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NIJ FY24 Field-Initiated Action Research Partnerships

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks research partnership proposals that meet the needs and missions of local justice and service provider entities — including police, corrections, courts, victim services, forensic science service providers, and community safety and adult and juvenile justice entities — and the communities they serve. These partnerships should apply a data-driven, problem-solving approach to challenges prioritized by agency partners; identify actionable and measurable...

NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation on Youth Justice Topics

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With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects that inform policy and practice in the field of youth justice and delinquency prevention. Specifically, this solicitation seeks proposals for studies that advance knowledge and understanding in the following two categories: 1. Youth Justice Reinvestment Studies which evaluate the effectiveness, including cost-effectiveness, of youth justice system reforms and subsequent reinvestments into programs that...

NIJ FY24 Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime

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With this solicitation, NIJ, in collaboration with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), seeks proposals for funding to conduct an expansion or extension of one or more ongoing/existing longitudinal research studies that focus on delinquency and crime throughout the life-course. Longitudinal studies support interdisciplinary research on the emergence, persistence, and desistance of delinquency and criminal offending. This research will inform the design...

NIJ FY24 National Juvenile Court Data Archive

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With this solicitation, NIJ, in collaboration with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), seeks applications to support the National Juvenile Court Data Archive, which collects, maintains, and makes accessible the nation’s primary source of detailed information on juvenile court case processing of delinquency and status offense cases.

Webinar: NIJ Research Assistantship Program Informational Webinar

This recorded webinar, originally held September 28, 2023, provides information on NIJ’s Research Assistantship Program, which offers highly qualified doctoral students the opportunity to bring their expertise to NIJ to work across offices and program areas to obtain a practical and applied research experience. The program is a research focused professional development opportunity for doctoral students from all academic disciplines. NIJ...

NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply – Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development: Social Development Sub-study (ABCD: SD)

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NIJ is seeking an application for a sub-study that incorporates measures of delinquency and victimization at five sites of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. This program furthers the Department’s mission to provide objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and criminal justice, particularly at the State and local levels.

NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime

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NIJ is seeking an application for funding to support the project—Life Course and Intergenerational Effects of Criminal Justice Involvement: Identifying Risks, the Search for Resilience, and the Impact of Rise in Opioid Misuse and the COVID-19 Pandemic. This project seeks to extend the existing data collection for the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS) and its intergenerational extension, the Rochester Intergenerational Study (RIGS). 

NIJ FY23 Youth Mentoring Research and Evaluation

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NIJ seeks applications for rigorous youth mentoring research and independent evaluation projects that address one or both of the following two topical areas: 1) barriers/impediments for youth involved in the justice system to access mentoring services, and 2) mentoring programs that serve youth involved in the justice system.

NIJ FY23 Research on Juvenile Justice Topics

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With this solicitation, NIJ, in collaboration with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), seeks proposals for rigorous research and evaluation projects that inform policy and practice in the field of juvenile justice.

NIJ FY23 National Study Examining Interpersonal Violence Experienced By Young Adults

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With this solicitation, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for a nationally representative, longitudinal study examining long-term trajectories of risk for, experiences with, and recovery after experiencing interpersonal violence (IV, victimization and perpetration) among young adults who do and do not attend college. NIJ is interested in a range of IV committed by partners, family members, acquaintances, and strangers, including nonconsensual sexual contact...