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The Department of Justice, through the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), offered a discretionary cooperative agreement grant opportunity titled "Advancing Research on Offender Behavioral Change: Sanctions and Incentives" (Funding Opportunity Number: 17CS11; CFDA: 16.602). Released on May 4, 2017, with an application deadline of July 3, 2017, this solicitation anticipated making a single award with a maximum funding level (award ceiling) of $150,000. The funding mechanism was a cooperative agreement, which typically means the federal agency expects to play an active role in the project (for example, providing substantial involvement, guidance, or coordination as the work is carried out), rather than simply issuing funds and receiving a final report.
The core purpose of the opportunity was to strengthen the evidence base around how sanctions and incentives are used in community supervision settings to support offender behavioral change. Community corrections practitioners (such as probation and parole agencies) routinely rely on a mix of responses to compliance and noncompliance, but the field often faces uneven practices, inconsistent documentation, and gaps in research about what approaches work best, for whom, and under what circumstances. This grant aimed to take a structured, research-oriented look at current practice and to lay a foundation for more rigorous and cumulative research in the future.
The work described in the solicitation centered on three main deliverables. First, the selected awardee was expected to develop information and data collection strategies to identify how sanctions and incentives are currently being used by community corrections practitioners. In practical terms, this means designing ways to gather comparable information across agencies and jurisdictions, potentially including surveys, structured interviews, document reviews, policy and procedure analyses, and data definitions that allow agencies to report their practices consistently. The emphasis on "strategies" suggests NIC wanted more than a one-time scan; it wanted approaches that could reliably capture real-world usage patterns and help standardize what is measured and how.
Second, the awardee was tasked with producing a white paper that summarizes the research findings and, critically, identifies and prioritizes knowledge and research gaps. This implies that the project was expected to go beyond describing current practice and also assess the existing state of research (and/or the information gathered through the project) to determine what is known, what remains unclear, and which unanswered questions matter most for practice and policy. Prioritizing gaps is an important feature here because it creates a roadmap for the field, distinguishing between "nice to know" topics and the questions that are most likely to improve supervision outcomes, decision-making consistency, fairness, and effectiveness.
Third, the opportunity required development of a research agenda designed to build an accumulative body of research supporting the effective use of sanctions and incentives within community supervision models. The phrase "accumulative body of research" signals NICs interest in encouraging studies that build on each other over time, using compatible definitions, shared measures, and comparable outcomes so that findings can be synthesized, replicated, and translated into guidance for agencies. A strong research agenda under this grant would likely outline priority research questions, recommend study designs (such as quasi-experimental approaches, randomized or stepped-wedge trials where feasible, implementation and fidelity studies, and cost or cost-effectiveness analyses), propose common outcome measures, and highlight the data infrastructure needed to support sustained research partnerships between agencies and researchers.
Overall, this opportunity was positioned as a field-building effort: documenting how sanctions and incentives are actually used on the ground, translating those observations into a clear picture of what the field knows and does not know, and setting a forward-looking research plan that can guide future studies and investments. The intended end result was better, more evidence-informed use of sanctions and incentives in community corrections, with the longer-term goal of improving behavioral change outcomes under community supervision while promoting consistency and effectiveness in supervision practices.Apply for 17CS11
- The Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections in the other (see text field entitled explanation of other category of funding activity for clarification) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Advancing Research on Offender Behavioral Change: Sanctions and Incentives" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.602.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 04, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 03, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $150,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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