FY 2013 Continuation of the Federal Justice Statistics Program

Post Date

May 9th 2013

Application Due Date

June 24th 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

BJS-2013-3649

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 (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations), faith based and community organizations, institutions of higher learning (including tribal institutions of higher education. For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee).

Funding

• Award Range:

  $None - $3000000

Grant Description

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the statistics agency of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and a component of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP). BJS is announcing a public solicitation for the continuation of the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) through a Cooperative Agreement. The FJSP is managed by BJS and serves as the national clearinghouse of federal case processing data. Under this program, data provided by six federal justice agencies are standardized, maintained, analyzed, and archived (currently under Award #2010-BJ-CX-K079).1 The FJSP produces annual, cross-sectional data files (Standard Analysis Files, or SAFs) which represent the stages from arrest and prosecution through pretrial release, adjudication, sentencing, appeals, and corrections. BJS has used these files to report on defendants processed at a specific stage at a point in time. In the late 1990s, the FJSP developed a methodology to link person-case records to improve statistical reporting. Recognizing the greater analytical rigor that linked or рlongitudinalс data provides in addressing policy questions, the FJSP created the Dyad Link File System to enable analysis of linked cohorts. The clearinghouse currently contains annual cross-sectional data files and Dyad Link Files from 1994 to 2010. Tasks under this award will include receiving 2013, 2014, and 2015 datasets from six federal agencies, converting 2012 (already received), 2013, and 2014 data into SAF format using SAS statistical software code, implementing guidelines to ensure data quality and confidentiality standards, and updating and expanding the Dyad Link File System to include all available data. The recipient will also provide technical assistance to BJS and others in using the FJSP data, preparing data and documenting files to update and expand the BJS online query tool, and assisting BJS to create additional online statistical reporting capabilities. The recipient will also prepare data files and documentation for submission to the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). BJS is authorized to issue this solicitation under 42 U.S.C. _ 3732(c). The recipient will prepare the annual Federal Criminal Justice Statistics bulletin and annually produce four data briefs on issues of timely substantive importance. The successful applicant will receive all relevant computer code developed to date by the FJSP to create the SAFs, the Dyad Link Files, the BJS online query tools, and the files submitted to NACJD.

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