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: 7,470
Total Amount Awarded: $3,955,441,280

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2018	RF Fingerprinting for Contraband Wireless Devices Identification, Detection and Tracking in Correctional Facilities.	NIJ FY18 Communications Technologies Research and Evaluation for Law Enforcement and Corrections Applications	MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY	MS	2018-75-CX-K002	$599,121	Closed
2018	Rigorous Evaluation of the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice's Second Chance Act Reentry Reform	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	CHILD TRENDS, INCORPORATED	MD	2018-CZ-BX-0026	$985,433	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Risk Assessment Implementation and Youth Outcomes: A Multi-Method Study Spanning The Juvenile Justice System	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	University of Cincinnati	OH	2014-MU-FX-0006	$910,045	Closed
2018	Seasonal Effects on Carrion Decomposition and Insect Colonization	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS	CA	2017-R2-CX-0004	$48,630	Closed
2018	Setting Up for Success: Improving Defendant's Court Appearance Rates with Behaviorally-Informed Pretrial Notification Protocols	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice	NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS	VA	2018-R2-CX-0029	$249,071	Open
2018	Sex and Ancestry Estimation Methods in Modern Filipino Crania	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2017-IJ-CX-0008	$41,856	Closed
2018	Software tool and methodology for enhancement of unidentified decedent systems with postmortem automatic iris recognition	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC	IN	2018-DU-BX-0215	$642,979	Closed
2018	Soil fungal and nematode community changes as a methodology for determining long-term postmortem interval after cadaver mass loss	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2017-R2-CX-0008	$50,000	Closed
2018	Solve Crime. Build Trust? Investigating Homicides and Shootings in Los Angeles	NIJ FY18 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices	JUSTICE AND SECURITY STRATEGIES, INC.	MD	2018-75-CX-0003	$500,000	Closed
2018	Solving Cases of Sudden Unexpected Natural Death in the Young through Comprehensive Postmortem Genetic Testing	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	NEW YORK, CITY OF	NY	2018-DU-BX-0204	$450,243	Closed
2018	Stable Isotope Analysis as a Geospatial Tool for Identification: Intra-Individual Isotopic Variability	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2018-DU-BX-0217	$570,624	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Statistical Infrastructure for the Use of Error Rate Studies in the Interpretation of Forensic Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	George Mason University	VA	2018-DU-BX-0228	$197,669	Closed
2018	Structural Characterization of Emerging Synthetic Drugs	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2018-75-CX-0033	$368,415	Closed
2018	Testing a ''not sure'' instruction as a prophylactic against the harmful impact of system and estimator variables on lineup identification accuracy	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2018-R2-CX-0030	$183,059	Closed
2018	Testing new methods for degraded DNA recovery and next-generation sequencing	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2018-DU-BX-0218	$669,898	Closed
2018	Testing the Efficacy of Pretrial Diversion: A Randomized Trial at the San Francisco Neighborhood Courts	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice	THE RAND CORPORATION	CA	2018-R2-CX-0028	$750,000	Closed
2018	The Effect of Altitude on Decomposition: Toward an Understanding of the Postmortem Interval in the Rocky Mountain Region.	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY	IL	2018-R2-CX-0014	$106,701	Closed
2018	The Final Stage Reentry Project: An RCT of Expungement and its Effect on Recidivism, Housing, and Employment	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives	PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE	MA	2019-RY-BX-0001	$1,129,918	Open
2018	The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE	TN	2018-DU-BX-0180	$726,629	Closed
2018	The Impact of Individualized Focused Deterrence on Criminal and Pro-Social Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Study of the St. Louis Police Partnership	NIJ FY18 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices	THE CNA CORPORATION	VA	2018-75-CX-0001	$635,300	Past Project Period End Date
2018	The influence of social surroundings on juvenile and criminal justice involvement of 17-year-olds transitioning from foster care to adulthood: A longitudinal and life-course approach	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Social and Behavioral Sciences	The University of Chicago	IL	2018-R2-CX-0007	$32,000	Closed
2018	The Nature, Trends, Correlates and Prevention of Mass Public Shootings in America, 1976-2018	NIJ FY18 Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence	NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY	MA	2018-75-CX-0025	$498,929	Past Project Period End Date
2018	The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression	NIJ FY18 Continuations	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE	TN	2017-IJ-CX-0007	$49,616	Closed
2018	The PbS Learning Institute, the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA), and the VERA Institute of Justice, propose to develop new reentry measurement standards.	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	PbS Learning Institute, Inc.	MA	2015-CZ-BX-K002	$750,000	Closed
2018	Through the E-Cigarette Looking Glass: The Impact of Vaping Ethanol on DUI Investigations	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2018-75-CX-0036	$517,961	Closed