Research into Desistance from Crime, FY 2019
Solicitation Title: Research into Desistance from Crime, FY 2019
Funding Amount: Up to $2 million
Sponsor Deadline: Monday, April 29, 2019
Solicitation Link: https://nij.gov/funding/Documents/solicitations/NIJ-2019-15527.pdf
Solicitation Number: CFDA 16.560 | NIJ-2019-15527
Overview
<p>With this solicitation, NIJ seeks to build upon its past research efforts to understand and aid in accelerating the process of desistance from crime. Applicants should propose research projects that have clear implications for criminal justice policy and practice in the United States. NIJ encourages applicants to submit proposals for innovative approaches to advance the field’s conceptualization of desistance, novel ways of understanding the processes underlying desistance from crime, and integrating desistance into criminal justice practice and policy.</p> <p>Applications proposing research involving partnerships with criminal justice or other agencies, are to include a strong letter of support, signed by an appropriate decision-making authority from each proposed, partnering agency. A letter of support must include the partnering agency’s acknowledgment that de-identified data provided through this project will be archived by the awardee in the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) at the conclusion of the award (see Goals, Objectives, Deliverables, and Expected Scholarly Products below). If selected for award, applicants will be expected to have a formal agreement in place with partnering agencies by January 1, 2020. That agreement must include provisions to meet the data archiving requirements of the award.</p> <p>In rare circumstances, for example where law prohibits the archiving of agency data, NIJ may agree to a successful applicant creating and archiving an appropriate synthetic dataset. Those circumstances will be rare, decided by NIJ on a case-by-case basis, and will require extensive documentation and justification for exceptions to be made.</p>
Other Information:<p>NIJ anticipates up to $2 million will be available in FY 2019 to fund multiple grant awards. Successful applicants will be expected to complete the work proposed within a five-year period of performance. NIJ is particularly interested in receiving applications that will produce:</p> <p>• Research on the dynamic process of desistance that considers changes in individual offenders’ psychological states, developmental capacities, life events, and social contexts; and how these changes relate to changes in offending over time.<br>• Research to better understand the underlying mechanisms inherent in the process of desistance from crime — in particular whether and how these mechanisms may vary by race/ethnicity, gender, neighborhood context, and the like.<br>• Research on desistance from crime for subgroups of offenders, or those who specialize in specific crime types, such as burglars, drug offenders, or violent offenders. <br>• Research that includes longer-term follow-up periods for previously collected data, or evaluations of programs that demonstrate promise for reducing offending. • <br>• Research on the relationship between the length of sentencing, length of incarceration and supervision on desistance from crime. This line of research should disentangle the distinct effects related to the severity of prior criminal histories, sentence length, and desistence factors, such as the aging out process, that influence the likelihood of recidivism.<br>• Formative evaluations of criminal justice programs or practices that fully incorporate desistance principles into their logic models and theories of change.<br>• Research that advances the understanding of strategies that might enhance the likelihood of desistance, including the dynamic factors that can be influenced through interventions.</p>Last Updated:
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