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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
2023 Pivoting Headspace Ethanol Analysis to Accommodate Modern Day Scenarios NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories VA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE VA 15PNIJ-23-GG-01424-MUMU $371,593 Open
2023 Police Supervision Redux: Examining Police Supervision in the 21st Century NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE VA 15PNIJ-23-GG-05488-RESS $1,000,000 Open
2023 Policing Leadership and Accountability: Harnessing Big Data and Causal Inference for Evaluating Police Reform Practices NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UT 15PNIJ-23-GG-05487-RESS $972,083 Open
2023 Positive Adolescent Interpersonal Relationships (PAIR): A Community-Based STRiV Study NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 15PNIJ-23-GG-01380-REVA $1,996,357 Open
2023 Pretrial Policy Change and Place: Evaluating the Impacts of Maryland's Bail Reform on Crime and Pretrial Outcomes across Courts NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE CA 15PNIJ-23-GG-01931-RESS $55,500 Open
2023 PRISONERS ON THE MOVE: EXAMINING THE NATURE AND EFFECTS OF PRISON TRANSIENCY ON INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI OH 15PNIJ-23-GG-01936-RESS $105,000 Open
2023 Procedural Justice in Jails NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Correctional Culture and Climate THE CNA CORPORATION VA 15PNIJ-23-GG-06105-MUMU $894,789 Open
2023 Quantification of psychotropic cannabinoids in newly emerging hemp-derived products and evaluation of their stability and interconversion during storage NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY IL 15PNIJ-23-GG-04234-RESS $251,505 Open
2023 Quantifying the accuracy of low quality DNA sample analysis from genotyping to genealogical searching and integration as a bioinformatic pipeline NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Funding to Support the Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Program UNIVERSITY OF OREGON OR 15PNIJ-23-AG-04262-DNAX $266,406 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023 Quantifying the strength of support in fingerprint casework comparisons NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04227-SLFO $609,185 Open
2023 Quantitative and visual prediction of eye, hair and skin color from DNA NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04206-RESS $980,527 Open
2023 Quantitative Assessment of Fracture Characteristics in Blunt Force Skeletal Trauma for Forensic Interpretations NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE OH 15PNIJ-23-GG-04219-SLFO $818,054 Open
2023 Rapid screening and identification of fentanyl in drug mixtures using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 15PNIJ-23-GG-04230-RESS $190,662 Open
2023 Recovery and Analysis of Less Volatile Components for the Identification of Ignitable Liquid Residues in Fire Debris - Continuation of current NIJ-funded project (2020-DQ-BX-0003) NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY TN 15PNIJ-23-GG-04223-RESS $99,818 Open
2023 Regulating Data Bias in Intelligent Decision Making NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY MA 15PNIJ-23-GG-01934-RESS $55,500 Closed
2023 Research & Evaluation of Boston's Community Violence Intervention & Prevention Initiative NIJ FY23 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research, Evaluation, and Associated Training & Technical Assistance Support SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY MA 15PNIJ-23-GG-04265-CVIP $328,407 Open
2023 Research and Development of an Approach for Non-invasive Determination of Cannabis Ingestion for Forensic Science Purposes NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 15PNIJ-23-GG-04236-RESS $291,801 Open
2023 Sampling and Selection Bias in Research using Documented Skeletal Collections NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 15PNIJ-23-GG-01939-RESS $78,656 Open
2023 Second looks for youth: An implementation evaluation of resentencing models in five jurisdictions NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Sentencing and Resentencing MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY NJ 15PNIJ-23-GG-04239-RESS $692,889 Open
2023 Secretariat for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37, Biometrics AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED DC 15PNIJ-21-GG-00662-RESS $57,425 Open
2023 Statistical Foundations of Score-Based Methods in Forensic Identification of Source Problems” NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY SD 15PNIJ-23-GG-04232-MUMU $612,286 Open
2023 Strengthening Scientific Foundations for Advancing Best Practices in the Collection, Storage, Analysis, and Interpretation of Organic and Inorganic Gunshot Residues NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 15PNIJ-23-GG-04218-SLFO $564,733 Open
2023 Study of Factors Influencing Mass Spectral Data Comparison NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories STATE POLICE, KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF KY 15PNIJ-23-GG-01428-RESS $69,835 Open
2023 Support Activities under Section 13(d) of Executive Order 14074: Workshops on Law Enforcement Use of Probabilistic DNA Technologies and Person-based Predictive Policing NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Support Activities under Section 13(d) of Executive Order 14074 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES DC 15PNIJ-23-GG-04263-NIJB $650,000 Open
2023 The Extremism Sentencing Study: Judicial Outcomes and Recidivism Among Individuals Convicted of International and Domestic Terrorism NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK MD 15PNIJ-23-GG-01384-DOMR $762,553 Open