NIJ Funding Opportunity: Research on Firearms Violence

The National Institute of Justice has announced a solicitation for research that focuses on reducing firearms violence and understanding its causes and effects. Prospective applicants may find the following NACJD datasets useful for addressing these issues:

• National Firearms Survey, 1999
• Firearms Violence and the Michigan Felony Firearm Law: Detroit, 1976-1978
• Firearm Injury Surveillance Study, 1993-2011
• National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) Series
• National Study of Private Ownership of Firearms in the United States, 1994
• Firearms, Violence, and Youth in California, Illinois, Louisiana, and New Jersey, 1991
• Reducing Violent Crime and Firearms Violence in Indianapolis, Indiana, 2003-2005
• Preventing Firearm Violence Among Victims of Intimate Partner Violence in North Carolina, 2003-2004
• Final Assessment of the Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI) in New Haven, Connecticut, 1994-2001
• Gun Density, Gun Type, and the Dallas Homicide Rate, 1980-1992
• Survey of Gun Owners in the United States, 1996
• Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI) Research Partnership in Detroit, Michigan, 1999-2003
• National Survey of Weapon-Related Experiences, Behaviors, and Concerns of High School Youth in the United States, 1996
• National Opinion Survey of Crime and Justice, 1995
• Examination of Crime Guns and Homicide in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1987-1998
• Intercity Variation in Youth Homicide, Robbery, and Assault, 1984-2006
• Neighborhood Violence in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1996-2007

Additional datasets relevant to firearms violence may be found by searching our website.

The application deadline is March 24th, 2017. For more information, click here. To see other funding opportunities available from NIJ, click here.

Jan 17, 2017

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