Deadline- May 20, 2013
All eligible applicants are invited for research program on Children Exposed to Violence offered by U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ). The objective of this program is to make significant impact on a child’s behavior and ability to learn and develop coping strategies. Research also shows that positive outcomes are associated with the disruption of violence, and that intervention to improve parent-child functioning can interrupt negative impacts and improve a child’s development. NIJ is particularly interested in examining factors that may actively promote resilience and focus on promoting civic engagement.
Research areas-
- The relationship of Internet harassment/electronic aggression to other forms of “offline” violence, such as sexual harassment, bullying, and physical violence.
- The relationship between Internet harassment/electronic aggression and exposure to violence in home, school, and neighborhood environments.
- How known risk and protective factors for other types of victimization are (or are not) associated with the risk of Internet harassment/electronic aggression.
- Factors that may affect the impact of Internet harassment/electronic aggression such as type, severity, mechanism, number of peers involved, relationship between victim and perpetrator, and other factors.
- Development and validation of standardized (i.e., normed) measures for Internet harassment/electronic aggression victimization.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- NIJ is authorized to make grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with, States (including territories), units of local government (including federally recognized Indian tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit and profit organizations), institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education), and certain qualified individuals. For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee. Foreign governments, foreign organizations, and foreign institutions of higher education are not eligible to apply.
- NIJ may elect to make awards for applications submitted under this solicitation in future fiscal years, dependent on the merit of the applications and on the availability of appropriations.
For more information, visit grants.gov and search by funding opportunity number.NIJ-2013-3469
