Project Grant ORIIR150013

This $500,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) will fund the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) to create a community awareness toolkit. The toolkit will include training curricula, videos, handouts, and other resources for law enforcement to use in educating communities on topics such as gender-based violence...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $16,024,804 Cooperative Agreement under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the University of Washington to establish the SECURE (Safeguarding the Entire Community of the U.S. Research Ecosystem) Center. The SECURE Center will help the U.S. research community mitigate foreign threats to the security and integrity of the nation's research enterprise. The SECURE Center will use a participatory design approach to develop a suite of...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $362,577 to Columbia University for research on attacking networks of tax evasion. The research will combine new economic theory and innovative methodologies to provide insights into tax evasion by firms and the strength of enforcement spillovers through production networks. In partnership with tax...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), under the CFDA 16.560 NIJ Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program, provides $800,847 to RTI International, in collaboration with Duke University's Wilson Center for Science and Justice, to implement and evaluate a mixed-methods project entitled "Data-Driven Prosecution Practices: Exploring the Implementation and Impact of Plea Tracking." The project aims to introduce a new model, the Plea...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $500,000 to Cornell University to conduct research on the job search and employment experiences of individuals recently released from incarceration (IRRIs). The project involves two studies - an exploratory qualitative study interviewing up to 30 IRRIs and 10 reentry professionals, and a quantitative longitudinal field survey of 200 IRRIs over their first...

This $972,083 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560) supports a comprehensive research plan to examine the impact of police executives on accountability mechanisms and outcomes within law enforcement. The University of Utah is the prime recipient and is partnering with Purdue University and the University of South Carolina as sub-recipients. The key products and services to be delivered include: Building a comprehensive dataset on U.S. police executives from...

The National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) will develop and deliver new advanced training on digital forensics tools and techniques under a $437,500 cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The training is part of the Missing Children's Assistance program and will cover five modules of the EZTools digital forensics toolset and the KAPE tool. NW3C will provide the training through online on-demand...

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...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $166,614 to fund research examining how defense attorneys make plea recommendations in criminal cases. The Research Foundation of the City University of New York, on behalf of John Jay College, will conduct a series of four studies from March 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023 to better understand the factors...

Strategic Capacity Group, Inc. will provide correctional training services in Barbados through a $101,458 cooperative agreement awarded by the Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement under the Criminal Justice Systems federal grant program (CFDA 19.703). As a nonprofit organization focused on law enforcement training and international development, Strategic Capacity Group will deliver correctional institution management training from April 2023 through February...