Deadline: 24-Apr-23
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) seeks proposals for research and evaluation projects.
Addressing the following topical areas:
- research and evaluation on human trafficking victim assistance and service provision,
- research on forced criminality, and
- human trafficking prevalence estimation. This program furthers the DOJ’s mission by supporting the development of new knowledge and tools to address the challenges of crime and justice in the United States through fundamental research.
NIJ is interested in supporting researchers who are early in their careers and new to NIJ’s research grant portfolios, specifically non-tenured assistant professors, or equivalent full-time staff scientist positions in a research institution, who propose research on topics relevant to NIJ’s Office of Research, Evaluation, and Technology (ORET). To that end, NIJ may, in appropriate circumstances, give special consideration in award decisions to applications proposing such researchers as principal investigators (PIs). To qualify, the proposed PI must, at the time of application submission:
- Hold a non-tenured assistant professor appointment at an accredited institution of higher education in the United States or an equivalent full-time staff scientist position at a research institution in the United States.
- Have completed a terminal degree or post-graduate clinical training within the six (6) years prior to September 30, 2023.
- Have never previously received NIJ funding as a PI on a research project with the exception of Graduate Research Fellows.
Goals: The goal of this solicitation is to better understand, prevent, and respond to trafficking in persons in the United States and to provide federal, state, local, and tribal stakeholders with knowledge and tools to more effectively address trafficking in persons.
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.
- Overall, this solicitation seeks to support projects to:
- Evaluate strategies to provide direct services to victims of human trafficking.
- Understand how individuals use force, fraud, or coercion to compel others to engage in illegal activities.
- Develop better means for human trafficking prevalence estimation.
Topic Areas
- Topic Area 1: Research and Evaluation on Service Provision for Victims of Human Trafficking
- Topic Area 2: Forced Criminality Research
- Topic Area 3: Estimating Prevalence
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $2,000,000
- Period of Performance Duration (Months) 60.
Eligibility Criteria
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- County governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Independent school districts
- Private institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- Special district governments
- State government.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.