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.

Number of Awards: 7,391
Total Amount Awarded: $3,904,954,950

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2017	Increasing identifications of deceased border crossers: investigating spatial and skeletal attributes of migrant deaths	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	Michigan State University	MI	2017-IJ-CX-0002	$36,148	Closed
2017	Increasing Safety in High Need Schools: an Evaluation of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Schools	NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative	CORNELL UNIVERSITY	NY	2017-CK-BX-0012	$2,975,446	Closed
2017	Indicators of Sex Trafficking in Online Escort Ads	NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	JUSTICE RESEARCH AND STATISTICS ASSOCIATION, INC.	DC	2017-MU-CX-0005	$597,532	Closed
2017	Infusing Community Policing Strategies into Hot Spots Policing Practices: The Impacts on Police-Community Relations in a Mid-Sized City	NIJ FY17 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices (Beyond Crime Reduction)	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2017-R2-CX-0012	$316,125	Past Project Period End Date
2017	INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES FOR ASSESSING RADICALIZATION RISK: RISK TERRAIN MODELING AND CONJUNCTIVE ANALYSIS	NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM	AR	2017-ZA-CX-0004	$715,996	Closed
2017	Interpersonal Conflict and Resolution: Assessing victimization and perpetration sequencing and proximal determinants	NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	2017-VF-GX-0103	$452,891	Closed
2017	Interpersonal Violence and Institutional Misconduct in Jails: An Empirical Investigation of Adverse Events in the Los Angeles County Jail System	NIJ FY17 New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)	PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY	OR	2017-IJ-CX-0037	$184,636	Closed
2017	Interpretation and Analysis of Recorded Gunshot Sounds	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY	MT	2017-DN-BX-0179	$236,000	Closed
2017	Investigating the Effectiveness of the School Security Climate on Student Connectedness and School Performance	NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative	Yeshiva University	NY	2017-CK-BX-0008	$1,000,000	Closed
2017	Investigations on the Cellular and Morphologic Characteristics of Cranial Vault Fracture: Research and Development of a Time Since Fracture Protocol and Database	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE	MI	2017-DN-BX-0166	$576,060	Closed
2017	Kinematic Validation of FDE Determinations about Writership in Questioned Handprinting and Handwriting	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO	CA	2017-DN-BX-0148	$464,910	Closed
2017	Lightweight Impact-Resistant and Flame-Retardant Materials: Lessons from Biology	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	The Regents of the University of California	CA	2016-R2-CX-0015	$49,268	Closed
2017	Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	The University of Chicago	IL	2017-MU-MU-0042	$532,286	Closed
2017	Longitudinal Examination of Victimization Experiences of Latinos (LEVEL): Extending the Bias Victimization Study	NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime	NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY	MA	2017-VF-GX-0005	$725,999	Closed
2017	Making Schools Safer and/or Creating a Pipeline to Prison: A Study of North Carolina Schools	NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2017-CK-BX-0006	$498,265	Closed
2017	Massively parallel sequencing of 89 microhaplotypes for the selection of an operational and effective subset for forensic applications.	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE	DC	2017-DN-BX-0164	$492,892	Closed
2017	Metabolism and Analysis of Desomorphine	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	Sam Houston State University	TX	2015-R2-CX-0031	$48,907	Closed
2017	Microbial Community Succession in Human and Pig Decomposition	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2016-DN-BX-0010	$50,000	Past Project Period End Date
2017	Multi-level Analyses of Accuracy and Error in Digital Criminal Record Data	NIJ FY17 New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)	RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY	NJ	2017-IJ-CX-0036	$190,909	Closed
2017	Nanoparticles for Chemical Imaging of Latent Fingerprint	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	Iowa State University of Science and Technology	IA	2016-DN-BX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2017	Nanoscale Imaging and Chemical Analysis of Extracellular DNA in Trace Evidence Samples	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2017-DN-BX-0186	$311,609	Closed
2017	Nanostructural Characterization of Ballistic Fiber Degradation	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	Purdue University	IN	2016-R2-CX-0011	$49,925	Closed
2017	New Concept for Fingerprint Analysis: Bioaffinity-Based Systems Utilizing Amino Acids	NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	The Research Foundation for The SUNY, University at Albany	NY	2016-DN-BX-0009	$49,994	Closed
2017	New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision FY 2017 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence-Inventory, Tracking and Reporting Project.	NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR)	New York State Department of Corrections and Community Super	NY	2017-AK-BX-0012	$483,666	Open
2017	Non-destructive, enhanced collection and recovery from difficult forensic samples, improving the "front end" processes of DNA typing	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2017-DN-BX-0137	$286,931	Closed