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

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 Establishing a NationalInstitute of JusticeResearch, Test, andEvaluation Center:Continuation NIJ FY 15 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Johns Hopkins University MD 2013-MU-CX-K111 $3,771,000 Closed
2015 Evaluating Gunshot Detection Technology (GDT) to Aid in the Reduction of Firearms Violence NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence Reduction Urban Institute DC 2015-R2-CX-K147 $622,432 Closed
2015 Evaluating the effectiveness of liquid chromatography-time of flight-mass spectrometry (LC-TOF-MS) as a replacement screening tool. NIJ FY 14 Research and Development for Publicly Funded Forensic Science Laboratories to Assess the Testing and Processing of Physical Evidence Washington State Patrol WA 2015-DN-BX-K055 $150,000 Closed
2015 Evaluating the Efficiency of the Use of the Qiagen® QIAsymphony® with High Throughput Y-screening as an Alternative to Conventional Serology NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Marshall University Research Corporation WV 2015-R2-CX-K039 $154,577 Closed
2015 Evaluating the law enforcement, prosecutor, and court response to firearm-related crimes in St. Louis NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Justice Systems Curators of the University of Missouri on Behalf of UMSL MO 2015-IJ-CX-0015 $564,773 Closed
2015 Evaluating the Safe Spaces Community-Led CVE Program NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago IL 2015-ZA-BX-0003 $936,571 Closed
2015 Evaluating the Skin Microbiome ad Trace Evidence NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications The Regents of the University of California; University of California, San Diego CA 2014-R2-CX-K411 $637,942 Closed
2015 Evaluating the Use and Impact of Video Analytics to Enhance Law Enforcement Surveillance Systems NIJ FY 15 Optimizing the Use of Video Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes Urban Institute DC 2015-R2-CX-K002 $1,199,947 Closed
2015 Evaluation and Optimization of DNA Recovery and Amplification from Bullet Cartridge Cases NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation PA 2015-DN-BX-K059 $494,630 Open
2015 Evaluation of Acute Cell Toxicity of Pyrolytic Products of Synthetic Cannabinoids NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics West Virginia University WV 2015-R2-CX-0032 $45,683 Closed
2015 Evaluation of an Intensive Truancy Reduction Program (CISDRXT) within Communities In Schools (CIS) of the Dallas Region NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative EDVANCE RESEARCH, INC. TX 2015-CK-BX-0015 $4,609,701 Closed
2015 Evaluation of OVW''s Sexual Assault Justice Initiative NIJ FY 15 Evaluation of the Office on Violence Against Women's Sexual Assault Justice Initiative THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2015-ZD-CX-K002 $999,724 Closed
2015 Evaluation of the Office for Victims of Crime Wraparound Victim Legal Assistance Network Demonstration Project Continuation NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations ICF Incorporated, L.L.C. VA 2012-VF-GX-0001 $499,911 Closed
2015 Evaluation of the Supporting Male Survivors of Violence Demonstration Initiative NIJ FY 15 Evaluation of the Office for Victims of Crime Supporting Male Survivors of Violence Demonstration RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2015-VF-GX-K101 $704,919 Closed
2015 Evidential Value of Particle Combination Profiles On Common Items of Physical Evidence NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Stoney Forensic, Inc. VA 2015-DN-BX-K046 $441,595 Closed
2015 Examination of the Short-and Long-term Impact of School Shootings NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles CA 2015-VF-GX-K113 $1,254,975 Closed
2015 Examining Prosecutorial Discretion in Federal Criminal Cases NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program The University of Texas at San Antonio TX 2015-R2-CX-0041 $39,823 Closed
2015 Executive Branch Policy Fellowship Program NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications Society for Reseach in Child Development Inc. DC 2015-IJ-CX-K013 $196,570 Closed
2015 Exoneration of the Innocent in the State of Hawaii through Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII HI 2015-DY-BX-K002 $410,492 Closed
2015 Expanding on Total Body Score with Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Tennessee TN 2015-DN-BX-K019 $250,024 Closed
2015 Expansion and Development of the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff's Office Forensic Section NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Lewis and Clark County Sheriff's Office MT 2015-CD-BX-0076 $133,397 Closed
2015 Factors affecting the validity of a violence risk screening tool with psychiatric inpatients NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Fordham University NY 2015-IJ-CX-0006 $28,388 Closed
2015 Failure to Appear: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Victims Experience with the Juvenile Justice System and their Readiness to Change NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Board of Regents, NSHE obo University of Nevada Las Vegas NV 2015-VF-GX-0064 $623,607 Closed
2015 FFY 2015 State of Tennessee Forensic Science Improvement Application NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program State of Tennessee TN 2015-CD-BX-0030 $155,243 Closed
2015 FFY15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority IL 2015-CD-BX-0002 $307,861 Closed