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BJS-2013-3492
This program announcement describes the guidelines and requirements of the FY 2013
State Justice Statistics (SJS) Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (SACs). Since
1972, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and its predecessor agency, the National
Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service, have provided support to state
and territorial governments to establish and operate SACs to collect, analyze, and
report statistics on crime and justice to federal, state, and local levels of
government and to share state-level information nationally. The information produced
by SACs and their involvement in criminal justice projects have been, and will
continue to be, critical to federal, state, and local criminal justice agencies and
community organizations as they develop programs and policies related to crime,
illegal drugs, victim services, and the administration of justice.
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 specify the participating
organizations in the state and the particular issues to be addressed. Each year, BJS
designates specific topics for analysis and encourages applicants to give careful
consideration to planning activities that fit within one or more of the designated
topics (see section SJS Program Themes). If a SAC does not feel that any of the topics
are relevant to its state, then it may identify a topic or statistical activity of
critical importance to its jurisdiction.
The SJS program themes are selected jointly
by BJS, the Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA), and selected SAC
directors. The themes reflect the issues of current concern and significance to
criminal justice practitioners. JRSA also plays a role in publishing reports based on
SJS themes and organizes an annual conference that helps SACs to share the results
from their work. Some SJS funding priorities help build the infrastructure that allows
SACs to collect and disseminate information to state, national, and international
audiences.
Deadline: All registrations and applications are due by 5:00 p.m. eastern time on Wednesday, March 27, 2013.
Eligibility: State SACs are the only entities eligible to apply for funds under the SJS program.
General applicants must meet the requirements for a SAC as specified in these
guidelines.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Devon B.
Adams, Chief, Criminal Justice Data Improvement Program, by telephone at 202-307-0765,
or by e-mail at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include SJSSAC13 in the subject line.
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BJS-2013-3534
BJS is publishing this notice to announce the continuation of the National Criminal
History Improvement Program (NCHIP) in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, identify the program
priorities, and provide information on application requirements.
The goal of the NCHIP grant program is to improve the nation's safety and security by
enhancing the quality, completeness, and accessibility of criminal history record
information and by insuring the nationwide implementation of criminal justice and
noncriminal justice background check systems.
Deadline: All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on Monday, May 13, 2013.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to the agency designated by the governor in each state
to administer the NCHIP program, and federally recognized tribal entities. States and
tribes may choose to submit applications as part of a multi-state consortium, multi-
tribe consortium, or other entity.
BJS may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in
future fiscal years, dependent on the merit of the applications and on the
availability of appropriations.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Devon B.
Adams, Chief, Criminal Justice Data Improvement Program, by telephone at 202-307-0765,
or by e-mail at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "NCHIP13" in the subject line.
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BJS-2013-3537
BJS is publishing this notice to announce the continuation of the National Instant
Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP) in
Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, identify the program priorities, and provide information on
application requirements.
Deadline: All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on Monday, May 13, 2013.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to: (a) the agency designated by the Governor to
administer the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP); (b) the state or
territory central administrative office or similar entity designated by statute or
regulation to administer federal grant funds on behalf of the jurisdiction's court
system; or (c) federally recognized Indian tribal government.
Contact Information: For assistance with requirements of this solicitation, contact Devon B. Adams, Chief,
Criminal Justice Data Improvement Program, by telephone at 202-307-0765 or by e-mail
at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "2013NARIP" in the subject line.
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BJS-2013-3593
BJS is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding for one or more
BJS Visiting Fellows to work in its Criminal Justice Statistics Programs with existing
BJS data. The overall purpose of this program is to support the scholarly use of BJS
data collections, expand the body of policy-relevant research that uses these data,
and enhance or inform BJS statistical programs.
Under section 302 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, BJS is authorized
to "make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with public
agencies, institutions of higher education, private organizations, or private
individuals" for purposes of collecting and analyzing criminal justice statistics.
Deadline: All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.
Eligibility: The BJS Visiting Fellowship Program is open to applicants who have a recognized
research record, considerable expertise in their area of proposed research, and who
are willing to commit a substantial portion of their time over at least a 12-month
period to undertake analyses of existing BJS data or statistical programs and produce
at least one publishable quality report summarizing their analysis.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Gerard F.
Ramker, Deputy Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics, by telephone at 202-307-0765 or
by e-mail at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "2013VFCJSP" in the subject line.
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BJS-2013-3649
BJS is announcing a public solicitation for the continuation of the Federal Justice
Statistics Program (FJSP) through a Cooperative Agreement. The FJSP is managed by BJS
and serves as the national clearinghouse of federal case processing data. Under this
program, data provided by six federal justice agencies are standardized, maintained,
analyzed, and archived (currently under Award #2010-BJ-CX-K079). The FJSP produces
annual, cross-sectional data files (Standard Analysis Files, or SAFs) which represent
the stages from arrest and prosecution through pretrial release, adjudication,
sentencing, appeals, and corrections. BJS has used these files to report on defendants
processed at a specific stage at a point in time. In the late 1990s, the FJSP
developed a methodology to link person-case records to improve statistical reporting.
