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§12331 Research Agenda

Title 34 › Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts › CHAPTER 121 — VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › SUBCHAPTER III — VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN › Part B — Safe Homes for Women › subpart 2 — data and research › § 12331

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must ask the National Academy of Sciences to make a research plan to better understand and reduce violence against women, including rape and domestic abuse. The Academy must bring together top experts in law, medicine, criminal justice, victim services, social science, and people who work with racial, ethnic, social, and language minority communities. The plan should focus on prevention, education, social supports, and legal approaches, and should address the needs of underserved groups. If the Academy refuses, it must point to a qualified nonprofit to do the work, and the Attorney General must use that group instead. Money for the contract must come from research funds for the National Institute of Justice. The study must be finished and a report sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Judiciary Committee no later than 1 year after September 13, 1994.

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Title 34, §12331

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(a)Request for contract
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.
(b)Declination of request
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.
(c)Report
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.

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Codification Section was formerly classified to section 13961 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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34 U.S.C. § 12331

Title 34, Navy

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110