Expired Funding Opportunities

The SJS Program is designed to maintain and enhance each state's capacity to address criminal justice issues through the collection and analysis of data. The program provides limited funds to coordinate statistical activities within the state, conduct research to estimate the impacts of legislative and policy changes, and serve as a liaison role to assist BJS with gathering data from respondent agencies in their states. Each application for funding under this program must identify the participating organizations in the state and the particular issues to be addressed.

The FIST program collects counts of firearm transfers and permit checks conducted by state and local agencies and combines this information with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) transaction data.

BJS invites candidates to apply to its Visiting Fellow Program to undertake methodological research to enhance its capacity to implement an arrestee drug use monitoring program. The redesigned program will collect drug use data and will produce reliable estimates of the prevalence of drug use among arrestees. The selected Visiting Fellow will be involved in efforts to assess the reliability of biological and survey responses, and methods to generate reliable estimates of drug use by those who enter the criminal justice system.

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This solicitation seeks applicants to design and conduct a major survey to accompany the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The focus of the work to be commissioned under this solicitation is to develop and test survey methods to provide sub-national estimates of victimization based on the survey responses.

BJS invites candidates to apply to its Visiting Fellow Program to undertake methodological research to enhance its capacity to redesign its NCVS. To accomplish these aims, the Fellow's methodological work would focus primarily on two objectives: developing a modular crime incident report and evaluating the optimal method to incorporate repeat victimization into annual estimates.

BJS seeks a collection agent to administer the 2011 Census of Adult Probation Supervising Agencies (CAPSA2011). The purpose of this award is to provide funding for researching, developing, and maintaining a comprehensive roster of all public and private probation supervising agencies and their offices; assisting BJS with finalizing the questionnaire design for the census; and conducting data collection, analysis, and reporting activities.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking proposals for assistance in designing, developing, and conducting a data collection for the 2009 BJS Survey of Juveniles Charged in Adult Criminal Courts. The goal of this survey is to generate accurate and reliable case processing statistics for juveniles charged as adults in a national or sub-national sample of counties.

The BJS seeks a data collection agent for the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) for the years 2010 through 2013, to collect individual (or offender-level) data on prisoners entering and leaving the custody or supervision of state prison systems and discharges from parole. BJS uses these data to support its ongoing efforts to study changes in racial and offense composition of corrections populations, movements and transitions between stages of the corrections process, and to compare differences among states' correctional populations.

BJS is seeking proposals to obtain a data collection agent for the 2010 National Survey of Prosecutors (NSP-10). The NSP-10 will focus on the administration of prosecution activities and the emerging types of cases and knowledge from a nationally representative sample of approximately 475 prosecutor offices that handle felony cases in state court.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking applicants to field the 2009 BJS Census of Problem-Solving Courts (CPSC). The goal of the census is to generate accurate and reliable national statistics regarding adult offenders who enter problem-solving court programs. The information collected through this census will support a sampling framework to examine case processing information and case dispositions of adults in problem-solving courts.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking applicants to administer the Survey of State Court Criminal Appeals (SSCCA). BJS awarded funds to design and develop a survey capable of obtaining statistical information on criminal appeals in state intermediate appellate courts and courts of last resort in 2008. The purpose of this award is to provide funding to finalize the sampling design and survey development, and to administer the criminal appeals survey.

BJS is announcing a public solicitation seeking a vendor to work with BJS and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), through a cooperative agreement, to conduct a recidivism study. The goal is to generate recidivism statistics on offenders under federal supervision in the community and determine whether, and to what extent, recidivism is affected by offender, probation office, and probation officer characteristics.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics is seeking applicants to conduct a research program that uncovers the developmental patterns and correlates of recidivism in the data collected by the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). The goal of this program is to develop a better understanding of the legal, social, economic and educational factors that influence juvenile and criminal recidivism and successful reentry.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking proposals to examine the problem of elder abuse, mistreatment, and neglect through the collection of data on cases of suspected elder abuse referred to Adult Protective Services (APS) agencies and cases reported to local law enforcement.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics invites candidates to apply to its Visiting Fellow Program to undertake methodological research to enhance its capacity to use its National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) data for studying failure (and success) of state parolees, time served in prison and its contribution to changes in the size of the prison population, periods of imprisonment over the life course of offenders, and methods to address nonresponse in generating national-level estimates of transitions between stages of the imprisonment process.

This program furthers the Department's mission by improving the records utilized by NICS by providing assistance to states to improve the completeness, automation, and transmittal of records to state and federal systems. Such records include criminal history records, records of felony convictions, warrants, records of protective orders, convictions for misdemeanors involving domestic violence and stalking, records of mental health adjudications, and others, which may disqualify an individual from possessing or receiving a firearm under federal law.

The SJS Program is designed to maintain and enhance each state's capacity to address criminal justice issues through the collection and analysis of data. The program provides limited funds to coordinate statistical activities within the state, conduct research to estimate the impacts of legislative and policy changes, and serve as a liaison role to assist BJS with gathering data from respondent agencies in their states. Each application for funding under this program must identify the participating organizations in the state and the particular issues to be addressed.

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The NCHIP grant program furthers the Department's mission to enhance the crime fighting and criminal justice capabilities of state governments by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal history records and enhancing records of protective orders involving domestic violence and stalking, sex offender records, automated identification systems and other state systems supporting national records systems and their use for criminal history background checks.

This solicitation seeks applicants to design and conduct a major survey to accompany the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The focus of the work to be commissioned under this solicitation is to develop and test survey methods to provide sub-national estimates of victimization based on the survey responses.

This program furthers the Department's mission by improving the records utilized by NICS by providing assistance to states to improve the completeness, automation, and transmittal of records to state and federal systems. Such records include criminal history records, records of felony convictions, warrants, records of protective orders, convictions for misdemeanors involving domestic violence and stalking, records of mental health adjudications, and others, which may disqualify an individual from possessing or receiving a firearm under federal law.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking proposals to develop, design, and field test the Survey of State Court Criminal Appeals and to prepare an implementation plan for fielding the survey in 2009. The goal of the survey is to obtain information about the types of criminal cases appealed from state trial courts to state intermediate appellate courts and/or courts of last resort, the disposition of criminal appeals, appellate case processing time, and the impact of appellate litigation on trial court outcomes for criminal cases.