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 Sort descending	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2017	Quantifying the Impact of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors to Improve Juvenile Age Estimation	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	NV	2017-DN-BX-0144	$561,528	Closed
2007	Quantifying the Specific Deterrent Effects of DNA Databases	NIJ FY 07 ORE Social Science Research & Forensic Evidence	The Urban Institute	DC	2007-DN-BX-0001	$150,815	Closed
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
2013	Quantitative Algorithm for the Digital Comparison of Torn Duct Tape	NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA	CA	2013-R2-CX-K009	$150,000	Closed
2010	Quantitative Analysis of High Velocity Bloodstain Patterns: A Double Blind Investigation of Impact Velocity Assessment	NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Pattern and Impression Evidence	University of California at Davis	CA	2010-DN-BX-K039	$248,799	Closed
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
2002	Quantitative Assessment of Handwriting	Paul Coverdell National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act Grant - FY2002	Research Foundation of SUNY	NY	2002-LT-BX-K007	$298,237	Closed
2004	Quantitative Assessment of the Discriminative Power of Handwriting	National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards - Office of Science and Technology	Research Foundation of SUNY	NY	2004-IJ-CX-K050	$490,700	Closed
2005	Quantitative Assessment of the Individuality of Friction Ridge Patterns	Friction Ridge Analysis Research	Research Foundation of SUNY	NY	2005-DD-BX-K012	$596,478	Closed
2020	Quantitative Evaluation of Footwear Evidence: Advancing the Footwear Impression Comparison System (FICS) towards Casework Application	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0010	$609,700	Open
2008	Quantitative GC/MS for Medical Examiner's Office	NIJ FY 08 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program	Maricopa County Arizona	AZ	2008-CD-BX-0074	$95,000	Closed
2010	Quantitative LC/MS/MS for the Medical Examiner's Office	FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Maricopa County	AZ	2010-CD-BX-0101	$175,000	Closed
2017	Quantitative Measures for Footwear Impression Comparisons	NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	$598,315		DJO-NIJ-17-RO-0202	$598,315	Closed
2009	Quantitative Measures in Support of Latent Print Comparison	NIJ FY 09 Research and Development in Forensic Analysis of Impression Evidence: Invited Full Proposals	The Research Foundation of State University of New York	NY	2009-DN-BX-K208	$498,784	Closed
2015	Quantitative Tools for Examination of Microscopic Fracture Surface Topology and Degradation for Physical Match Analysis of Evidence	NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Iowa State University of Science and Technology	IA	2015-DN-BX-K056	$445,341	Closed
2020	Queering the American Family: Same-Sex Couples and the Marriage Green Card Process	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	CORNELL UNIVERSITY	NY	2020-R2-CX-0018	$150,000	Open
2015	Questioning Bias: Validating a Bias Crime Victim Assessment Tool in California and New Jersey	NIJ FY 15 Research on Bias Crime Victimization	Vera Institute of Justice	NY	2015-R2-CX-0037	$498,893	Closed
2011	Race and Drug Arrests: Specific Deterrence and Collateral Consequences	NIJ FY 11 W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program	University of South Florida	FL	2011-IJ-CX-0004	$93,553	Closed
2012	Race, Juvenile Court Processing and Case Outcomes: Fluctuation or Stability?	NIJ FY 12 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data	University of South Florida	FL	2012-IJ-CX-0051	$38,167	Closed
2017	Racial and ethnic differences in non-fatal firearm injuries	NIJ FY17 Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2017-IJ-CX-0018	$693,695	Closed
2015	Racial and Ethnic Differences in Youth's Mental Health and Substance Needs and Services: Findings from the Survey of Youth in Residential Placement (SYRP)	NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program	Westat, Inc.	MD	2015-JF-FX-0143	$39,648	Closed
2013	Racial Discrimination, Racial Socialization, Gender, and Crime: Understanding Mechanisms and Developmental Pathways	NIJ FY 13 W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship on Race, Gender, Culture and Crime FY 2013	AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University	AZ	2013-IJ-CX-0022	$98,120	Closed
2016	Racial Disparities in Virgina Felony Court Cases	W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime	RAND Corporation	CA	2016-R2-CX-0042	$99,517	Closed
2015	Racialized Cues and Support for Justice Reinvestment: A Mixed-Method Study of Public Opinion	NIJ FY 15 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime	University of Massachusetts Boston	MA	2015-IJ-CX-0003	$144,329	Closed