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This program announcement describes the guidelines and requirements of the FY 2016
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 are 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.
Deadline: All registrations and applications are due by 5:00 p.m. eastern time on March 31, 2016.
Eligibility: State SACs are the only entities eligible to apply for funds under the SJS program.
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 email at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include SJSSAC16 in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 241K)
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BJS-2016-9331
The criminal history information system is maintained in the United States by tens
of
thousands of law enforcement agencies, courts, corrections systems, and state and
federal repositories. It is used as a primary information resource by criminal
justice
professionals for a wide variety of reasons, by others to conduct background checks,
and by researchers to understand the nature of criminal careers and the effect of
interventions on criminal behavior. Little is known about how the criminal history
system in the United States compares with those in other industrialized nations.
This
project will help fill this information gap and provide insight into potential
improvements of the U.S. system.
Under section 302 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, BJS is
authorized
to "provide for improvements in the accuracy, quality, timeliness, immediate
accessibility, and integration of State and tribal criminal history and related
records, and support statistical research for critical analysis of the improvement
and
utilization of criminal history records." That statute also authorizes BJS 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 to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on May 16, 2016.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are national, regional, state, or local public and private
entities, including for-profit and nonprofit organizations, tribal nonprofit or for-
profit 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 Matt Durose,
Statistician and Program Manager, by telephone at 202-307-0765 or by email at
askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "CCHIS" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 356K)
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BJS-2016-9005
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking applications to fund one or more BJS
Visiting Fellows to work in its Criminal Justice Statistics Programs. The purpose of
this program is to address substantive, methodological, and analytic issues to enhance
or inform BJS statistical programs; support the scholarly use of BJS data collections;
and expand the body of policy-relevant research that uses these data to further
knowledge about and understanding of the operation of the criminal justice system.
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 May 23, 2016.
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 "2016VFCJSP" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 496K)
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BJS-2016-9840
The Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI), formerly
known
as the Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities, collects and
analyzes data from state and federal prisoners and produces national statistics of
the
U.S. prison population. BJS is seeking an agent to implement the Survey of Prison
Inmates Statistical Support Center (SPISSC) project. The SPISSC will provide
scientific
and technical support for statistical and methodological research, statistical
analyses, data linkage, documentation, and dissemination services in support of the
SPI. It will also enhance the utility and relevance of BJS's statistical reporting
program from the SPI and other federal sources of data that complement the SPI;
increase the use of SPI data by various stakeholders, including by researchers to
focus
on key challenges in the correctional field and strategies for dealing with them;
and
provide nonstatistical audiences with translational products to increase the use of
these statistics by the larger community of stakeholders and practitioners. The
SPISSC
will assist BJS in expanding its capacity to analyze SPI data and leverage
administrative records to supplement the survey data, document the analyses and
expand
on the survey documentation, and increase the understanding and use of the SPI data
by
the broader research and stakeholder communities, therefore increasing the breadth
of
substantive issues that the SPI addresses.
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, 2016.
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 Lauren Glaze,
Statistician, by telephone at 202-305-9628, or by email at Lauren.Glaze@usdoj.gov.
Include "SPISSC" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 245K) | Questions and Answers (PDF 63K)
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BJS-2016-9920
In connection with its National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) Initiative, the
Bureau
of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks proposals from state Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)
Programs to expand the state's capacity to report incident-based crime data to the
FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). BJS has partnered with the
FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, which established and
maintains the NIBRS program, for this project. The FBI has formally announced its
intention to establish NIBRS as the law enforcement (LE) crime data reporting standard
for the nation, with a complementary plan to retire the Summary Reporting System (SRS)
of the UCR Program. This will result in an increase in the number of local LE agencies
reporting data to NIBRS. The typical mechanism by which a local agency contributes data
to NIBRS is through its "state pipeline," where agencies report their incident-based
crime data to the NIBRS-certified UCR Program in their respective state, and then the
state agency sends data from all of the state's contributing agencies to the FBI. The
FBI advocates the use of the state pipeline for crime data reporting, and BJS supports
this. Transitioning local agencies to NIBRS reporting requires the state pipeline to be
enhanced, to ensure state UCR Programs are capable of receiving and processing local
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 3, 2016.
Eligibility: In general, BJS is authorized to make grants to, or enter into contracts or
cooperative agreements with, states, units of local government, federally recognized
Indian tribal governments that perform law enforcement functions, nonprofit and for-
profit organizations, institutions of higher education, and certain qualified
individuals. Please see page 1 of the full solicitation for additional eligibility
information.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Alexia
Cooper, NCS-X Program Manager, by telephone at 202-307-0765, or by email at
askbjs@usdoj.gov.
