Monday, February 22, 2010

NIJ Funding for the Analysis of Existing Data

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is requesting proposals to reproduce, replicate, or extend previous findings and conduct original research extending data from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). NACJD houses quantitative and qualitative data from NIJ-funded research and provides online access to downloadable, machine-readable (SPSS, SAS, or ASCII) files, as well as data dictionaries, study abstracts, and in limited cases MapInfo or ESRI geographic data. The archive is maintained by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan and is supported by NIJ.

NIJ is interested in secondary analysis that enhances understanding of crime and informs criminal justice policy and practice in the United States. Research proposals should seek either to replicate original findings or, preferably, extend research by testing new hypotheses with existing data. NIJ will give preference to research that asks compelling crime and justice questions rather than research that merely furthers statistical methods or technical refinement of data sets.

Amount: $35,000

Date due: April 16, 2010

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