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The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582), awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Westat, Inc. to design and implement a longitudinal study examining the extent and consequences of interpersonal violence among college-aged persons. The study aims to identify trajectories of risk, experiences, and recovery related to interpersonal violence victimization and perpetration, with a focus on differences between those...

The University of California Irvine received a $877,000 National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grant to analyze homicide data in Los Angeles, California between 2010-2022. The project aims to improve understanding of situational dynamics driving the recent increase in homicidal violence and gun deaths through analysis of homicide investigation files obtained from the Los Angeles Police Department. Justice & Security Strategies, Inc. will collect, clean,...

The National Institute of Justice awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant to Northwestern University to extend an ongoing 28-year longitudinal study, the Northwestern Juvenile Project (NJP), to investigate violent behavior and victimization in under-resourced communities. The study will focus on patterns, trajectories, and predictors of violent behavior and victimization from adolescence through median age 42 among a sample of youth who were previously detained. The project aims to provide critical...

The Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime awarded a $116,925 cooperative agreement to Social Current Inc. under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582) to conduct an implementation study and evaluation. The study will summarize work by five demonstration sites using a public health approach to reduce childhood fatalities from neglect. It will seek to understand how the demonstration sites' collaborative strategies and national technical assistance can...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics has awarded a $225,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (CFDA 16.550). The funding will support two projects that aim to build analytical capacity for understanding violence between law enforcement officers and criminal suspects in Florida. The first project will assess the quality and completeness of the state's...

The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) was awarded a $228,407 cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics under the State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers. The award will support two projects focused on using criminal justice data to measure community violence and assess patterns of disparity in gender-based violence. Specifically, ICJIA will develop new community violence metrics...

This Project Grant award of $942,512 was provided by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the NIJ Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560). The grant will fund the development and administration of the Longitudinal Hate Crime Victimization Survey (LHCVS) by Florida State University over a 3-year period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027. The survey research aims to examine the within-person variation in hate crime victimization experiences over...

This $650,000 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice, under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582), will fund an implementation and outcome evaluation of the VictimConnect resource center. VictimConnect, which receives funding from the Office for Victims of Crime, is a national referral helpline for crime victims accessible through softphone, chat, text, and website resources. The Urban Institute...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), under the Federal Grant Program 16.560 - National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants, will fund a $908,415 study to evaluate the structures, practices, and intended outcomes of specialized law enforcement bias crime investigative units across the United States. The key project activities include: Conducting a survey to develop a taxonomy and classify different models of bias crime...

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded a $788,241 Project Grant under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CFDA 16.045) to the University of New Haven. The 5-year grant will support a mixed methods evaluation of community-based violence intervention and prevention initiatives operating in New Haven, CT, and York, PA. The evaluation will examine whether these initiatives have built stronger collaborations among community stakeholders, enhanced...