Include "NCS-X State" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 269K) | Teleconference - April 25, 2016 (Audio) | Teleconference - April 28, 2016 (Audio) | Teleconference transcripts (Zip format 65K)
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BJS-2016-9013
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking applications under its Graduate
Research Fellowship (GRF) Program. This program provides awards to accredited
universities for doctoral research that uses criminal justice data or statistical
series and focuses on crime, violence, and other criminal justice-related topics. BJS
invests in doctoral education by supporting universities that sponsor students who
demonstrate the potential to complete doctoral degree programs successfully in
disciplines relevant to the mission of BJS, and who are in the final stages of graduate
study. The primary goal of this solicitation is to increase the pool of researchers
using criminal justice statistical data generated by BJS, thereby contributing
solutions that better prevent and control crime and help ensure the fair and impartial
administration of criminal justice in the United States.
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 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 grant to cover a doctoral student fellowship. Awards are
anticipated to be made to successful applicant institutions on behalf of the sponsored
doctoral student. Awards will not exceed the amount of $45,000. Awarded funds are to be
used to cover all allowable expenses over the project period. Additional funds will not
be provided. If the doctoral student's dissertation is not completed and delivered to
BJS within 5 years from the date of the fellowship award, the academic institution may
be required to return the full award amount to BJS. The Director of BJS will make final
award decisions.
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 Monday, May 2, 2016.
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 apply.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Dr. Gerard F.
Ramker, Deputy Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics by telephone at 202-307-0765, or
by email at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "2016GRFPCJS" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 235K)
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BJS-2016-9544
BJS is seeking applications for funding to design a data collection program that
surveys public defenders. This study will continue BJS's efforts to collect data on
indigent defense in the United States. It will extend efforts of the Census of Public
Defender Offices (CPDO) and National Survey of Indigent Defense Providers (NSIDS) to
enhance understanding of the work done by public defenders. While the CPDO and NSIDS
were conducted at the agency level, the proposed new data collection effort will survey
the public defenders who provide services to adults and juveniles charged with a
criminal offense.
The successful applicant will produce (1) a report documenting the information need of
the field that could be served by a survey of public defenders and (2) a report
proposing a sampling plan to yield nationally representative statistics. Based on these
reports, the successful applicant will design and test a survey instrument that
provides information on a range of topics (e.g., provider demographics, professional
background, caseloads, case outcomes, support services, needs, and emerging issues).
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 23, 2016.
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 Suzanne M.
Strong, Statistician and Program Manager, by telephone at 202-307-0765 or by email at
askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "SPDDS16" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 235K)
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BJS-2016-9333
Through this competitive solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is
seeking a professional or scholarly society to administer a BJS-sponsored Faculty
Research Fellowship Program. This fellowship program aims to increase the pool of
researchers who use criminal justice statistical data generated by BJS, thereby
contributing solutions that better prevent and control crime and help ensure the fair
and impartial administration of criminal justice in the United States. The research
fellowships envisioned will be relatively small-scale projects that can be completed
within 6 months.
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, 2016.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are professional or scholarly societies based in the United States
whose members pursue scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the
measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and
delinquency. The entity should also have a history of promoting criminal justice
education, scholarly research, and policy analysis.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Dr. Gerard F.
Ramker, Deputy Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics, by telephone at 202-307-0765, or
by email at askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "2016FRFPCJS" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 399K)
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BJS-2016-9016
BJS is publishing this notice to announce the continuation of the National Criminal
History Improvement Program (NCHIP) in Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, identify the program
priorities, and provide information on application requirements.
The NCHIP grant program aims 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:
- Providing direct financial and technical assistance to states and tribes to
improve their criminal records systems and other related systems in an effort to
support background checks.
- Ensuring the infrastructure is developed to connect criminal history records
systems to the state record repository or appropriate federal agency record system and
ensuring records are accessible through the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI)
records systems.
- Providing the training and technical assistance needed to ensure that records
systems are developed and managed to conform to FBI standards, and appropriate
technologies, while ensuring that contributing agencies adhere to the highest standards
of practice with respect to privacy and confidentiality.
- Using systematic evaluation and standardized performance measurement and statistics
to assess progress made in improving national records holdings and background check
systems.
