlife

Journal

Feminist Criminology

Date Published

March 2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Impact of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and Reform: A Comparative Analysis

Journal

Justice System Journal

Date Published

2009

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Legislation/Policy Analysis

Delegating Discretion: Quasi Experiments on District Court Decision Making

Date Published

September 2007

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis, Research (Applied/Empirical)

Rapid Determination of Monozygous Twinning with a Microfabricated Capillary Array Electrophoresis Genetic-Analysis Device1

Journal

Clinical Chemistry

Date Published

June 2008

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

GC-MS Analysis of Acylated Derivatives of The Side Chain and Ring Regioisomers of Methylenedioxymethamphetamine

Journal

Journal of Chromatographic Science

Date Published

July 2005

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)