Recognizing the greater analytical rigor that linked or longitudinal data provides in
addressing policy questions, the FJSP created the Dyad Link File System to enable
analysis of linked cohorts. The clearinghouse currently contains annual cross-
sectional data files and Dyad Link Files from 1994 to 2010.
Deadline: All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on Monday, June 24, 2013.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit
organizations (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations), faith based
and community organizations, institutions of higher learning (including tribal
institutions of higher education. For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any
profit or management fee).
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Mark
Motivans, BJS Statistician, by telephone at 202-307-0765, or by e-mail at
askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "2013CFJSP" in the subject line.
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BJS-2013-3636
BJS is developing a comprehensive program of statistical data collection efforts to
document justice system activities on tribal lands. Current collections target the
federal justice system, jails in Indian Country, crimes reported by tribal law
enforcement agencies, and tribal court systems. The proposed data collections will
fill two major information gaps. This effort will conduct two separate, but related,
surveys: one of the state and local law enforcement agencies and one of state and
local prosecutor offices that provide justice services on tribal lands. These surveys
will solicit information on administrative procedures and practices, tribal caseloads
and provided services, and the capabilities of the agencies to report detailed data on
the tribal matters they handle.
Deadline: All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on June 18, 2013.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit
organizations, faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher
learning, and consortia with demonstrated organizational and community-based
experience working with American Indian and Alaska Native communities, including
tribal for-profit (commercial) and nonprofit organizations, tribal colleges and
universities, and tribal consortia.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Brian Reaves,
BJS Statistician, by telephone at 202-307-0765,
or by e-mail at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "SLJASTL" in the subject line.
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BJS-2013-3660
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks to establish a cooperative agreement with
a collection agent to field the 2014 Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime
Laboratories (CPFFCL14). The key activities covered under this award include updating
the national census roster of publicly funded crime labs, developing the data
collection instrument (i.e., questionnaire), collecting and verifying the data
submitted by labs, and delivering to BJS a final data file. BJS will provide the
recipient of funds with a draft of the questionnaire and a preliminary census roster
of approximately 460 labs at the beginning of the project. During the first quarter of
2015, the recipient of funds will begin collecting data on the workload and operations
of federal, state, county, and municipal crime labs in 2014, including budgets,
staffing levels, types of analyses performed, backlogs for forensic services, and
accreditations.
BJS anticipates making one award for a 24-month period under this solicitation, with
an award date on or after October 1, 2013. BJS is authorized to issue this
solicitation under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, Section
302.
Deadline: All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on Monday, July 8, 2013.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are national, regional, state, or local public and private
entities, including for-profit and nonprofit organizations, faith-based and community
organizations, institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of
higher education), federally recognized Indian tribal governments as determined by the
Secretary of the Interior, and units of local government that support initiatives to
improve the functioning of the criminal justice system.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Matthew
Durose, BJS Statistician, by telephone at 202-307-0765 or by e-mail at
askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "CPFFCL14" in the subject line.
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BJS-2013-3661
The Bureau of Justice Statistic's (BJS) Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP)
collects, standardizes, and publishes statistics about the federal response to crime
and the operation of the federal criminal justice system. BJS seeks an agent to
implement the Federal Justice Statistics Analytic Resource Center (FJSARC) project.
This project is designed to provide scientific and technical support to BJS for
methodological research, statistical analysis, and reporting of findings using data
from the FJSP. The FJSP produces annual, cross-sectional data files (Standard Analysis
Files, or SAFs), which represent the federal criminal case processing stages from
arrest and prosecution through pretrial release, adjudication, sentencing, appeals,
and corrections. This collection is also used as the basis to link data files and
permit analysis of offender cohorts as they progress through the federal criminal case
process.
The proposed project will identify and retain the support of substantive and
methodological experts as affiliates to assist in project tasks. The two priority
areas are 1) demonstrating how the federal data, especially the linked data, can be
used to address pressing substantive questions; and 2) assessing the primary
shortcomings of the FJSP data for federal criminal justice statistical reporting
purposes, and proposing and implementing methodological solutions to address these
issues.
Deadline: All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on Monday, July 8, 2013.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit
organizations (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations), faith based
and community organizations, institutions of higher learning (including tribal
institutions of higher education. For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any
profit or management fee).
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Mark
Motivans, BJS Statistician, by telephone at 202-307-0765, or by e-mail at
askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "2013FJSARC" in the subject line.
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BJS-2013-3617
BJS seeks an agent to execute the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
Instrument Redesign and Testing Project. The project is designed to provide scientific
and technical support for the redesign and testing of the NCVS roster control card,
crime screener (NCVS-1), and crime incident (NCVS-2) instruments in support of BJS's
efforts related to increasing the efficiency, reliability, and use of the NCVS. In
addition, the project will evaluate the use and content of the NCVS supplements.
Deadline: All applications are due by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday, June 11, 2013.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit
organizations, faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher
learning, and consortia with demonstrated organizational and community-based
experience working with American Indian and Alaska Native communities, including
tribal for-profit (commercial) and nonprofit organizations, tribal colleges and
universities, and tribal consortia.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Michael
Planty, Chief, Victimization Statistics Unit, by telephone at 202-307-0765, or by
e-mail at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "NCVSIRTP" in the subject line.
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