Social and Behavioral Science
NIJ FY 10 ORE Continuations
Awards made under this funding opportunity are Continuation awards. These are grants or cooperative agreements that provide supplemental funds to awards made in a prior fiscal year. Typically, these awards were made initially in response to competitive solicitations. NIJ often uses continuations to fund multi-year research and development projects.
Evaluating A Drug Testing and Graduated Sanctions Program in Delaware: A Randomized Trial
Development of Advanced Raman Spectroscopy Methods and Databases For the Evaluation of Trace Evidence and the Examination of Questioned Documents (Phase I)
Judicial Oversight and Reducing Pretrial Domestic Violence
First Offender Prostitution Program
Michael Shively discusses an evaluation of the First Offender Prostitution Program in San Francisco which has gained tremendous interest across the nation.
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Development and Evaluation of a Whole Genome Amplification Method for Accurate Multiplex STR Genotyping of Compromised Forensic Casework Samples
Parole Violations and Revocations — Evidence-Based Responses to California in Crisis
Expert Chat Webinar
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Preventing Neighborhood Crime: Geography Matters
NIJ FY 09 Evaluation of OVC's FY 09 Services for Domestic Minor Victims of Human Trafficking
NIJ seeks proposals to conduct an evaluation of human trafficking demonstration programs that will be funded by the Office for Victims of Crimes (OVC) under a concurrent FY09 solicitation. Specifically, the successful grantee will conduct a participatory process evaluation of two OVC demonstration programs that will be chosen based on their promising strategies to deliver a comprehensive array of services to child victims (i.e., under...
Men Who Murder Their Families: What the Research Tells Us
Experts discuss cases of domestic violence that escalate to homicide followed by suicide. Although the economy and unemployment are risk factors, prior domestic violence is by far the number one risk factor. The men usually display possessive, obsessive and jealous behavior, and they typically use guns to threaten and terrorize before they use them to kill.
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Reallocating Prison Expenses to Fund Stronger Probation and Parole Programs
Adam Gelb, Director, Pew Center's Public Safety Performance Project, discusses the idea of reallocating prison expenses to probation and parole programs.
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Criminal Background Checks and Hiring Ex-Offenders
Al Blumstein, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Kiminori Nakamura, Doctoral Student
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How Terrorists Learn
Interview at the 2009 NIJ Conference with, Michael Kenney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science and Fellow International Center for the Study of Terrorism, Pennsylvania State University
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Illegal Gun Markets
Strategies for Disrupting Illegal Firearms Markets: A Case Study of Los Angeles