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Victimization

Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men: Findings from a National Survey

June 2016

This seminar provides the first set of estimates from a national large-scale survey of violence against women and men who identified themselves as American Indian or Alaska Native using detailed behaviorally specific questions on psychological aggression, coercive control and entrapment, physical violence, stalking, and sexual violence. These results are expected to raise awareness and understanding of violence experienced by American Indian and Alaska Native people.

Teen Dating Violence: What Do We Know About Dating Violence from Adolescence into Young Adulthood?

March 2016
Teen dating violence is a serious public health problem that is also associated with increased odds of experiencing adult intimate partner violence. This webinar will provide newly emerging information from two NIH/NIJ co-funded longitudinal studies about the progression of dating violence in the period between adolescence and early adulthood.

Longitudinal Cohort Study of Interpersonal Violence Among College-Aged Women and Men: Planning Phase

Closing Date
NIJ, in collaboration with other Federal agencies, is interested in funding a multi-year effort to conduct a nationally representative, longitudinal study examining long-term trajectories of risk for, experiences with, and recovery after experiencing violence among college-aged individuals. NIJ is broadly interested in victimization and violence experienced by college age individuals including sexual assault and rape, dating violence, stalking, violence committed by peers, and violence committed...

New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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NIJ's New Investigator/Early Career Program provides support for non-tenured assistant professors to conduct applied research on topics relevant to ORE including justice systems, violence and victimization, and/or crime control and prevention. Applications must propose research led by a Principal Investigator (PI) who: was awarded a terminal degree no more than four (4) years ago; holds a non-tenured assistant professor position at an accredited institution of...

Violence Against Women Research Consortium

Closing Date

NIJ seeks a research consortium focused on topical areas related to violence against women to include domestic and intimate partner violence, sexual violence, stalking, and teen dating violence. The research consortium is expected to be an interdisciplinary team of researchers representing expertise broadly across violence against women. The research consortium will support NIJ in a variety of research, evaluation, and planning tasks on an ongoing...