Deadline: 3-Mar-25
The National Institute of Justice is inviting applications to support scientific research to increase the understanding of public health and safety prevention and intervention efforts to stop different forms of violence and their resulting trauma.
Under NIJ’s Violence Against Women & Family Violence Research and Evaluation Program, the focus is on specific types of violence and abuse, including adolescent relationship abuse (ARA), domestic violence (DV), economic abuse, family violence (FV), homicide, and other forms of violent death, intimate partner violence (IPV), sex trafficking, sexual violence (SV), and stalking, along with the associated justice system responses, procedures, policies, and challenges.
Goal
- The National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program fosters the development of new knowledge and tools that can be applied to reduce crime and advance justice, particularly at the state, local, and tribal levels.
Objectives
- Develop, demonstrate, and evaluate programs and practices relevant to criminal, juvenile, and tribal justice systems, and crime victims’ services outcomes.
- Identify and analyze the causes and correlates of crime.
- Improve the functioning of the criminal, juvenile, and tribal justice systems.
- Develop new methods for the prevention and reduction of crime.
- Develop new methods to detect, investigate, and prosecute crime.
- Enhance the justice research infrastructure.
Focus Areas
- Case Processing: NIJ is interested in the reporting, investigation, and prosecution of cases involving DV, FV, IPV, SV, stalking, and ARA.
- Stalking: NIJ is interested in risk and protective factors for victimization and perpetration, help-seeking, and outcomes of stalking.
- Technology Research & Development: NIJ is interested in the use of technology to protect or deliver services to victims of DV, FV, IPV, rape, sexual assault, and stalking.
- Evaluation Research on Violence Against Women Programs: NIJ is soliciting proposals under this category for high-quality evaluations focused on testing programs, practices, models, or interventions aimed at enhancing engagement with the justice system for women and girls who have been victimized and improving accountability within the criminal justice system from individuals who engage in or perpetrate violence against women and girls.
Evaluation Areas of Interest
- Enhancing engagement with Justice Systems for Individuals who have been victimized: For this NOFO, engagement with justice systems refers to the active involvement of individuals affected by crime and who have suffered harm.
- Improving Accountability for Persons who offend: Accountability refers to holding individuals responsible for their crimes, ensuring that they are answerable for their behavior and the harm they have caused others, and making amends.
Funding Information
- Total amount to be awarded under this funding opportunity: $3,700,000.00
- Anticipated number of awards: 4 to 5
- Anticipated period of performance duration: not to exceed 60 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Government Entities:
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Native American Tribal governments (other than federally recognized)
- Educational Organizations:
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Tribal institutions of higher education
- Nonprofit Organizations:
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For-Profit Organizations:
- Organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Other:
- Federal agencies
- Institutions with demonstrated expertise or experience
- Other Units of Local Government
For more information, visit Grants.gov.