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Deaths in Custody Reporting Program and Annual Survey of Jails, 2016–2020
This marks the first time the two programs will be competed together.
The ASJ and DCRP are BJS's flagship data collections measuring the size and composition of local jail populations each year. The two collections complement each other by obtaining administrative data to describe and compare the jail population over time. The ASJ, a sample survey, is conducted in years between the Census of Jail Facilities and is used to estimate the number and characteristics of jail inmates.
The DCRP data collection has two components. From local jails, BJS collects individual-level data on inmates who died in jails and the circumstances of their deaths, as well as jail-level population data. The population component of the DCRP is used to produce jail population data and calculate jail mortality rates. From state prisons, BJS collects individual-level data on decedents only. Prison population data are obtained from existing BJS prison databases.
BJS is authorized to issue this solicitation under 42 U.S.C. § 3732(c).
Deadline: All applications are due to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on May 11, 2015.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are national, regional, state, or local public and private
entities, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, faith-based and community
organizations, and 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 Margaret
Noonan, BJS Statistician and Program Manager, by telephone at 202-307-0765, or by email
at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "DCRP ASJ" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 580K) | Questions and Answers (PDF 63K) | Solicitation Change Sheet (PDF 220K)
Annual Surveys of Probation and Parole, 2015-2018
The ASPP are two separate data collections, independently referred to as the Annual Probation Survey and Annual Parole Survey. Since 1980, the ASPP have collected aggregate data on the number of persons supervised on probation or parole (i.e., post- custody community supervision), together referred to as the community supervision population. The ASPP obtain aggregate data from administrative records maintained by state probation and parole agencies; municipal, county, or court agencies; and the federal system. The ASPP are core BJS data collections and are the only national data collections that describe the size, change, movements, outcomes, and characteristics of the community supervision populations at the national, federal, and state levels. Together with data from the National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) Program, which collects counts of persons incarcerated in federal and state prisons, and data from the Annual Survey of Jails, which collects counts of persons held in local jails, ASPP data are used to estimate the total number of persons supervised by the adult correctional systems in the United States. Collectively, these data collections are also critical for tracking the level and change in the correctional populations over time and enhancing the understanding of the flow of offenders through and eventually out of the criminal justice system.
Because of the needs for and uses of the ASPP data, it is imperative that these data are reliable, of high quality, and are representative of the entire targeted population. Therefore, through this award, BJS intends to enhance these aspects of the ASPP.
BJS is authorized to issue this solicitation under 42 U.S.C. § 3732(c).
Deadline: All applications are due to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on May 18, 2015.
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 Laura
Maruschak, BJS Statistician and Program Manager, by telephone at 202-307-0765, or by
email at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "ASPP" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 376K)
FY 2015 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)
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 ensuring the nationwide implementation of criminal justice and noncriminal justice background check systems. Achieving this goal is contingent on accomplishing four objectives:
State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers, 2015
Survey of Inmates in Local Jails (SILJ): Design and Testing
FY 2015 NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP)
The NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007, Pub. L. 110-180 (NIAA or the Act), was
signed into law on January 8, 2008, in the wake of the April 2007 shooting tragedy at
Virginia Tech. The Virginia Tech shooter was able to purchase firearms from a Federal
Firearms Licensee (FFL) because information about his prohibiting mental health history
was not available to the NICS, and the system was therefore unable to deny the transfer
of the firearms used in the shootings. The NIAA seeks to address the gap in information
available to NICS about such prohibiting mental health adjudications and commitments,
and other prohibiting factors. Filling these information gaps will better enable the
system to operate as intended to keep guns out of the hands of persons prohibited by
federal or state law from receiving or possessing firearms. The automation of records
will also reduce delays for law-abiding persons to purchase firearms.
Deadline: All applications are due to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on May 7, 2015.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to (a) the agency designated by the Governor to
administer the NARIP, (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 jurisdictions court system, or (c) federally recognized Indian tribal
governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior.
