NIJ: Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime (US)

Deadline: 13-Apr-23

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks applications for funding to advance knowledge to inform and advance effective services for victims.

Topic Areas

In collaboration with the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), NIJ seeks applications for rigorous research and evaluation projects in three topical areas:

• Evaluation of programs that provide services for victims of crime;
• Research on supporting victims of community violence; and
• Financial costs of crime victimization.

NIJ will give special consideration to proposals with methods that include meaningful engagement with the people with lived experience of the subject of study, including but not limited to, justice practitioners, community members, crime victims, service providers, and individuals who have experienced justice system involvement. Applicants are encouraged to propose multidisciplinary research teams to build on the complementary strengths of different methods and areas of subject matter expertise. NIJ also seeks proposals that include consideration and measurement of issues of diversity, discrimination, and bias across age, gender and gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation, as applicable.

Priority Areas

• The Department of Justice is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
  • Priority Considerations Supporting Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
    • Applications that propose research project(s) that are designed to promote racial equity and the removal of barriers to access and opportunity for communities that have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by inequality, when making award decisions.
    • Applicants that demonstrate that their capabilities and competencies for implementing their proposed project(s) are enhanced because they (or at least one proposed subrecipient that will receive at least 40% of the requested award funding, as demonstrated in the Budget Web-Based Form) identify as a culturally specific organization.
  • Minority Serving Institutions
    • NIJ will give special consideration in award decisions to proposals from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).
    • MSIs include:
      • Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)
      • Hispanic-serving Institutions (HSI)
      • Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU)
      • Alaska Native-serving Institutions or Native Hawaiian-serving Institutions (ANNH)
      • Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI)
      • Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving Institutions (AANAPISI)
      • Native American-serving Non-Tribal Institutions (NASNTI).

Goals, Objectives, and Deliverables

• Goals 
  • The goal of this solicitation is to advance knowledge to inform and advance effective services for victims.
• Objectives
  • An applicant should address the objectives that are relevant to their proposed program/project in the Goals, Objectives, Deliverables, and Timeline web-based form. This solicitation seeks to support projects that: (1) evaluate programs that provide services for victims of crime; (2) conduct research on the needs of victims of community violence; and (3) conduct research on the financial costs of victimization.
• Deliverables
  • Final Research Report. Any recipient of an award under this solicitation will be expected to submit a final research report.
  • Required Data Sets and Associated Files and Documentation. Any recipient of an award under this solicitation will be expected to submit to the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) all data sets that result, in whole or in part, from the work funded by the award, along with associated files and any documentation necessary for future efforts by others to reproduce the project’s findings and/or to extend the scientific value of the data set through secondary analysis. 
  • In addition to these deliverables (and the required reports and data on performance measures), NIJ expects scholarly products to result from each award under this solicitation, taking the form of one or more published, peer-reviewed, scientific journal articles, and/or (if appropriate) law review journal articles, book chapter(s) or book(s) in the academic press, technological prototypes, patented inventions, or similar scientific products. NIJ expects that there will be an equal effort to make the research findings accessible to practitioner and policymaker audiences.

Funding Information

• Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $3,000,000.00
• Period of Performance Duration (Months): 60
• Period of Performance Duration: To be determined by the period of performance of awarded applications. Successful applicants will be expected to complete the work proposed within a five-year period of performance.

Eligibility Criteria

• Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
• City or township governments
• Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
• Private institutions of higher education
• For profit organizations other than small businesses
• County governments
• Special district governments
• Small businesses
• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
• Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
• Independent school districts
• State governments
• Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
• Unrestricted
• Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education

For more information, visit Grants.gov.