Assistance program
National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants
$473.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants;Dissemination of Technical Information
- CFDA number
- 16.560
- What it does
- GOAL: Foster the development of new knowledge and tools that can be applied to reduce crime and advance justice, particularly at the state and local level. OBJECTIVE: • Develop, demonstrate and evaluate programs and practices relevant to criminal justice, juvenile justice and crime victims’ services outcomes. • Identify and analyze the causes and correlates of crime • Improve the functioning of the criminal and juvenile justice systems • Develop new methods for the prevention and reduction of crime • Develop new methods for to detect, investigate and prosecute crime • Enhance the justice research infrastructure Performance measures for this assistance listing are: 1.Quality of the research as demonstrated by the scholarly products that result in whole or in part from work funded under the NIJ award, such as published, peer-reviewed, scientific journal articles, and/or (as appropriate for the funded project) law review journal articles, book chapter(s) or book(s) in the academic press, technological prototypes, patented inventions, or similar scientific products. 2. Increase the number of researchers across a wide-range of disciplines working to provide objective, evidence-based solutions to criminal justice challenges, in large extent through fellowship programs such as the NIJ Graduate Research Fellowship program, Visiting Fellows, and the New Investigator/Early Career Research Program 3. Number and impact of scholarly publications
- Who benefits
- State and local governments; private nonprofit organizations, public nonprofit organizations, profit organizations, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and qualified individuals.
- Who applies
- The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is authorized to make grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with States, units of local government, for-profit organizations, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and qualified individuals. Applicants from the Territories of the United States, and federally recognized Indian tribal governments that perform law enforcement functions, are also eligible to participate in this program. Certain qualified individuals may be eligible to apply in response to some solicitations under this program, as described in the solicitation document. Federal agencies may be eligible to apply for funding in response to a solicitation under this program, if the solicitation specifies that Federal agencies are eligible. If an award is made to a Federal agency, it will be through an Interagency Agreement (IAA) with the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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- Committed through this program
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- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments