AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION

The American Statistical Association (ASA) Committee on Law and Justice Statistics announces a small grant program for the analysis of Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and other justice-related data. This program is designed to encourage the creative and appropriate use of these data to inform substantive and methodological issues. Awards are generally to be completed within a two-year period and are typically in the range of $25,000 to $40,000.

Proposals must be e-mailed by January 15, 2010. More information can be found at:
http://www.amstat.org/careers/pdfs/BJSsolicitation.pdf

CAMPBELL CRIME AND JUSTICE: CALL FOR NEW TITLES

The Campbell Collaboration Crime & Justice Coordinating Group is an international network of researchers that prepares, updates, and rapidly disseminates systematic reviews of high-quality research conducted worldwide on effective methods to reduce crime and delinquency and improve the quality of justice.  We are interested in receiving title proposals for potential new systematic reviews to be registered with the Campbell Collaboration.  Such reviews should focus on a specific intervention or set of programs.

The development of a systematic review involves the proposal of a ‘title’ to the Crime and Justice Coordinating Group (David Farrington and David Weisburd, Co-Chairs), the development of a ‘protocol’ that details the topic area and methods proposed, and a final systematic review report.  Protocols and final reviews are peer-reviewed and, if approved, are published in the Campbell Collaboration Library.

For more information about proposing a title, please contact David Wilson (Editor for the Crime and Justice Coordinating Group) at dwilsonb@gmu.edu, or Charlotte Gill (Managing Editor) at gillce@sas.upenn.edu.  Information regarding the Campbell Collaboration and its Crime and Justice Group can be found at www.campbellcollaboration.org.

U.S. Department of Justice Entities