NIJ Funding Opportunity: Research on Bias Crimes

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has announced a solicitation for research on bias crime perpetration and victimization. Prospective applicants may find the following NACJD datasets useful in addressing issues related to bias crime:

• Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program (Hate Crime Data)
• National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
• National Crime Victimization Survey (including School Crime Supplements, Identity Theft Supplements, and Stalking Victimization Supplements)
• National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence III
• School Survey on Crime and Safety (2000, 2004, and 2006)
• Survey of Prosecutorial Response to Bias-Motivated Crime in the United States
• Psychological and Behavioral Effects of Bias- and Non-Bias-Motivated Assault in Boston, Massachusetts
• Survey of Campus Law Enforcement Agencies
• Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies
• Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS)
• Homicides in Chicago, 1965-1995

Note that in addition to subject terms, our search engine allows you to discover data by searching by suitable variables (as in "hate crime") or publications (articles with "hate crime" in the title). For example, our bibliography features the following publication using data from our collection when you search for "hate crime":

Walfield, Scott M.,  Socia, Kelly M.,  Powers, Rachael A. in press 2016. Religious motivated hate crimes: Reporting to law enforcement and case outcomes. American Journal of Criminal Justice. doi:10.1007/s12103-016-9349-3

The application deadline is April 3, 2017. For more information, click here.

To see other funding opportunities available from NIJ, click here.

Jan 11, 2017

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