34 U.S.C. § 12331 — Research agenda
submitted 32 years ago by Pub. L. 103-322 to r/title-34-CRIME-CONTROL-AND-LAW-ENFORCEMENT · 271 words · no verdicts yet
The Attorney General must ask the National Academy of Sciences to create a research plan on violence against women, using experts from law, medicine, and other fields. If the Academy declines, a qualified nonprofit does the work instead. A report on the findings was due to Congress within a year of September 13, 1994.
(a) Request for contract. The Attorney General must ask the National Academy of Sciences, through its National Research Council, to sign a contract to build a research agenda for better understanding and controlling violence against women, including rape and domestic violence*. The Academy must gather a panel of nationally recognized experts, in law, medicine, criminal justice, victim services, and experts serving diverse ethnic, social, and language minority communities and the social sciences. The agenda must focus mainly on strategies for prevention, education, social support, and legal reform, including the needs of underserved groups.
(b) Declination of request. If the National Academy of Sciences says no to doing the study, it must recommend a qualified nonprofit private group instead. Either way, whether the Academy or the recommended nonprofit does the work, the contract is paid for using funds already set aside for National Institute of Justice research.
(c) Report. The Attorney General must make sure the study is finished, and a report on the findings is sent to the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, no later than one year after September 13, 1994.
The Attorney General shall request the National Academy of Sciences, through its National Research Council, to enter into a contract to develop a research agenda to increase the understanding and control of violence against women, including rape and domestic violence*. In furtherance of the contract, the National Academy shall convene a panel of nationally recognized experts on violence against women, in the fields of law, medicine, criminal justice, and direct services to victims and experts on domestic violence in diverse, ethnic, social, and language minority communities and the social sciences. In setting the agenda, the Academy shall focus primarily on preventive, educative, social, and legal strategies, including addressing the needs of underserved populations.
If the National Academy of Sciences declines to conduct the study and develop a research agenda, it shall recommend a nonprofit private entity that is qualified to conduct such a study. In that case, the Attorney General shall carry out subsection (a) through the nonprofit private entity recommended by the Academy. In either case, whether the study is conducted by the National Academy of Sciences or by the nonprofit group it recommends, the funds for the contract shall be made available from sums appropriated for the conduct of research by the National Institute of Justice.
The Attorney General shall ensure that no later than 1 year after September 13, 1994, the study required under subsection (a) is completed and a report describing the findings made is submitted to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40291, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1939.)
- 1994Enacted · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 1939
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