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The DOJ Scientific Integrity Policy underscores the validity and objectivity of NIJ’s scientific endeavors.
The Institute provides objective and independent knowledge and tools to enhance safety and promote justice. NIJ follows widely accepted scientific processes and procedures to help ensure the validity and integrity of our research. This page describes:
NIJ sponsors fellowship programs to strengthen and broaden the pool of researchers looking at the issues of crime and justice by:
NIJ’s research and development process helps ensure that projects are relevant to the field and produce valid, actionable results. The process typically includes:
Throughout this process, we follow widely accepted scientific processes and procedures to help ensure the validity and integrity of our research.
We identify the needs of criminal justice fields through engagement with practitioners, policymakers and researchers.
We sponsor meetings, workshops and...
The following table presents NIJ's Graduate Research Fellows since 2000. When available, the project titles are linked to an abstract of the fellow's final report, from which you also can download the full report.
| Fiscal Year | Award Number | Fellow, University and Dissertation Chair (if available) | Project Title (linked to description or final report if available) | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15PNIJ-24-GG-01564-RESS | Talley Bettens... |
NIJ learns from the people who work day-to-day with the issues. We sponsor meetings, workshops, and working groups that bring together researchers, policymakers, technologists, and practitioners.
These meetings generate a rich exchange of ideas. They guide future research and help ensure that NIJ's research, development and evaluation activities meet real-world needs.
Review the summaries or transcripts available for many of these meetings:
Good morning:
I thank you for the invitation to speak with you this morning and thank Mark Kleiman for arranging this impressive gathering. I realize that my trips to the West Coast are all too infrequent and so took advantage of a trip even further west -- to Australia -- to spend a few hours with you and with Peter Greenwood and his colleagues at...