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 email at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "2015 NARIP" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 159K)
National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) program and National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP), 2015-2019
The NPS and NCRP are BJS's flagship data collections measuring the size and composition of state and federal prison populations on an annual basis. The two collections complement each other by obtaining aggregate and detailed individual-level information on prisoners, which is used to describe and compare the prison population over time. The NPS collects aggregate counts of the male and female custody and jurisdictional prison populations as of December 31 each year. State departments of corrections (DOCs) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) use their administrative records to tally their prison populations by jurisdiction, types of prison admissions and releases during the past year, race or Hispanic origin, and capacity of the facilities that hold prisoners in their custody. NPS also provides annual information on the number of confirmed cases of HIV/AIDS and current testing policies for these conditions. NPS has been collected annually since 1926, and these data are used in BJS's Prisoners series and Corrections Populations in the United States series bulletins.
Through the NCRP, BJS collects individual (or offender) level data on prisoners entering or leaving the custody of state prison systems and post-custody community supervision programs (PCCS; formerly known as parole). The NCRP data, collected annually since 1983, are derived from state prison and PCCS administrative records and currently consist of five separate files for each year: prison admissions, census of state prisoners on December 31, prison releases, entry to PCCS programs, and exits from PCCS programs. A major improvement in NCRP data in the past 5 years has been to link the prison and PCCS records into terms for the majority of states submitting data. A term is defined as the period from admission to release. BJS uses these data to study a wide variety of special topics in corrections recidivism of state prisoners (by linking the NCRP data to criminal history records), prisoner reentry, aging of the prison population, trends in state PCCS, outcomes of PCCS supervision, and other issues. Additionally, BJS uses these data to support its ongoing efforts to study changes in the racial and offense composition of national corrections populations, to study movements and transitions between stages of the corrections process, and to compare differences among states correctional populations.
BJS is authorized to issue this solicitation under 42 U.S.C. § 3732(c).
Deadline: All applications are due to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on April 24, 2015.
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, 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 Elizabeth Ann
Carson, Ph.D., BJS Statistician, by telephone at 202-616-3496, or by e-mail at
askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include NPS NCRP 2015-2019 in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 225K)
FY 2015 Graduate Research Fellowship Program for Criminal Justice Statistics
Applicant institutions sponsoring doctoral students are eligible to apply only if the
doctoral research dissertation has direct implications for criminal justice policy and
practice in the United States. BJS encourages institutions to consider doctoral
students from social and behavioral sciences, mathematics, or statistics academic
disciplines for their applications. Applicant institutions are strongly encouraged to
sponsor minority and female student candidates. Awards are anticipated to be made to
successful applicant institutions in the form of a cooperative agreement to cover a
fellowship for the sponsored doctoral student. Each fellowship potentially provides up
to 3 years of support, usable over a 5-year period. For each year of support, BJS
provides the degree-granting institution a stipend of $35,000, usable toward the
student's salary and related costs, and up to $15,000 to cover the student's tuition
and fees, research expenses, and related costs. If the doctoral student's dissertation
is not completed and delivered to BJS within the 5-year period, the academic
institution will be required to return the full award amount to BJS. Final award
decisions will be made by the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Deadline: All applications are due to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on June 10, 2015.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to degree-granting educational institutions in the
United States. To be eligible, the institution must be fully accredited by one of the
regional institutional accreditation agencies recognized by the U.S. Secretary of
Education. Historically Black Colleges and Universities are encouraged to consider
applying.
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 email at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "2015GRFPCJS" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 500K)
FY 2015 State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers Technical Assistance Program
Under section 302 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, BJS is authorized
to "provide for the development of justice information systems programs and assistance
to the States and units of local government relating to the collection, analysis, or
dissemination of justice statistics."
Deadline: All applications are due to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on May 26, 2015.
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 Stephanie L.
Burroughs, Program Manager, by telephone at 202-307-0765, or by email at
askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "2015 SJSSACTA" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 554K)
Census of Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies
Survey of State Attorney General Offices
The award recipient will develop three surveys for assessing activities in state AG
offices and will field the first two surveys. For each survey, the successful
applicant
will (1) develop a survey instrument on the topics of interest, (2) pretest the
instrument, (3) administer the first two surveys, and (4) provide the resulting
research database and all accompanying documentation to BJS. In addition, near the
end
of the project period, the successful applicant will produce a report that assesses
the
relevance, validity, and utility of the data collected compared to the cost of
collecting it. The report should present recommendations to BJS regarding the future
content of the SSAGO program and the frequency of its data collections.
