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NIJ sponsors fellowship programs to strengthen and broaden the pool of researchers looking at the issues of crime and justice by:
NIJ’s research and development process helps ensure that projects are relevant to the field and produce valid, actionable results. The process typically includes:
Throughout this process, we follow widely accepted scientific processes and procedures to help ensure the validity and integrity of our research.
We identify the needs of criminal justice fields through engagement with practitioners, policymakers and researchers.
We sponsor meetings, workshops and...
The following table presents NIJ's Graduate Research Fellows since 2000. When available, the project titles are linked to an abstract of the fellow's final report, from which you also can download the full report.
| Fiscal Year | Award Number | Fellow, University and Dissertation Chair (if available) | Project Title (linked to description or final report if available) | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15PNIJ-24-GG-01564-RESS | Talley Bettens... |
NIJ learns from the people who work day-to-day with the issues. We sponsor meetings, workshops, and working groups that bring together researchers, policymakers, technologists, and practitioners.
These meetings generate a rich exchange of ideas. They guide future research and help ensure that NIJ's research, development and evaluation activities meet real-world needs.
Review the summaries or transcripts available for many of these meetings:
Good morning:
I thank you for the invitation to speak with you this morning and thank Mark Kleiman for arranging this impressive gathering. I realize that my trips to the West Coast are all too infrequent and so took advantage of a trip even further west -- to Australia -- to spend a few hours with you and with Peter Greenwood and his colleagues at...
I am very honored to be here, and particularly to be asked to address the challenging topic of the relationship between research and policy in the area of criminal justice and drug treatment.
Coming to this conference in Los Angeles, I reflected on the conference that many of us attended in April, 1997, in New Orleans on a similar topic. I distinctly recall that there...
Thank you, Dr. Scherpenzeel, for your generous words.
On behalf of the United States delegation, I want to thank the sponsors of the workshop: The European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, Affiliated with the United Nations [HEUNI], and especially you, Dr. Scherpenzeel, for your efforts in coordinating it. The UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute [UNICRI], the Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands...
Framing the National Agenda: a Research and Policy Perspective
I am very pleased and honored to be with you this morning. In fact, I am in awe of the level of expertise and commitment that is represented in this audience. Larry Meachum and his colleagues at the Corrections Program Office are to be commended for gathering together the right people, with the right expertise, at...
