A Developmental Study of the Keeping Kids in School Initiative
2017-CK-BX-0018
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$999,333
Social and Behavioral Science
Understanding Socio-Environmental and Physical Risk Factors Influencing Firearm Violence
2017-IJ-CX-0020
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2017
$749,999
How to Encourage a Culture of Officer Safety
July 2017
Jeff Rojek, Associate Director for the Center for Law and Behavior at the University of Texas, explains what the research shows about why law enforcement officers are more or less likely to use seat belts.
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NIJ FY17 ABCD Sub-Study on Social Development
Closing Date
Funding from this award will support the first year of a sub-study involving 5 of the 21 ABCD sites to include measures of delinquency and victimization in their investigations. The sub-study will address key questions on the interactions between substance use, brain development, delinquency, and victimization. The ABCD Study is the largest longitudinal study of brain development and child health in the US, following approximately...
NIJ's Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Program — Departing Class
June 2017
In this video, law enforcement officers discuss how NIJ’s Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) scholar program benefits professional development and provides the opportunity to network with academia and share research with other agencies to improve evidence-based policing. In addition, law officers discuss how the LEADs scholar program equips smaller agencies to improve community relations.
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Evaluation of the Use of a Non-Contact, 3D Scanner for Collecting Postmortem Fingerprints
Date Published
August 2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Evaluation,
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Improving Officer Safety in Interactions With Citizens Suffering From Mental Illness
May 2017
Cara Altimus, former ASSS Fellow with NIJ, discusses the importance of law enforcement and first responders understanding mental illness, its causes, and how it affects the brain. She speaks about the correlation between drug addiction and mental illness. Altimus also addresses establishing procedures and systems so that police officers and first responders can safely and successfully interact with individuals with drug addiction and/or mental illness.
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Understanding the Effects of Fatigue on Law Enforcement
May 2017
Steven James (Assistant Research Professor, Washington State University, College of Medicine) and Lois James (Assistant Professor, Washington State University, College of Nursing) discuss research on how fatigue and sleep deprivation affect officers when they make critical decisions to use deadly force. The researchers also discuss how often law enforcement officers are fatigued, the impacts of officer fatigue and drowsy driving, and the goal of implementing positive changes.
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How Best Protect Your Force Against Officer Suicide
May 2017
John Violanti, Research Professor at Buffalo, discusses the importance of making police departments aware that officer suicide is a problem. According to Violanti, police officers have a significantly higher rate of suicide than the general public. Reasons for this higher risk include the accumulative effects of trauma and stress.
Violanti describes steps police agencies are taking to help police officers, including teaching recruits what they may experience on the job.
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NIJ FY17 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations
Closing Date
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.
Using Technology to Prevent Violence in Schools
Date Published
March 29, 2017
NIJ FY17 Evaluation of OVC's Vision 21: Law Enforcement and the Communities They Serve: Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm
Closing Date
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has a longstanding history of collaboration with and supporting the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) on research, evaluation, and programmatic projects. With this solicitation, in partnership OVC, NIJ seeks competitive proposals for a single award that will support evaluation research on the Vision 21: Law Enforcement and the Communities They Serve: Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of...
Reflections on Colorado's Administrative Segregation Study
Date Published
March 1, 2017
One researcher who specializes in corrections discusses the study's strengths and limitations, the impassioned response to its findings, and areas for further research.