NIJ FY24 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System

Ceiling: $2,000,000
Applications Due: Closed
Federal
USDOJ-OJP-NIJ (National Institute of Justice)

Description

With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for two categories of investigator-initiated research: (1) studies that examine how observed racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system might be reduced through public policy intervention at any point during the administration of justice and (2) studies that advance knowledge and practice, policy, or both regarding the intersections of race, ethnicity, crime, and justice within the United States. With this solicitation, NIJ seeks applications for investigator-initiated research in two priority
areas from two different categories of investigators.
The priority areas are: (1) studies that examine how observed racial and ethnic disparities in the
justice system might be reduced through public policy intervention at any point during the
administration of justice; and (2) studies that advance knowledge and practice, policy, or both
regarding the intersections of race, ethnicity, crime, and justice within the United States.
The two categories of investigators are:
Category 1: W.E.B. Du Bois Scholars — Researchers who are advanced in their careers
(awarded an academic or research doctorate terminal degree at least seven years prior to
December 31, 2023) may apply for grants for research, evaluation, and mentoring of lessexperienced researchers.
Category 2: W.E.B. Du Bois Fellows — Researchers who are early in their careers (awarded an
academic or research doctorate terminal degree within seven years of December 31, 2023) may
apply for grants for research and evaluation.
Both categories of investigators may submit proposals under either priority area.
NIJ will give special consideration to proposals with methods that include meaningful
engagement with the people closest to the subject of study, including practitioners as well as
community members representing crime victims, people under criminal justice supervision, and
members of high-crime communities.
Applicants are encouraged to propose multidisciplinary research teams to build on the
complementary strengths of different methods and areas of subject matter expertise. NIJ also
seeks proposals that include consideration and measurement of issues of diversity,
discrimination, and bias across age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation, as
applicable.
Applications proposing research involving partnerships with juvenile justice, criminal justice or
other agencies should include a strong letter of support, signed by an appropriate decisionmaking authority from each proposed, partnering agency. A letter of support should include the
partnering agency’s acknowledgment that de-identified data derived from, provided to, or
obtained through an award funded by NIJ will be archived by the grant recipient with the
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) at the conclusion of the award. Applicants
and their potential partners are encouraged to review NIJ’s data archiving guidance. If selected
for an award, grantees will be expected to have a formal agreement in place with partnering
agencies by January 1, 2025. That formal agreement must include a provision to meet the data
archiving requirements of the award.
NIJ seeks proposals that include robust, creative, and multi-pronged dissemination strategies
that include strategic partnerships with organizations and associations that are best equipped to
ensure that research findings lead to changes in policies and practices. Special consideration
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will be given to proposals that dedicate at least 15% of the requested project award funding
toward implementing such strategies, as demonstrated in the “Budget Worksheet and Budget
Narrative.”
In the case of partnerships that will involve the use of federal award funds by multiple partnering
agencies to carry out the proposed project, only one entity/partnering agency may be the
applicant (as is the case with any application submitted in response to this solicitation); any
others must be proposed as subrecipients. The applicant is expected to conduct the
preponderance of the work proposed.

Eligibility

States
All
Regions
All
Eligible Entities
State governments, County governments

Funding

Program Funding
$2,000,000
Award Ceiling
$2,000,000
Award Floor
Award Count
7

Timing

Posted Date
App Status
No Longer Accepting Applications
Pre-app Deadline
Application Deadline
May 16, 2024

Funder

Funding Source
Source Type
Federal
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