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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.
Description

Number of Awards: 7,469
Total Amount Awarded: $3,953,941,280

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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
2018 The Impact of Individualized Focused Deterrence on Criminal and Pro-Social Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Study of the St. Louis Police Partnership NIJ FY18 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices THE CNA CORPORATION VA 2018-75-CX-0001 $635,300 Past Project Period End Date
2018 The influence of social surroundings on juvenile and criminal justice involvement of 17-year-olds transitioning from foster care to adulthood: A longitudinal and life-course approach NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Social and Behavioral Sciences The University of Chicago IL 2018-R2-CX-0007 $32,000 Closed
2018 The Nature, Trends, Correlates and Prevention of Mass Public Shootings in America, 1976-2018 NIJ FY18 Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MA 2018-75-CX-0025 $498,929 Past Project Period End Date
2018 The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression NIJ FY18 Continuations VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE TN 2017-IJ-CX-0007 $49,616 Closed
2018 The PbS Learning Institute, the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA), and the VERA Institute of Justice, propose to develop new reentry measurement standards. Legacy OJJDP Research Grants PbS Learning Institute, Inc. MA 2015-CZ-BX-K002 $750,000 Closed
2018 Through the E-Cigarette Looking Glass: The Impact of Vaping Ethanol on DUI Investigations NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY VA 2018-75-CX-0036 $517,961 Closed
2018 To Understand the Role of Trauma, Exposure to Violence, and Retraumatization for Justice Involved Youth, Particularly for Clients Who Identify As LGBTQI or GNC Legacy OJJDP Research Grants Hennepin County MN 2016-MU-MU-0066 $60,379 Closed