This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $500,000 in funding to Cornell University to conduct research on the job search and employment experiences of individuals recently released from incarceration. The project involves two studies: an exploratory qualitative study interviewing up to 30 recently incarcerated individuals and 10 reentry professionals, and a longitudinal quantitative field survey...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $297,178 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to Northeastern University on May 1, 2021 for research concluding on April 30, 2023. The grant supports the research project "Navigating Mainstream Institutions and Non-Traditional Alternatives Post-Incarceration." Northeastern University will examine challenges formerly incarcerated individuals face in accessing mainstream education and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to The Urban Institute for the "Prison Proliferation Project" research study. The project examines the causes and consequences of the prison building boom in the United States since 1970, including where and why prisons are built, how communities are impacted by prisons, and the effects of prison closures. The research aims to produce a comprehensive data set linking prison...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $204,183 to Wake Forest University to conduct research on the experiences and impacts of community supervision programs in both the criminal justice and immigration systems. The key objectives are to: 1) investigate how state actors enforce compliance with supervision requirements, 2) understand how supervised individuals and their families experience...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing a $165,514 Project Grant (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY Oswego) to conduct research on how for-profit companies in the corrections industry create and reinforce their legitimacy through marketing strategies. Key research objectives include examining how these companies market their goods and services, how their marketing impacts the perceptions and...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $154,048 project grant to the University of Rochester for research titled "Variation in Livelihood, Socioeconomic, and Development Outcomes among Communities with Correctional Facilities." The grant period runs from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to support basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences....
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $202,504 to the Dominguez Hills Foundation at California State University, Dominguez Hills to conduct research on the implementation of the "Nordic Model" of incarceration in the United States. The research will examine how principles like human dignity, normalization, and resocialization have been translated for U.S. correctional settings, the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research at the University of Michigan to examine the effects of involvement in the U.S. criminal justice system. The $349,864 award covers a 5-year period from July 2024 to June 2029. The research will leverage the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) data to investigate several key questions: (i) how the risk of criminal justice...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) project grant award of $148,800 supports an 8-week summer REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) program for 12 undergraduate students at the University of Texas at Austin. The program aims to cultivate a new generation of scholars to conduct research on the demography of the criminal justice system. Through a combination of classroom learning, research skill development workshops,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $192,139 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The Curators of the University of Missouri, doing business as the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC). The grant, awarded on June 15, 2024, funds a collaborative research project to evaluate the implementation of the "Nordic Model" of incarceration in the United States. The research aims to shed light on how the principles of...