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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: 7,311
Total Amount Awarded: $3,856,761,547

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2019 Through the Looking Glass Part II: Abuse of the Evolving Electronic Cigarette and the Impact of Vaping Ethanol in the Evaluation of Impairment Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY VA 2019-MU-MU-0007 $1,241,355 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Towards Commercialization: Preliminary developmental validation of a high resolution melt curve mixture prediction assay and SVM tool Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, FY 2019 VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY VA 2019-DU-BX-0003 $399,699 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Trends in Arrests and Investigative Techniques of Technology-Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation Crimes: The 4th National Juvenile Online Victimization Study National Survey of Internet- and Technology-Facilitated Child Exploitation, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE NH 2020-MU-CX-K002 $994,844 Open
2019 Tribal Justice, Tribal Court: Strengthening Tribal Justice Systems Using Restorative Approaches Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants Solicitation, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII HI 2019-75-CX-0013 $99,969 Closed
2019 Understanding the Trafficking of Children for the Purpose of Labor in the United States Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, FY 2019 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MA 2019-VT-BX-0038 $664,690 Closed
2019 Understanding Work-Related Stress among Medicolegal Death Investigators: A National Survey and Mixed-Methods Impact Study Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in the Criminal Justice System, FY 2019 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2019-MU-CX-0068 $549,260 Closed
2019 Using Physician Behavioral Big Data for High Precision Fraud Prediction and Detections Research and Evaluation on White Collar Crime: Health Care and Elder Fraud, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK MD 2019-R2-CX-0016 $842,768 Closed
2019 Using Social Network and Spatial Analysis to Understand and Address Fentanyl Distribution Networks in America’s Largest Port City Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime, FY 2019 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION CA 2019-R2-CX-0020 $995,490 Closed
2019 Using Technology to Facilitate Successful Reentry Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Web-Based Reentry Planning Tool Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives, FY 2019 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2019-R2-CX-0023 $1,169,360 Open
2019 Validation of a Single Instrument, Single Sample Protocol for the Detection of the Inorganicand Organic Constituents of Firearms Discharge Residue Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY WV 2019-R2-CX-0044 $100,000 Closed
2019 Verification and evaluation of a miRNA panel for body fluid identification using DNA extracts Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY VA 2019-NE-BX-0005 $169,628 Closed
2019 Virbrational Spectroscopy for the Analysis of Organic Gunshot Residue: Detection, Identification and Characterization Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 2019-R2-CX-0035 $150,000 Closed
2019 What You Can't Buy, Can't Kill You Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM AL 2019-R2-CX-0019 $641,016 Closed
2018 A Comprehensive Assessment of Deadly Mass Shootings, 1980-2018 NIJ FY18 Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FL 2018-75-CX-0024 $289,810 Closed
2018 A FOUNDATIONAL STUDY OF FIRE DEBRIS INTERPRETATION USING QUANTITATIVE MEASURES OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC FEATURES WITH THE APPLICATION OF ACE-V METHODOLOGY NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE VA 2018-DU-BX-0174 $176,490 Closed
2018 A fully continuous machine learning approach to predict the number of contributors in sequence-based DNA profiles NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY NY 2018-DU-BX-0202 $431,917 Closed
2018 A Longitudinal Study of Police Prestige, Job Satisfaction, Resilience and Stress through the Officer Safety and Wellness Platform (OSAW-B) NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in the Criminal Justice System NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 2018-R2-CX-0026 $1,135,179 Closed
2018 A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine NIJ FY18 Continuations Northeastern University MA 2016-DN-BX-0002 $49,832 Open
2018 A Micro and Macro-Level Assessment of Juvenile Justice Placement Reform in Ohio Legacy OJJDP Research Grants University of Cincinnati OH 2015-JF-FX-0064 $247,090 Closed
2018 A More Timely Process for Identifying and Analyzing Trends of Emerging Novel Psychoactive Substances in the United States NIJ FY18 Continuations TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2017-R2-CX-0002 $49,999 Closed
2018 A National Evaluation of Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Training Legacy OJJDP Research Grants WESTED CA 2018-MC-FX-K007 $750,000 Closed
2018 A New Analytical Technique to Identify Surface Treatments of a Single Fiber NIJ FY18 Continuations GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY DC 2017-R2-CX-0007 $50,000 Closed
2018 A Novel, Trauma-Informed Screening Approach for Teen Dating Violence Perpetration in Racially Diverse Adolescents: A Multi-Site Study UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IL 2018-R2-CX-0022 $249,425 Closed
2018 A Paradigm Shift in Forensic Toxicology Screening: The Development and Validation of Two Automated Sample Preparation Techniques for the Comprehensive Screening of Biological Matrices Using High Resol NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories VA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE VA 2018-DU-BX-0168 $448,063 Closed
2018 A place-based approach to address youth-police officer interactions in crime hotspots: A Randomized Controlled Trial Legacy OJJDP Research Grants NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 2018-JX-FX-0093 $999,396 Past Project Period End Date