With this solicitation, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks to maximize the utility of the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) by providing the data and tools needed to support evidence-based analyses for DOJ and other executive, legislative, and judicial branch agencies.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/01/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The FJSP seeks to standardize administrative data received from six federal justice agencies to provide data on arrests, prosecutions, adjudications, sentencing, appeals, imprisonment, and immigration court proceedings. FJSP data are crucial to BJS’s efforts to report statistics on the federal criminal justice system. Each participating agency’s data provides a piece of the broader picture, and BJS must ensure that data are uniform, timely, accurate, accessible, and available for secondary analysis.
Objectives
- Improve the accuracy, coverage, and timeliness of FJSP deliverables.
- Produce formatted and verified data for importing into the FCCPS.
- Improvements to the FCCPS web query tool.
- Maintaining and improving record linkage methods.
- Prepare public use data including sanitized SAFs, dyad link files, and codebook for archiving at NACJD.
- Improvements to validation methodology for annual project deliverables.
- Improvements to project communication.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount To Be Awarded Under This Solicitation: $3,600,000
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount per Award: Up to $3,600,000
Period of Performance
36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- Special district governments
- City or township governments
- Public- and State-controlled institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- For-profit organizations other than small businesses
- Small businesses
- Units of local government, such as towns, boroughs, parishes, villages, or other general purpose political subdivisions of a State
For the purposes of this notice of funding opportunity, “state” means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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