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Autonomous Vehicles: Expert Panel Lists Top Needs for Law Enforcement as the Dawn of Driverless Roads Inches Closer

Date Published

February 16, 2021

A new age of algorithms taking the wheel en masse is still some years away, but law enforcement must prepare now, an NIJ-sponsored group concludes.

Research and Evaluation on Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2021

Closing Date

May 13, 2021

Research and Evaluation on Policing Strategies for Civil Disturbances, Fiscal Year 2021

Closing Date

May 13, 2021

NIJ Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, Fiscal Year 2021

Closing Date

May 13, 2021

Research and Evaluation on the Police Response to Homelessness, Fiscal Year 2021

Closing Date

May 3, 2021

Evaluation of the Vision X Comparison Microscope to Share Digital Images of Bullets and Shell Casings and the Potential Impact on the Firearms and Tool Marks Community

Date Published

2020

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Summary), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Optimizing Juvenile Assessment Performance

Date Published

December 2020

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored, OJJDP-Sponsored

Evaluation of 3D Virtual Comparison Microscopy for Firearm Forensics within the Crime Lab

Date Published

December 2020

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Risk and Needs Assessments in Prisons: Identifying High-Priority Needs for Using Evidence-Based Practices

Date Published

2020

Series

NIJ Identifying the Highest Priority Criminal Justice Needs

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2021

Closing Date

April 27, 2021

Tribal-Researcher Capacity-Building Grants Solicitation, Fiscal Year 2021

Closing Date

April 26, 2021

Development of a Mobile, Automated Tool Mark Characterization/Comparison System

2011-DN-R-0230-2

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2011

$499,000

Replication Studies are Vital to Science We Can Count On

Science is a cornerstone of the justice system, and reliability is a cornerstone of science. Justice tools we take for granted today, such as crime mapping software, DNA identification of suspects, and automated fingerprint systems, are products of well-tested science. Extraordinary tools are now ordinary features of our justice system because the science has persuaded the courts and law enforcement that those tools, in the...

Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2021

Closing Date

June 10, 2021

Research and Evaluation of Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2021

Closing Date

April 8, 2021

MicroCantilever (MC) based Robust Sensing Approach for Controlled Substances

2008-DN-R-038

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2007

$685,000

National Firearms Examiner Academy Forensic Science Training

2008-DNR-122

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2008

$500,000

Investigation of a novel approach to forensic analysis using neutron imaging techniques

2008-IJ-R-134-1

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2010

$499,261

Universal IR Fluorescent Latent-Print Detection Method

2008-IJ-R-134-2

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2010

$440,013

Computerized System for Aiding the Expert in Evaluating the Degree of Certainty in 2D Shoeprints

2009-DN-R-090

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2009

$366,009

Improvements to Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry for Quantitative Forensic Analysis Using a Short Pulse (100 Femtosecond) Ultraviolet Laser

2009-DN-R-112

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2009

$237,977

Significance of Association in Tool Mark Characterization

2009-DN-R-119-2

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2010

$390,000

Manipulative Virtual Tools for Tool Mark Characterization

2009-DN-R-119-1

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2009

$360,000

3D Characterization and Comparison of Fracture Surfaces

2011-DN-R-0230

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2011

$355,000

Development and Delivery of Knowledge-based Forensic Science Curricula

2013-DNR-4876

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2013

$450,000