State and Local White Collar Crime Program

Post Date

June 1st 2012

Application Due Date

July 16th 2012

Funding Opportunity Number

BJS-2012-3346

CFDA Number(s)

16.734

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Information and Statistics

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

Eligible applicants are limited to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations, faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher learning, and consortia with demonstrated organizational and community-based experience working with American Indian and Alaska Native communities, including tribal for-profit (commercial) and nonprofit organizations, tribal colleges and universities, and tribal consortia. For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.

Funding

• Award Range:

  $None - $500000

Grant Description

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking applications to design and test strategies to field the State and Local White Collar Crime Program (SLWCCP). This is the first BJS effort to focus on white collar crime investigated and sanctioned by state and local governments. The immediate goals of the SLWCCP are to develop an operational definition of white collar crime, describe the activities of state attorneys general (AG) in the area of white collar crime, and to recommend future data collection activities that will provide nationally-representative case-level data on state and local governmentsу handling of white collar crime from criminal, civil and regulatory perspectives. The successful applicant will develop a survey that will assess the activities in state offices AG related to white collar offending. In addition, the recipient of funds will 1) identify and describe the functions of state agencies in each state that deal with white collar crime matters and 2) determine the nature and content of the data systems that exist in these agencies related to that governmentуs investigation, prosecution, and regulatory action against white collar crime.1 With this background in state governing structures and in existing administrative data, the successful applicant will make recommendations for BJS to expand and continue the data collection activities of the State and Local White Collar Crime Program. BJS anticipates making one award for up to a 24-month period under this solicitation. BJS is authorized to issue this solicitation under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, Section 302.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Justice

• Office:

  Office of Justice Programs

• Agency Contact:

  Cathy Maston
  Management and Program Analyst
  Phone 2023075992

• Agency Mailing Address:

  General Information

• Agency Email Address:

  cathy.maston@usdoj.gov

• Location:

  Bureau of Justice Statistics

• More Information:

  Program Announcement