The Russell Sage Foundation, in collaboration with the criminal justice program at Arnold Ventures, is pleased to announce five awards made in the second round of its Causal Research on the Criminal Justice System grants initiative. The goal of this initiative is to cultivate a pipeline of researchers conducting causal research on the criminal justice system. Criminal justice policies and practices include the work of police, courts, jails, prisons, probation and parole, and immigration detention. Applicants can request up to $100,000 in funding. Following is the list of grant recipients.

Andrew Anderson (Johns Hopkins University) and Brigham Walker (Tulane University) will examine whether an increase in mobile crisis capacity meaningfully reduces law enforcement involvement for behavioral health crises.

Amanda Coston (University of California, Berkeley) will investigate how intensified immigration enforcement shapes civic participation and neighborhood economic activity.

Amy L. Johnson (Indiana University, Bloomington) and Rebecca Gleit (Skidmore College)   will evaluate the effects of Seattle’s community crisis response program on outcomes to mental health crises, such as arrests and psychiatric detentions.

Jie Tao (Tarleton State University) will examine whether dedicating local sales tax revenue to crime control and prevention affects municipal crime rates, offense clearance rate, and racial disparities in arrest rates.

Kenneth Whaley (University of South Florida), Jamein Cunningham (University of Texas at Austin), and Monique Davis (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research) will estimate the impact of school finance reforms on the homicide victimization of young Black men.