Click on the headings below for details on BJS’s activities in March 2024.
New report on children’s exposure to violence
BJS released Methodological Research to Support the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence. This third-party report by Westat, funded by BJS and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), describes comprehensive efforts to review and assess the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) and recommends alternate approaches.
Read the Report
FY 2024 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) solicitation
BJS seeks applications for funding for the fiscal year 2024 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP). This program aims to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal history and related records in support of national record systems and their use for name- and fingerprint-based criminal history background checks.
Applications will be submitted in a two-step process, each with its own deadline:
- Step 1: Submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in Grants.gov. Grants.gov forms are due on May 13, 2024, by 5:00 p.m. ET.
- Step 2: Submit the full application including attachments in JustGrants.usdoj.gov. The full JustGrants application is due on May 20, 2024, by 5:00 p.m. ET.
National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Supplemental Funding under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act solicitation
BJS seeks applications for funding for fiscal year 2024 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Supplemental Funding under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. This program aims to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal history and related records in support of national record systems and their use for name- and fingerprint-based criminal history record background checks. This program was developed to implement Title III, Division B (3) – Appropriations outlined in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (P.L. 117–159).
Applications will be submitted in a two-step process, each with its own deadline:
- Step 1: Submit an SF-424 and an SF-LLL in Grants.gov. Grants.gov forms are due on May 6, 2024, by 5:00 p.m. ET.
- Step 2: Submit the full application including attachments in JustGrants.usdoj.gov. The full JustGrants application is due on May 13, 2024, by 5:00 p.m. ET.
Public comments requested on the Survey of Inmates in Local Jails
BJS encourages comments for 60 days on the Survey of Inmates in Local Jails, a previously approved data collection. This survey generates reliable, nationally representative estimates of the characteristics of jail inmates in the United States, tracks changes in the characteristics of jail inmates over time, conducts studies of jail inmates on special topics, and identifies policy-relevant issues related to crime and corrections.
Submit your comments to the Office of Management and Budget through the Federal Register by May 13, 2024.
Public comments requested on the Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities
BJS encourages comments for the next 60 days on the extension of the Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities, a previously approved data collection. This census collects information at the facility level that describes the characteristics of adult correctional facilities and persons sentenced to state and federal prisons.
Submit your comments to the Office of Management and Budget through the Federal Register by May 10, 2024.
Public comments requested on the Survey of Sexual Victimization
BJS encourages comments for 60 days on the extension, with change, of the Survey of Sexual Victimization, a currently approved data collection. This survey collects annual administrative data on allegations and substantiated incidents of sexual victimization from adult correctional and juvenile justice authorities.
Submit your comments to the Office of Management and Budget through the Federal Register by April 12, 2024.
View BJS and OVC infographics on victim service providers
BJS and the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) collaborated to produce a series of infographics using data from the 2019 National Survey of Victim Service Providers (NSVSP). The NSVSP collects data from a nationally representative sample of programs and organizations that serve victims of crime or abuse. It compiles detailed information about the victim services field, including the range of services provided to victims, the types of organizations referring victims to victim service organizations, and where gaps in services exist. The statistics shown in the infographics are from the BJS statistical report, Services for Crime Victims, 2019.
- Kenya’s National Workshop on Crime Data
- 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences 61st Annual Meeting
- Large Jail Network (LJN) Meeting
- Tribal Justice Panel
Access previous Month in Reviews and view BJS's 2023 Year in Review.