OpportunityTitle: FY 2017 BJS Faculty Research Fellowship Program in Criminal Justice Statistics
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Eligible applicants are non-profit professional or scientific membership organizations 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 organization should also have a history of promoting criminal justice education, scholarly research and policy analysis. The organization&#146;s membership must include scholars who are national in scope and multidisciplinary in orientation; research professionals in agencies from all sectors of the criminal justice system; and, students pursuing studies in criminal justice or related social sciences areas. Foreign governments, organizations, and institutions of higher education are not eligible to apply.
Description: 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.
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GrantorContactText: askbjs@usdoj.gov&lt;br/&gt;Gerard.Ramker@usdoj.gov&lt;br/&gt;