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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.

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

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2013 Acquisition of a new Regional Automated Fingerpint Indentification System (AFIS) NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Salem OR 2013-CD-BX-0061 $85,300 Closed
2013 Across the Universe? A Comparative Analysis of Violent Radicalization Across Three Offender Types with Implications for Criminal Justice Training and Education NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Radicalization to Violent Extremism in the United States University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2013-ZA-BX-0002 $530,298 Closed
2013 Adaptive Expert System that Learns to Detect and Track Patterns of Crime in Internet Advertisements NIJ FY 13 Applied Technology Research and Development for Criminal Justice Purposes Carnegie Mellon University PA 2013-IJ-CX-K007 $245,382 Closed
2013 Advancing Probabilistic Approaches to Interpreting Low-template DNA Profiles and Mixtures: Developing Theory, Implementing Practice NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles CA 2013-DN-BX-K029 $545,303 Closed
2013 An empirical analysis of the scope and scale of organized crime''s involvement in human trafficking in the United States NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues Trafficking in Persons, Transnational Organized Crime and Violent Extremism Texas Christian University TX 2013-R2-CX-0049 $308,694 Closed
2013 An innovative response to an intractable problem: Using village public safety officers to enhance the criminal justice response to violence committed against Indian women in Alaska's tribal community NIJ FY 13 Evaluating the Effectiveness of State, Local, and Tribal Responses to Violence Committed Against Indian Women Living in Tribal Communities University of Alaska Anchorage AK 2013-VW-CX-0001 $294,317 Closed
2013 Analysis of Drugs of Abuse in Human Hair: Surface Contamination and Localization of Analytes NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Research Triangle Institute NC 2013-DN-BX-K021 $343,845 Closed
2013 Anthropological Methods for DNA Analysis of the Missing and Unidentified Children Located at the Former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida NIJ FY 13 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of South Florida FL 2013-DN-BX-K002 $423,528 Closed
2013 Application for Continuation Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Program NIJ FY 13 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of North Texas Health Science Center At Fort Worth TX 2011-MU-BX-K063 $2,250,000 Closed
2013 Applied Research and Development of a Three-dimensional Topography System for Imaging and Analysis of Striated and Impressed Tool Marks for Firearm Identification using GelSight NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Cadre Research Labs, LLC MA 2013-R2-CX-K005 $193,000 Closed
2013 Aptamer-Based, Exonuclease-Amplified, Paper Device for Point of Collection Screening of Cocaine and Methamphetamine in Oral Fluid NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Florida International University FL 2013-DN-BX-K032 $352,223 Closed
2013 Arizona Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Arizona Criminal Justice Commission AZ 2013-CD-BX-0004 $311,392 Closed
2013 Assessing Sample Preparation Methods for Emerging DNA Sequencing Technologies in Human Forensic mtDNA Analysis Applications NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Western Carolina University NC 2013-DN-BX-K014 $717,768 Closed
2013 Assessing the Influence of Home Visit Themes and Temporal Ordering On High-Risk Parolee Outcomes NIJ FY 13 The Impact of Probation/Parole Officer Home Visits on Offender Outcomes Applied Research Services, Inc. GA 2013-IJ-CX-0062 $221,309 Closed
2013 Assessing the Transnational Criminal Capacity of MS-13 in the U.S. and El Salvador NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues Trafficking in Persons, Transnational Organized Crime and Violent Extremism American University DC 2013-R2-CX-0048 $671,615 Closed
2013 Assessing the Validity and Reliability of National Data on Citizen Complaints about Police Use of Force NIJ FY 13 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data Seattle University WA 2013-R2-CX-0035 $36,167 Closed
2013 Bath Salt-type Aminoketone designer Drugs: Analytical and Synthetic Studies on Substituted Cathinones NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Auburn University AL 2013-DN-BX-K022 $344,325 Closed
2013 Biometrics from the Isotopic Analysis of Amino Acids in Human Hair NIJ FY 13 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes West Virginia University Research Corporation WV 2013-DN-BX-K007 $283,464 Closed
2013 Blind Collaborative Justice: Testing the Impact of Expert Blinding and Consensus Building on the Validity of Forensic Testimony NIJ FY 13 Social Science Research on Forensic Science RAND Corporation CA 2013-IJ-CX-0002 $337,306 Closed
2013 California DNA Assistance Program NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Governor's Office of Emergency Services CA 2013-DY-BX-K003 $962,489 Closed
2013 Characterization of Performance-Enhancing Peptides via Inlet Ionization on DART-TOF/MS NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Harris County, TX TX 2013-DN-BX-K020 $80,765 Closed
2013 Citrate Content of Bone: A Potential Measure of Post Mortem Interval NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Research Foundation for SUNY at The College at Brockport NY 2013-DN-BX-K031 $208,491 Closed
2013 Colorado's 2013 Coverdell Project NIJ FY 13 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Division of Criminal Justice CO 2013-CD-BX-0033 $107,969 Closed
2013 Combined Genetic and Micro-chemical Analysis of Household Dust as a Definitive Trace Identifier of a Room and its Occupants NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Central Florida FL 2013-DN-BX-K025 $188,198 Closed
2013 Combining Efforts to Identify the Missing: A United States/Mexico DNA Project NIJ FY 13 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing Conference of Western Attorneys General CA 2013-DN-BX-K001 $384,539 Closed