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: 7,482
Total Amount Awarded: $3,959,529,045

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2020	Advances in Spatial Statistical Methodology for Urban Crime	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	PA	2020-R2-CX-0033	$60,065	Closed
2020	Advancing the Understanding of Immigration, Crime, and Crime Reporting at the Local Level with a Synthetic Population	Research into Immigration and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2020-R2-CX-0027	$899,954	Open
2020	Advancing Visual Analytics and Computational Science to Combat Human Trafficking	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION	GA	2019-R2-CX-4042	$86,428	Closed
2020	Adverse Impacts of Organizational Stress on Officer Health and Wellness: Causes, Correlates, and Mitigation	Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in Criminal Justice System, Fiscal Year 2020	NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE	VA	2020-R2-CX-0005	$832,000	Open
2020	Alibi Generation: Improving innocents suspects' accuracy and examining alibi discriminability using a novel GPS paradigm	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2020-R2-CX-0019	$83,840	Closed
2020	An Affinity-Free, Centrifugal Microfluidic System for Rapid, Automated Differential Extraction	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	VA	2020-DQ-BX-0024	$466,886	Past Project Period End Date
2020	An Assessment of Probabilistic Approaches to mtDNA Mixture Interpretation	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY	PA	2020-DQ-BX-0004	$205,963	Closed
2020	An Evaluation of a Statewide Approach to the Prevention and Intervention of Violence using School Threat Assessment Teams	Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2020	WESTED	CA	2020-MU-MU-0011	$852,868	Closed
2020	An examination of musculoskeletal markers in modern populations for forensic analysis and identification purposes	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-R2-CX-0042	$150,000	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Analysis of Small Particles Adhering to the Edges of Duct Tape as a Means to Make Associations in a Way that is Independent of Manufactured Characteristics	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	STONEY FORENSIC, INC.	VA	2020-MU-CX-0018	$871,366	Closed
2020	Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)	NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2016-MU-BX-K007	$4,288,461	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Assessing Class Consistency and Common Source Using 3D Virtual Comparison Microscopy in Firearm Forensics	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	CADRE RESEARCH LABS (ILLINOIS) LLC	IL	2020-DQ-BX-0028	$199,615	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Assessing the Effectiveness of the Second Chance Act Grant Program through a Phased Evaluation Approach Using an Implementation Science Mixed Methods Approach	Assessing the Effectiveness of the Second Chance Act Grant Program: A Phased Evaluation Approach, Fiscal Year 2020	GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC	GA	2020-CZ-BX-0014	$1,142,634	Open
2020	Assessing the Impact of Plea Bargaining on Subsequent Violence for Firearm Offenders	Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation of Firearms Violence, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	MD	2020-75-CX-0004	$369,412	Closed
2020	Assessing the Relationship between Immigration Status, Crime, Gang Affiliation, and Victimization	Research into Immigration and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020	CSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION	CA	2020-R2-CX-0028	$462,165	Closed
2020	Assessing the Strength of Trace Evidence Fracture Fits Through a Comprehensive, Systematic, and Quantifiable Approach	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2020-DQ-BX-0012	$466,543	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Assessment of the Contribution to Drug Impaired Driving from Emerging and Undertested Drugs	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION	PA	2020-DQ-BX-0009	$478,783	Closed
2020	Augmenting, Analyzing, and Archiving Criminal Trajectories in Four Birth Cohorts from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, 1995-2023	Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020	PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE	MA	2020-JX-FX-0002	$674,183	Open
2020	Automatic Acquisition and Identification of Footwear Class Characteristics	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	NE	2019-MU-MU-4096	$380,405	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Biomarkers of Cannabis Exposure in Exhaled Breath Condensate and Oral Fluid	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2020-DQ-BX-0011	$434,273	Open
2020	Body mass estimation using bone micro- and macro-structure: a practical approach using CT imaging and computer analysis	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-R2-CX-0048	$683,542	Open
2020	Building the Evidence Base on De-escalation Training for Law Enforcement: A Multi-Agency Randomized Control Trial	Research and Evaluation on Policing, Fiscal Year 2020	CINCINNATI UNIV OF	OH	2020-R2-CX-0026	$599,255	Open
2020	Characterizing and Preventing Domestic Terrorism: A Mixed-Methods Study of Five Far-Right Terrorist Groups	Research and Evaluation of Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2020	DEVELOPMENT SERVICES GROUP, INC	MD	2020-ZA-CX-0003	$998,599	Open
2020	Comparative Assessment of Emerging Technologies for Body Fluid Identification	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	THE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION	PA	2020-DQ-BX-0015	$501,115	Closed
2020	Comprehensive Assessment of Novel Reference Materials and Analytical Methods for the Analysis and Interpretation of Organic and Inorganic Gunshot Residues	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2020-DQ-BX-0010	$476,517	Past Project Period End Date