Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.

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This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

Number of Awards: 7,429
Total Amount Awarded: $3,933,755,780

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2018	Reducing Gang Violence: A Long-Term Follow-Up of a Randomized Trial of Functional Family Therapy	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Gangs and Gang Violence	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE	MD	2018-75-CX-0027	$770,657	Closed
2018	Reducing Traffic Related Officer Fatalities and Injuries through Technology Enhancement and Policy	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in the Criminal Justice System	KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY	KS	2018-R2-CX-0024	$496,184	Closed
2018	Regulation of Synthetically Engineered Organisms as Sources of Bio-Hacking and Bio-Terrorism	NIJ FY18 Continuations	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	NE	2016-R2-CX-0023	$50,000	Closed
2018	Research-Based Practice Guide to Address Gang Violence	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	THE URBAN INSTITUTE	DC	2018-PB-FX-K002	$749,956	Closed
2018	Resolving the Forensic DNA Mixture Problem through the Development of End-to-End Single-Cell Pipelines	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	NJ	2018-DU-BX-0185	$546,727	Closed
2018	Restoring Promise: A randomized control trial examining the impact of innovative young adult housing on reducing violence	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation in Corrections	VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE, INC.	NY	2018-75-CX-0021	$750,000	Closed
2018	RF Fingerprinting for Contraband Wireless Devices Identification, Detection and Tracking in Correctional Facilities.	NIJ FY18 Communications Technologies Research and Evaluation for Law Enforcement and Corrections Applications	MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY	MS	2018-75-CX-K002	$599,121	Closed
2018	Rigorous Evaluation of the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice's Second Chance Act Reentry Reform	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	CHILD TRENDS, INCORPORATED	MD	2018-CZ-BX-0026	$985,433	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Risk Assessment Implementation and Youth Outcomes: A Multi-Method Study Spanning The Juvenile Justice System	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	University of Cincinnati	OH	2014-MU-FX-0006	$910,045	Closed
2018	Seasonal Effects on Carrion Decomposition and Insect Colonization	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS	CA	2017-R2-CX-0004	$48,630	Closed
2018	Setting Up for Success: Improving Defendant's Court Appearance Rates with Behaviorally-Informed Pretrial Notification Protocols	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice	NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS	VA	2018-R2-CX-0029	$249,071	Open
2018	Sex and Ancestry Estimation Methods in Modern Filipino Crania	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2017-IJ-CX-0008	$41,856	Closed
2018	Software tool and methodology for enhancement of unidentified decedent systems with postmortem automatic iris recognition	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC	IN	2018-DU-BX-0215	$642,979	Closed
2018	Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2017-R2-CX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2018	Solve Crime. Build Trust? Investigating Homicides and Shootings in Los Angeles	NIJ FY18 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices	JUSTICE AND SECURITY STRATEGIES, INC.	MD	2018-75-CX-0003	$500,000	Closed
2018	Solving Cases of Sudden Unexpected Natural Death in the Young through Comprehensive Postmortem Genetic Testing	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NEW YORK, CITY OF	NY	2018-DU-BX-0204	$450,243	Closed
2018	Stable Isotope Analysis as a Geospatial Tool for Identification: Intra-Individual Isotopic Variability	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2018-DU-BX-0217	$570,624	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Statistical Infrastructure for the Use of Error Rate Studies in the Interpretation of Forensic Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	George Mason University	VA	2018-DU-BX-0228	$197,669	Closed
2018	Structural Characterization of Emerging Synthetic Drugs	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2018-75-CX-0033	$368,415	Closed
2018	Testing a ''not sure'' instruction as a prophylactic against the harmful impact of system and estimator variables on lineup identification accuracy	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2018-R2-CX-0030	$183,059	Closed
2018	Testing new methods for degraded DNA recovery and next-generation sequencing	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2018-DU-BX-0218	$669,898	Closed
2018	Testing the Efficacy of Pretrial Diversion: A Randomized Trial at the San Francisco Neighborhood Courts	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice	THE RAND CORPORATION	CA	2018-R2-CX-0028	$750,000	Closed
2018	The Effect of Altitude on Decomposition: Toward an Understanding of the Postmortem Interval in the Rocky Mountain Region.	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY	IL	2018-R2-CX-0014	$106,701	Closed
2018	The Final Stage Reentry Project: An RCT of Expungement and its Effect on Recidivism, Housing, and Employment	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives	PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE	MA	2019-RY-BX-0001	$1,129,918	Open
2018	The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0180	$726,629	Closed