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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.

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This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

Number of Awards: 7,311
Total Amount Awarded: $3,856,761,547

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2021 Enhanced mixture interpretation with long-read DNA sequencing Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 15PNIJ-21-GG-04159-RESS $484,798 Closed
2021 Enhancing Procedural Justness of Encounters Through Substantiation (EPJETS): The Atlantic County Randomized Controlled Trial. Research and Evaluation on Policing, Fiscal Year 2021 STOCKTON UNIVERSITY NJ 15PNIJ-21-GG-02718-RESS $702,956 Open
2021 Evaluability assessment and development of psychological and behavioral health approaches to prevent terrorism and facilitate reintegration of violent extremists. Research and Evaluation on Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2021 HARVARD COLLEGE PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MA 15PNIJ-21-GG-02727-DOMR $981,026 Past Project Period End Date
2021 Evaluating the Efficacy of the SAFeR Approach to Improving Legal Responses to IPV: A Randomized Controlled Trial Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IL 15PNIJ-21-GG-02800-REVA $1,221,556 Open
2021 Evaluating the OHTS Tool and Assessing Outcomes for Human Trafficking Survivors Research and Evaluation of Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2021 THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 15PNIJ-21-GG-03631-MUMU $648,715 Open
2021 Evaluation of Heat Flux Profiles Through Walls in Support of Fire Model Validation Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES INC IL 15PNIJ-21-GG-04167-RESS $335,000 Closed
2021 Evaluation of Project Safe Neighborhoods Evaluation of Project Safe Neighborhoods, FY 2019 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2019-75-CX-0008 $3,000,000 Open
2021 Evaluation of the Occurrence and Associative Value of NonIdentifiable Fingermarks on Unfired Ammunition in Handguns for Evidence Supporting Proof of Criminal Possession, Use and Intent Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 STONEY FORENSIC, INC VA 15PNIJ-21-GG-04192-RESS $330,044 Past Project Period End Date
2021 Examining the multifaceted impacts of drug decriminalization on public safety, law enforcement, and prosecutorial discretion NIJ Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, Fiscal Year 2021 PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY OR 15PNIJ-21-GG-02804-RESS $495,596 Past Project Period End Date
2021 Expert Algorithm for Substance Identification (EASI) Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 15PNIJ-21-GG-04179-COAP $327,405 Closed
2021 Fatal and Non-Fatal Intimate Partner and Family Violence Against Older Women: An Exploration of Age and Police Response to Inform Research, Policy and Practice Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2021 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY DC 15PNIJ-21-GG-02801-REVA $195,135 Open
2021 FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, Fiscal Year 2021 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS $300,000 Open
2021 Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, Fiscal Year 2021 Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, Fiscal Year 2021 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 15PNIJ-21-GK-02192-MUMU $4,200,000 Open
2021 From Dot Coms to Pipe Bombs: Online Radicalization and Mobilization to Violence Research and Evaluation on Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AR 15PNIJ-21-GG-02725-DOMR $893,721 Open
2021 FY 2021 MDSP - Expanding Targeted Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) Capabilities for Controlled Substance Analysis Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2021 MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE MD 15PNIJ-21-GG-02713-COAP $96,741 Open
2021 Illuminating the Dark: Molecular Networking as a Novel Psychoactive Substance Identification Strategy Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM WI 15PNIJ-21-GG-04171-COAP $271,842 Open
2021 Improved Nucleic Acid Recovery From Trace and Degraded Samples Using Affinity Purification Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY NY 15PNIJ-21-GG-04149-RESS $499,518 Closed
2021 Improving Age-at-Death Estimates from Human Skeletal Remains Through Spatial Analysis of Intracortical Remodeling Using Geographic Information Systems Software Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-21-GG-04136-SLFO $349,970 Open
2021 Improving identification of unknown American Indians and Hispanic/Latinx Americans Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO NM 15PNIJ-21-GG-04139-SLFO $532,833 Past Project Period End Date
2021 Improving investigations and community relations through the training of evidence-based interviewing skills in frontline officers Research and Evaluation on Policing, Fiscal Year 2021 TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-21-GG-02716-RESS $497,785 Open
2021 Improving the Response to Victims of Child Sexual Exploitation Materials: A Multi-Method, Multi-Informant National Study Research to Reduce Trauma for Child Pornography Victims, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE NH 15PNIJ-21-GG-02983-MUMU $1,491,313 Open
2021 In search of: Police responses to those experiencing homelessness Research and Evaluation on the Police Response to Homelessness, Fiscal Year 2021 TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 15PNIJ-21-GG-02709-RESS $1,457,606 Open
2021 Incidence of ideologically influenced threatening and violent activity in rural communities Research and Evaluation on Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2021 BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 15PNIJ-21-GG-02722-DOMR $772,955 Open
2021 Juvenile Justice Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis: Responses, and Opportunities for Reform Research on Juvenile Justice Topics, Fiscal Year 2021 JUSTICE INFORMATION RESOURCE NETWORK INC. DC 15PNIJ-21-GG-03266-RESS $597,283 Past Project Period End Date
2021 Labor trafficking in construction and hospitality: Analyzing victim recruitment, exploitation, and service needs to identify strategies for prevention and intervention Research and Evaluation of Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2021 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 15PNIJ-21-GG-03632-HT $975,209 Past Project Period End Date