The National Institute of Justice’s Research Assistantship Program

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

The National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) Research Assistantship Program (RAP) is designed to support criminal justice research and to provide highly qualified doctoral students with practical and applied research experience. NIJ provides funds to participating universities to pay salaries and other costs associated with research assistants who work on NIJ research activities. Panel participants will provide an overview of the program and duties and responsibilities of NIJ research assistants (RA), university/college and student eligibility requirements, funding details, how to apply to the program, and announce the 2015-16 academic year RAP placement opportunities followed by a discussion of former and current RAs describing their experiences at NIJ.

Sub Unit

• Area XI: Professional Development

Individual Presentations

• What every candidate needs to know about NIJ’s RAP program - Christine R. Crossland, National Institute of Justice, USDOJ

• What every doctoral program director needs to know about NIJ’s RAP program - Christine R. Crossland, National Institute of Justice, USDOJ

• A Day in the Life of a NIJ Research Assistant - Jocelyn Fontaine, Urban Institute; Melissa Rorie, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Jaspreet Chahal, George Mason University / National Institute of Justice

Chair

• Christine R. Crossland, National Institute of Justice, USDOJ