Deadline: 15-Apr-25
The National Institute of Justice is inviting applications for its Graduate Research Fellowship to support doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice in the United States.
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 and local level.
Objectives
- Develop, demonstrate, and evaluate programs and practices relevant to criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victims’ services outcomes.
- Identify and analyze the causes and correlates of crime.
- Improve the functioning of the criminal and juvenile 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.
Funding Information
- Total amount to be awarded: $2 million
- Award Ceiling: up to $180,000
- Anticipated Period of Performance Duration: up to 60 months
- Each fellowship provides up to three years of support usable within a five-year period. For each year of support, NIJ provides:
- $41,000 for Salary and Fringe.
- Up to $16,000 in Cost of Education Allowance.
- Up to $3,000 in Research Expenses.
Expected Deliverables
- Deliverables are what the applicant will create or produce under the award. The term “deliverables” as used here refers to discrete products under an award. An award may support activities (e.g., personnel time for award activities) that are part of recipient performance but are not considered deliverables).
- Scholarly Products: NIJ expects scholarly products to result from each award under this NOFO, 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 the dissemination of such products throughout the period of performance to the extent possible. Development and delivery of interim products should be built into the Project Timeline.
- NIJ expects awardees to deposit author accepted manuscripts for peer reviewed publications derived from research funded by the award in a publication repository designated by NIJ.
- Ensuring Research Evidence is Translated into Actionable Information to Promote Change in the Field: In addition to scholarly products, NIJ expects that grantees will put an equal effort to development of dissemination products to make the research findings accessible to practitioner and policymaker audiences.
- Required Data Sets and Associated Files and Documentation: NIJ requires grant recipients to archive each data set resulting in whole or in part from their funded research. This ensures the preservation, availability, and transparency of data collected through its grant funded research projects. It also supports the discovery, reuse, reproduction, replication, and extension of funded studies by other scientists.
Eligibility Criteria
- The types of entities that are eligible to apply for this funding opportunity are listed below:
- Educational Organizations
- Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Additional Applicant Eligibility Factors
- The applicant will be a degree-granting academic institution in the United States or its territories. To be eligible, the academic institution must be fully accredited by one of the regional institutional accreditation agencies recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
- Academic institutions are eligible to apply only if:
- The student is currently enrolled in a research doctorate program at the eligible academic institution. Humanities and Visual and Performing Arts degree programs are not eligible.
- The student’s proposed dissertation research has demonstrable relevance to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice, in the United States.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.