Deadline: All applications are due to be submitted and in receipt of a successful validation message in Grants.gov by 11:59 time p.m. eastern time on April 28, 2016.
Eligibility: The NCHIP application must be submitted by the agency designated by the governor to
administer the NCHIP program or a federally recognized Indian tribe. States and tribes
may choose to submit applications as part of a multi-state consortium, multi-tribe
consortium, or other entity. In such cases, please contact the BJS program manager for
further information.
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 "NCHIP16" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 281K)
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BJS-2016-9017
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (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) 2016, identify the program
priorities,
and provide information on application requirements.
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 10, 2016.
Eligibility: Applications must be submitted by (a) the agency designated by the Governor to
administer the NCHIP program, (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 governments.
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 "2016 NARIP" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 285K)
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BJS-2016-9980
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks proposals from local law enforcement
(LE)
agencies with 750 or more sworn officers that were selected for the sample of
agencies
included in the National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) to report incident-based
crime data to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), either
through their state NIBRS-certified Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program or
directly
to the FBI. BJS has
partnered with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division,
which
established and maintains the NIBRS
program, for this project. The FBI has formally announced its intention to establish
NIBRS as the LE crime data reporting standard for the nation, with a complementary
plan
to retire the Summary Reporting System (SRS) of the UCR Program. This will result in
a
large increase in the number of local LE agencies reporting incident-based data to
the
state UCR Program and to the FBI. The typical mechanism by which a local agency
contributes data to NIBRS is through its "state pipeline," where agencies report
their
state-specific incident-based crime data to the NIBRS-certified UCR Program in their
respective state, and the state agency then sends the data from all of the state's
contributing agencies to the FBI. The FBI advocates the use of the state pipeline
for
crime data reporting, a view that BJS supports. For instances in which the state is
not
able to receive incident-based data from local LE agencies, the FBI is willing to
receive the incident-based data directly from the local agencies until the state
pipeline is in place. The plan to transition local agencies to incident-based
reporting
(IBR) requires that local LE agencies work closely with the state UCR Program to
ensure
the incident-based data submitted by local agencies meet the requirements of the
state
program. Enhancing the ability of the largest LE agencies in the nation (those with
750
or more sworn officers) to submit incident-based data to their state UCR Program or
to
the FBI directly is an effort jointly supported by BJS and the FBI's CJIS Division.
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, 2016.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are local LE agencies with 750 or more sworn officers that (1)
currently do not report incident-based data to their state UCR Program or to the
FBI's
NIBRS and (2) have had a readiness assessment completed through the NCS-X
Initiative.
Please see page 1 of the full solicitation for additional eligibility information.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Alexia
Cooper,
NCS-X Program Manager, by telephone at 202-307-0765, or by email at
askbjs@usdoj.gov.
Include "NCS-X Local" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 440K) | Teleconference - April 25, 2016 (Audio) | Teleconference - April 28, 2016 (Audio) | Teleconference transcripts (Zip format 87K)
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BJS-2016-10080
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), working in partnership with the Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), seeks an applicant to conduct
methodological work that will develop improved strategies to produce national
estimates
of children's exposure to violence. The work performed under this solicitation
involves
reviewing and assessing the recent administrations of OJJDP's National Survey of
Children's Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) and making recommendations on items that
will
be included in the survey instrument, frame development, sampling plan, modes of
data
collection, strategies for reducing nonresponse bias, reference periods for trend
analysis, and viability of supporting various subgroup estimates. Work will include
(1)
reviewing previous approaches used to collect NatSCEV data, (2) reviewing current
literature on collecting information on sensitive topics and from hard-to-reach
populations, including young children, (3) analyzing data collected in previous
NatSCEV
administrations, (4) developing and testing appropriate measures of exposure to
violence, (5) designing alternative data collection strategies and methodologies to
increase the utility of the data, (6) conducting cognitive and pilot tests to
evaluate
the proposed alternatives, and (7) providing detailed cost estimates for
administering
the proposed approaches.
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 24, 2016.
