NIJ FY22 Design, Implementation, and Testing of a National Model for Technical Violations

OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community. With this solicitation, NIJ seeks proposals for funding for rigorous research and evaluation projects from accredited academic institutions in partnership with supervising agencies to design, implement, and test parole or probation supervision models that reduce revocations for technical violations while ensuring successful re-entry and minimizing recidivism through adoption of appropriate revocation policies coupled with evidence-based services. Applicants to this solicitation must be accredited academic institutions (please see Eligibility section on page 1). Applications proposing research involving partnerships with criminal justice or other agencies, should include a strong letter of support, signed by an appropriate decision-making authority, from each proposed partnering agency. If applicable, the letter must include acknowledgement that project participation may require policy, programming, staffing, and administrative changes within the partnering agency and will necessarily require modification of existing, or implementation of new, offender and intervention tracking and data collection systems. The project budget should include funding to support all staffing, training, and facility costs associated with the establishment and administration of new or modified programming required for implementation and testing, or written acknowledgement by the partnering entity that these costs will be borne by that entity. A letter of support should include the partnering agency's acknowledgement that de-identified data derived from, provided to, or obtained for this project 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 the NACJD's policies and protections at (NACJD). If selected for award, grantees will be expected to have a formal agreement in place with partnering agencies by January 1, 2023. That formal agreement must include a provision to meet the data archiving requirements of the award. 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.