2010 Visiting Fellow: Corrections Statistics

Post Date

April 6th 2010

Application Due Date

June 4th 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

2010-BJS-2657

CFDA Number(s)

16.734

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Information and Statistics

Number of Awards

2

Eligibility Categories

Other

Applicants are limited to senior-level researchers and/or statisticians who are willing to commit a substantial portion of their time over an eighteen-month period to undertake methodological research to enhance the bureau’s capacity to use its National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) data for studying important research questions.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $200000

• Award Range:

  $None - $200000

Grant Description

BJS invites candidates to apply to its Visiting Fellow Program to undertake methodological research to enhance its capacity to use its National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) data for studying failure (and success) of state parolees, time served in prison and its contribution to changes in the size of the prison population, periods of imprisonment over the life course of offenders, and methods to address nonresponse in generating national-level estimates of transitions between stages of the imprisonment process.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Justice

• Office:

  Office of Justice Programs

• Agency Contact:

  Lisa Price-Grear
  Program Analyst
  Phone 202-616-3561

• Agency Mailing Address:

  General Information

• Agency Email Address:

  lisa.price-grear@usdoj.gov

• Location:

  Bureau of Justice Statistics

• More Information:

  Program Announcement