Deadline: All applications are due to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on June 1, 2015.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are national, regional, state, or local public and private
entities, including for-profit and nonprofit organizations, tribal for-profit and
tribal nonprofit organizations, faith-based and community organizations,
institutions
of higher education, tribal institutions of higher education, federally recognized
Indian tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Tracey
Kyckelhahn, BJS Statistician, by telephone at 202-307-0765 or by email at
askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "SSAGO" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF)
FY 2015 National Criminal History Improvement Technical Assistance Program (NCHIP TA)
Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2016-2019
Authorizing Legislation: 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" to collect and analyze criminal
justice statistics. BJS is also authorized to "collect and analyze statistical
information, concerning the operations of the criminal justice system at the federal,
state, tribal, and local levels."
Deadline: All applications are due to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on May 26, 2015.
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, federally recognized Indian tribal
governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, and units of local
government that support initiatives for improving the functioning of the criminal
justice system.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Todd D. Minton,
BJS Statistician, by telephone at 202-307-0765, or by email at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include
"SJIC" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF)
2015 National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) Implementation Assistance Program: Phase I - Support for State Programs
This will result in an increase in the number of local law enforcement agencies
reporting data to NIBRS. The typical mechanism by which a local agency contributes data
to NIBRS is through its "state pipeline," whereby agencies report their incident-based
crime data to the NIBRS-certified UCR program in their respective state, and the state
agency then sends the data from all the state's contributing agencies to the FBI. The
FBI advocates the use of the "state pipeline" for crime data reporting. The plan to
transition local agencies to NIBRS reporting requires enhancing the "state pipeline" to
ensure state Uniform Crime Reporting programs are capable of receiving and processing
local incident-based crime data. Enhancing states' capacity to receive and transmit
NIBRS data is an effort jointly supported by BJS and by the FBI's Criminal Justice
Information Services Division (CJIS). Funding under this solicitation will support (1)
state programs that are transitioning from a Summary Reporting System to a system
capable to receive state-specific incident-based crime data and report it in the NIBRS
format to the FBI, (2) the establishment of a new state program capable of receiving
state-specific, incident-based crime data and reporting it in the NIBRS format to the
FBI, or (3) the expansion of the capabilities of an NIBRS-certified state program to
receive and process more incident-based crime data.
Deadline: All applications are due to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on June 30, 2015.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are limited to (1) the 28 state Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)
Programs identified in the appendix to this solicitation or (2) a state agency in
Indiana, Mississippi, or New Mexico (states that currently do not have a state UCR
program) that will be officially designated as responsible for collecting
incident-based data from local law enforcement agencies and reporting those data to the
FBI's NIBRS.
Contact Information: For assistance with other requirements of this solicitation, contact Erica Smith,
Chief, Law Enforcement Statistics by telephone at 202-307-0765, or by e-mail at
askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "NCS-X" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 648K) | Audio of Teleconference 5/12/2015 (Other) | Transcript of Teleconference 5/12/2015 (PDF 92K)
FY 2015 Law Enforcement Core Statistics Program (LECS)
The LECS will incorporate 3 of BJS's core law enforcement programs: the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey, the Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), and the Census of Federal Law Enforcement Officers (FLEO). The development and implementation of these collections will be guided by a framework that integrates concepts of police performance into an establishment survey context.
As part of the LECS program, this 51-month project includes (1) fielding the LEMAS in
2016, (2) fielding a LEMAS supplement in 2017 on LEAs' use of body-worn cameras, (3)
fielding the CSLLEA and the FLEO in 2018, (4) developing and testing a set of LEMAS
supplemental survey instruments, and (5) disseminating findings to the public through
research reports and a BJS web-based analytic data tool.
Deadline: All applications are due to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on June 22, 2015.
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, 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 Shelley S.
Hyland, Statistician and Program Manager, by telephone at 202-307-0765, or by email at
AskBJS@usdoj.gov. Include "LECS" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 575K)
2015 Visiting Fellows: Criminal Justice Statistics 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 or
programs.
Deadline: All applications are due to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on June 16, 2015.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are individuals who have a nationally recognized research
portfolio
and considerable expertise in their area of proposed research. They should be willing
to commit a substantial portion of their time over at least a 12-month period to
undertake analyses of 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 email at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "2015VFCJSP" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 542K)
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