Project Grant 2337293
- This Project Grant award, valued at $349,864 and funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will support research that leverages recently linked criminal justice data from the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) to study how involvement in the justice system shapes the lives of individuals, families, and communities in the U.S. The research aims to answer questions about: 1) changes in the risk of criminal...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $403,882 to Rutgers, The State University to develop improved methods for designing and analyzing audit experiments. Audit experiments are commonly used to test for discriminatory behavior but can be confounded by multiple interventions. This award will support research to disentangle causal effects by incorporating potential confounders as additional...
- This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $206,134, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports a research project focused on developing a better understanding of legal pluralism, the coexistence of multiple legal systems within one society, with a specific focus on documenting and collaboratively developing customary law in relation to formal state legal systems. The key...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $298,500 project grant to the Law & Society Association to support research collaborations and mentoring of sociolegal scholars from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. This funding falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in these fields through monitoring resources invested in science. Under this award, the Law...
- This $349,667 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) to the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). This 3-year project, beginning July 1, 2024, aims to examine the potential impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) integration in state court operations. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: 1) Mapping the state court workforce using a multi-team systems approach to...
- This federal Project Grant award of $183,720 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project at The Pennsylvania State University. The project tracks citizens' attitudes towards a judicial reform effort involving the direct election of more than 7,000 key judicial positions in the country. By conducting a four-wave panel survey and survey experiments, the research aims to address three key...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program will support research at the University of Mississippi (UM) on plea bargaining policies and practice in the U.S. legal system. The $163,533 award, effective January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2025, will fund a fellowship for an assistant professor to develop expertise in plea bargaining through collaborations with researchers at Duke University and the Wilson Center for Science and...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to an organization located in Philadelphia, PA to support research titled "RACE AND RURALITY IN THE PRETRIAL EXPERIENCE" from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The grant is funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences. The award will...
- This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund an early career scientist's ethnographic research on social determinants of knowledge production. Under the sponsorship of researchers at Harvard University and Arizona State University, the grant recipient will conduct comparative multi-site ethnography across regional police departments and nonprofits. Through observations, document analysis, and...
- This $150,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research to develop impact-aware machine learning models for risk assessment in juvenile justice systems. The University of Arizona will design a framework that incorporates the effects of interventions on recidivism risk while achieving individual fairness and data privacy. The researchers will adapt potential outcomes frameworks from causal inference to build models...
CAREER: EQUITABLE ACCESS TO JUSTICE: DETERMINANTS OF ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEM -THE UNITED STATES JUSTICE SYSTEM FACES A SERIOUS CRISIS KNOWN AS THE CIVIL JUSTICE GAP. NOT ONLY DO MORE PEOPLE NEED CIVIL LEGAL ASSISTANCE THAN ARE ABLE TO OBTAIN IT BUT ALSO EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT MANY PEOPLE WHO NEED LEGAL ASSISTANCE DO NOT SEEK HELP. ALTHOUGH LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT WHY THE CIVIL JUSTICE GAP EXISTS, AVAILABLE RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT THE BARRIERS TO LEGAL ASSISTANCE ARE COMPLEX AND MULTI-FACETED. AS SOCIETY GRAPPLES WITH REDUCING THE CIVIL JUSTICE GAP, THERE IS A GROWING NEED TO UNDERSTAND (1) PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM AND CIVIL JUSTICE PROBLEMS AND (2) WHEN, WHY, AND HOW PEOPLE SEEK LEGAL ASSISTANCE OR RESOLVE CIVIL JUSTICE PROBLEMS ON THEIR OWN. THIS RESEARCH OFFERS A NUANCED UNDERSTANDING OF THESE AIMS THAT SPECIFICALLY CONSIDERS GROUP DIFFERENCES IN PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS AND LEGAL ASSISTANCE SEEKING. OF SPECIAL CONCERN ARE PEOPLE WHOM THE LEGAL SYSTEM HAS HISTORICALLY UNDERSERVED, SUCH AS PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THOSE IN LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS. THE EMPIRICAL FOUNDATION PROVIDED THROUGH THIS RESEARCH IS ESSENTIAL FOR DEVELOPING MUCH NEEDED MODELS OF CIVIL JUSTICE ASSISTANCE-SEEKING BEHAVIOR. THROUGH INTEGRATED RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES, THIS CAREER PROJECT ADDRESSES SEVERAL OBJECTIVES: (1) MAP COMMUNITY MEMBERS? PERCEPTIONS OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM, CIVIL JUSTICE PROBLEMS, AND LEGAL SELF-EFFICACY TO EXAMINE GROUP DIFFERENCES IN THESE PERCEPTIONS; (2) IDENTIFY PREDICTORS OF LEGAL ASSISTANCE SEEKING FOR CIVIL JUSTICE PROBLEMS AND SUCCESSFUL PROBLEM-SOLVING OUTSIDE OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM; (3) DEVELOP, IMPLEMENT, AND DISSEMINATE A COMMUNITY-BASED ACCESS-TO-JUSTICE PROGRAM USING PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH METHODS; AND (4) DEVELOP EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES THAT PREPARE STUDENTS TO WORK IN DIVERSE COMMUNITIES WITH CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND CULTURAL HUMILITY. THE FIRST TWO OBJECTIVES CENTER ON A MULTI-PART FIELD STUDY, INCLUDING A LARGE-SCALE, NATIONAL COMMUNITY SURVEY TO ASSESS COMMUNITY MEMBERS? PERCEPTIONS AND A LONGITUDINAL MULTI-METHOD STUDY EXAMINING CIVIL JUSTICE PROBLEMS AND RESOLUTION PATHWAYS. THE PROJECT ALSO ENGAGES LOCAL COMMUNITIES COLLABORATIVELY TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM AIMED AT ADDRESSING LOCAL NEEDS RELATED TO CIVIL JUSTICE PROBLEMS, INCLUDING THE PRODUCTION OF MATERIALS FOR NATION-WIDE DISSEMINATION. FINDINGS FROM THIS PROJECT PROVIDE AN EMPIRICAL FOUNDATION FOR MODELS OF CIVIL JUSTICE DECISION-MAKING THAT INFORM THEORY DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD OF ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND PROVIDE EVIDENCE NEEDED TO DESIGN EFFECTIVE INITIATIVES TO REDUCE THE CIVIL JUSTICE GAP. THIS PROJECT IS JOINTLY FUNDED BY LAW AND SCIENCE AND THE ESTABLISHED PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH (EPSCOR). THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 5/16/25 | ||
| Not listed | $116.3k | 7/22/24 | ||
| Not listed | $330.0k | 3/13/24 |