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 Jennifer
Bronson, Statistician and Program Manager, by telephone at 202-616-8937 or by email at
askbjs@usdoj.gov. Include "NatSCEV2016" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 440K) | NatSCEV Youth Report Survey (PDF 1M) | NatSCEV I Methods Report (PDF 788K) | NatSCEV II Methods Report Final (PDF 638K) | NatSCEV III Methodology Report (PDF 865K)
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BJS-2016-9580
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is announcing a public solicitation for the
continuation of the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP). The FJSP is managed by
BJS and serves as the national clearinghouse of administrative federal criminal case
processing data. Under this program, administrative data are received from six federal
justice agencies each year and are standardized, maintained, linked, analyzed, and
archived by the contractor (currently under Award #2013-MU-CX-K057). The FJSP produces
annual, cross-sectional data files (standard analysis files or SAFs) that represent the
stages from arrest and prosecution through pretrial release, adjudication, sentencing,
appeals, and corrections. The improved availability of identifiers in federal data
sources allows for the systematic linking of case information across justice agencies
for statistical reporting. The dyad link files are a FJSP resource that enables
analysis of linked cross-sectional cohorts of suspects and defendants as their matters
or cases move through the federal criminal justice system.
The FJSP is a resource for studying a variety of topics in the federal criminal justice
system. Statistics generated from the FJSP help inform and shape federal criminal
justice policy, reflect the performance of federal justice agencies, and inform debates
about federal criminal justice policy and budget allocation decisions. Tasks under this
award will include receiving 2016 to 2020 datasets from six federal agencies,
converting data into SAF format using SAS statistical software code, ensuring data
quality and confidentiality standards, and updating the dyad link files to include all
available data. The recipient will provide technical assistance to BJS and others who
use FJSP data and will update and expand the BJS federal online query tool. The
recipient will also prepare and submit public-use data files and codebooks to the
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). For each year of the project, and
with BJS's approval, the recipient of funds will produce two special reports on issues
of timely substantive importance and a working paper on a methodological topic to
improve the statistical measurement of the federal response to crime. The successful
applicant will receive all relevant data, computer code, and documentation developed to
date by the FJSP to create the SAFs, dyad link files, the BJS online query tool, and
files submitted to NACJD.
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 6, 2016.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are for-profit faith-based and community organizations, and
institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education).
BJS may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in
future fiscal years, depending on the merit of the applications and the availability of
appropriations, among other considerations.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Mark Motivans,
BJS Statistician, by telephone at 202-307-0765 or by email at askbjs@usdoj.gov.
Include "FJSP16" in the subject line.
Full solicitation in PDF format (PDF 232K) | Questions and Answers (PDF 10K)
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BJS-2016-9860
On September 4, 2003, President George W. Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act
of 2003 (Public Law 108-79). The act requires BJS to "carry out, for each calendar
year, a comprehensive statistical review and analysis of the incidence and effects of
prison rape." The act further instructs BJS to collect survey data: "...the Bureau
shall...use surveys and other statistical studies of current and former inmates...."
The law was passed in part to overcome a shortage of available research on the
incidence and prevalence of sexual violence in correctional facilities.
To implement the act, BJS developed the National Prison Rape Statistics Program (NPRS),
which includes four separate data collection efforts: the Survey on Sexual Violence
(SSV), National Inmate Survey (NIS), National Survey of Youth in Custody (NSYC), and
National Former Prisoner Survey (NFPS).
Each of these collections is independent and, while not directly comparable, they
provide measures of the prevalence and characteristics of sexual assault in
correctional facilities. The SSV collects information about incidents of sexual
violence reported to and investigated by adult and juvenile correctional authorities
and characteristics of substantiated incidents. The NIS collects allegations of sexual
assault self-reported by adult and juvenile inmates in correctional facilities. The
NSYC gathers self-reported sexual assault data from youth in juvenile correctional
facilities. The NFPS measures allegations of sexual assault experienced during a
person's last incarceration, as reported by former inmates under active supervision.
This award will provide funding through a cooperative agreement for a collection agent
to administer the third round of the NSYC (NSYC-3). Project activities include drawing
a national sample of state-operated juvenile facilities and locally or privately
operated facilities that house adjudicated youth under state contract; administering
the survey to sampled youth in these facilities; and conducting all data collection,
analyses, and reporting activities.
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 13, 2016.
Eligibility: Eligible applicants are for-profit organizations, nonprofit organizations, faith-based
and community organizations, institutions of higher education, and associations with
demonstrated organizational and community-based experience working with American Indian
and Alaska Native communities, including tribal for-profit and nonprofit
organizations, tribal colleges and universities, and tribal consortia.
Contact Information: For assistance with any other requirements of this solicitation, contact Allen J. Beck,
BJS Senior Statistical Advisor, by telephone at 202-616-3277 or by email at
AskBJS@usdoj.gov. Include "NSYC-3" in the subject line.
Full solicitation and PDF format (PDF 265K)
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