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Research and development

NIJ FY 08 Sensors and Surveillance Technologies: Invited Full Proposals

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NIJ is seeking applications for funding research and development of sensor and surveillance technologies to address specific needs in criminal justice. NIJ is particularly interested in the following three areas: 1. Concealed weapons detection (CWD) at a safe distance. 2. Through-the-wall surveillance (TWS) for locating and/or tracking individuals within buildings. 3. Other novel sensor or surveillance technologies, applications, or support functions for specific criminal justice...

NIJ FY 08 Forensic DNA Research and Development: Invited Full Proposals

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NIJ is seeking is seeking applications for funding for research and development that can enhance the forensic uses of DNA technology in criminal justice settings. This solicitation focuses on development of technologies that result in faster, more robust, more informative, less costly, or less labor-intensive identification, collection, preservation, and/or analysis of biological evidence that has the potential for DNA analysis.

NIJ FY 08 ORE Violence Against Women

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NIJ seeks applications to gain research knowledge to increase women's safety and improve the justice system and related responses to intimate partner violence, sexual assault, stalking, and teen dating violence perpetrated against women. Research is sought on women victims' safety and protection; programs and policies to hold offenders accountable; law enforcement, prosecution, and judicial responses; coordinated community responses; and effective responses to violence against women...

NIJ FY 08 ORE Social Science Research in Forensic Sciences

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The field of forensic science has experienced numerous advances over the last decade. Improvements in technology have increased capabilities to utilize forensic evidence, both in terms of what can be analyzed and how quickly it can be processed. NIJ is interested in stimulating research to determine how effectively forensic evidence is being used to identify and process criminal offenders and the impact of these advances...

NIJ FY 08 ORE American Indian and Alaska Native Crime and Justice Issues

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Over the years, NIJ has engaged in a number of research and evaluation efforts to better understand the criminal and juvenile justice problems in American Indian Alaska Native communities and the many challenges tribal nations and American Indians and Alaska Natives face. The goal of this solicitation is to fund research and evaluation that will provide much needed practical, measurable, and descriptive information on methods...

NIJ FY08 ORE Research on Crime Prevention and Control: Focus on Gangs

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NIJ is soliciting applications for research and evaluation projects that advance the understanding and practice of gang prevention, intervention, and enforcement. At the group level, gangs vary from small local "crews" that are active for only a short period, to multigenerational gangs with local subgroups across multiple states or nations. Gangs also vary widely in terms of organizational sophistication. Across these group-level variations, gang membership...

NIJ FY08 ORE Research on Safe Community Release for Pretrial and Jail Populations

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NIJ is soliciting applications for research and evaluation of pretrial and jail options that promote cost-effective alternatives to detention and incarceration and protect public safety. The Institute has identified the pretrial and jail release phases of the criminal justice system as an understudied research priority. It is at these stages that case management and other key decisions affecting detention, case outcome, and sentencing are made...

NIJ FY 08 ORE Trafficking

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NIJ is seeking applications for funding for research projects to address knowledge gaps related to trafficking in human beings in the United States. NIJ is particularly interested in research related to labor trafficking, demand reduction for sex trafficking and commercial sex acts, and in identifying and addressing issues faced by trafficking victims. All applications should be for research with direct, immediate, and obvious implications for...

NIJ FY 08 ORE Policing and Public Safety Interventions

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NIJ is seeking applications to conduct research on policing to improve law enforcement policies and operations at the State and local levels. Effective law enforcement and crime prevention are of critical importance to ensuring the safety of communities throughout the country. Given the limited resources of most police departments and other local criminal justice agencies and groups, it is especially important to determine the effectiveness...

NIJ FY 08 ORE Terroism

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NIJ is seeking applications to conduct social science research on terrorism that will inform national criminal justice policy and practice. Proposed research should aim to improve criminal justice and first responder strategies for preventing, preparing for, responding to, and mitigating terrorist incidents at the Federal, State, and local levels. Applications may address either domestic or international terrorism, but research should have direct, immediate, and obvious...

NIJ FY 08 ORE Elder Mistreatment

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NIJ is soliciting applications for research and evaluation in the area of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation (including abuse of individuals who reside either in the community or in residential care facilities). For the purpose of this solicitation, the term "abuse" includes physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, abandonment and isolation, neglect, or financial or fiduciary abuse perpetrated against any person over the age of...

NIJ FY 08 ORE Crime and Justice

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The Crime and Justice Research solicitation is NIJ's "open" solicitation for social and behavioral research and evaluation on topics relevant to State and/or local criminal and juvenile justice policy and practice. Most crime and justice topics that are relevant to policymakers and practitioners are eligible for consideration. Potential applicants are encouraged to read NIJ's targeted solicitations as they are released to determine which solicitation is...

NIJ FY 07/08 ORE Graduate Research Fellowship

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The NIJ Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) program provides awards for research on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics to accredited universities that support graduate study leading to research-based doctoral degrees. NIJ invests in doctoral education by supporting universities that sponsor students who demonstrate the potential to successfully complete doctoral degree programs in disciplines relevant to the mission of NIJ. Applicants sponsoring doctoral students...

Declining Crime and Our National Research Agenda: A New Yorker's View

Inaugural Lecture
The Jack and Lewis Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program

Good Afternoon:

I thank you for the invitation to speak with you this afternoon and thank Dr. Gerald Lynch for arranging this impressive gathering. I am especially honored to be presenting the inaugural lecture of the Jack and Lewis Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program. The Rudin family is synonymous with civic commitment to the...

Policing in Transition

I am deeply honored that you invited me to address this impressive gathering of international experts and scholars here in the beautiful city of Budapest. As Director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, I am particularly excited about the potential for a continuing dialogue between my colleagues and the practitioners and researchers who are gathered...