A Multi-Method Genetic, Craniometric, and Isotopic Approach to Estimating Geographic Origin of Unidentified Latinx Remains
15PNIJ-24-GG-01578-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$180,000
Fellowship Programs
Procedural and Structural Justice Through Causal Understanding, Component Decoupling, and Relation Characterization
15PNIJ-24-GG-01565-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$60,000
How to Free a Butterfly: The Impact of Fair Chance Housing Ordinances on the Housing Outcome of System-Impacted Black Individuals
15PNIJ-24-GG-01575-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$47,052
Defining the Properties of Osseointegrated and Ingrowth Bone Around Orthopedic Medical Devices and Their Effect on Fracture Risk in Elderly Populations: A Forensic Anthropological Perspective
15PNIJ-24-GG-01583-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$180,000
Leisure Risk for Youth on Probation: How it Relates to Recidivism and How Probation Officers Address it in Case Planning
15PNIJ-24-GG-01574-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$86,385
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowships 2024-25
15PNIJ-24-GG-01170-RESS
Open
Funding First Awarded
2024
$315,000
Closing Cases Using Gunshot Residue
May 2024
Series
Not every crime scene will have definitive evidence, such as DNA, to link an individual to a crime. In those cases, law enforcement relies on other evidence to build the burden of proof. NIJ graduate research fellow Dr. Shelby Khandasammy developed a tool to analyze organic gunshot residue and distinguish between different firearms calibers and manufacturers. She joins Marie Garcia, office director for the Office of Criminal Justice Systems at NIJ, to talk about her work and experience as a research fellow.
Transcript
Audio file
Webinar Transcript: FY 2024 NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Deadline notice
The deadline to submit an application under the solicitation discussed below has passed.
NIJ held a webinar on February 14, 2024, gave an overview of NIJ’s Graduate Research Fellowship opportunity, which invites applications for doctoral dissertation research that is relevant to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration...
An Admixture Approach to Trihybrid Ancestry Variation in the Philippines With Implications for Forensic Anthropology
NCJ Number
255686
Journal
Date Published
2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
School Transitions as a Turning Point for Gang Status
NCJ Number
255243
Journal
Date Published
2017
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
IBCFAP: Intra-Body Communications Five-Layers Arm Phantom Model
NCJ Number
254330
Journal
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
Spatial Distributions of Furan and 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural in Unroasted and Roasted Coffea Arabica Beans
NCJ Number
254253
Journal
Date Published
May 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
Credentialing Decisions and Criminal Records: A Narrative Approach
NCJ Number
254231
Journal
Date Published
2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
Natural Surveillance Characteristics of Building Openings and Relationship to Residential Burglary
NCJ Number
254145
Journal
Date Published
January 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
Reconsidering Osteoarthritis as a Skeletal Indicator of Age at Death
NCJ Number
254107
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
Validation of the Acetabulum As a Skeletal Indicator of Age at Death in Modern European-Americans
NCJ Number
254106
Journal
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
How Formerly Incarcerated Women Confront the Limits of Caring and the Burdens of Control Amid California's Carceral Realignment
NCJ Number
254101
Journal
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
Conceptualizing the Personal Touch Experiential Knowledge and Gendered Strategies in Community Supervision Work
NCJ Number
254100
Date Published
May 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
A Postconviction Mentality: Prosecutorial Assistance in Exoneration Cases
NCJ Number
254095
Journal
Date Published
2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
In Vitro Isolation of Small-Molecule-Binding Aptamers With Intrinsic Dye-Displacement Functionality
NCJ Number
253453
Journal
Date Published
2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Publication Link
Work as Foraging: A Smartphone Study of Job Search and Employment after Prison
NCJ Number
253422
Journal
Date Published
2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
A Multidimensional Approach to Ascertaining Individual Differentiation and Consistency in Serial Sexual Assault: Is It Time to Redefine and Refine?
NCJ Number
253410
Date Published
2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
Molar Crenulation Trait Definition and Variation in Modern Human Populations
NCJ Number
253364
Date Published
May 2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
Prediction of Active Site and Distal Residues in E.coli DNA Polymerase III alpha Polymerase Activity
NCJ Number
253357
Journal
Date Published
2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link
Physical Multi-Layer Phantoms for Intra-Body Communications
NCJ Number
253286
Journal
Date Published
2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Publication Link