Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
378 Sam Houston State University (142266)
Principal Investigator: Zhang, Yan
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 105,191
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 5/10/22 - 9/30/23
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Criminal Justice
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Department of Criminal Justice
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: MS-Evaluation of Houston PD Social Network Analysis
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Houston Police Department
CFDA Link: DOJ
16.738
Program Title:
n/a
CFDA Linked: EDWARD BYRNE MEMORIAL JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM
Note:
SAMs 1.1.1: This project is a continuation of the Evaluating Project Safe Neighborhoods in the Southern District of Texas project that has been funded in fiscal years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. In this project, we will continue to collaborate with the Southern District of Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO-SDTX), and the SDTX PSN task forces to provide needed research support, help the PSN team to develop and execute effective strategic plans to reduce violent crimes, build evidence-based and data-driven intervention programs, and conduct independent assessments of PSN efforts. This project will continue serving the accountability design feature of the PSN program implemented by the USAO-SDTX. The project will focus on collecting data on outcomes achieved through the program by different local agencies and evaluating the effects on violent crime reductions in the targeted problems and targeted areas identified by local PSN task forces. The research activities described in this proposal include: 1) collecting and analyzing data that measure law enforcement activities, crime, incarceration, and recidivism in Houston and Harris County; 2) helping local agencies to identify hotspots and small “micro-places” in greatest need of comprehensive violent crime reduction efforts, and identify key individuals driving violent crime in the target areas; 3) helping local agencies to develop and monitor their implementation of effective intervention strategies; and 4) providing evidence-based and data-driven evaluation of PSN effects on the violent crime rate, incarceration rate and recidivism rate in the targeted areas. The project will utilize statistical modeling of survey and agency data to identify target areas and target problems, measure outcomes, and for the way interventions are being implemented and carried out.
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