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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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State: PA,
District: 18

Number of Awards: 46
Total Amount Awarded: $17,744,329

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2009 Extension of Current Estimates of Redemption Times: Robustness Testing, Out-of State Arrests, and Racial Differences NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research Carnegie Mellon University PA 2009-IJ-CX-0008 $247,554 Closed
2007 Potential for Redemption in Criminal Background Checks NIJ FY 07 ORE Crime & Justice Research Carnegie Mellon University PA 2007-IJ-CX-0041 $62,459 Closed
2011 Redemption for Reintegrating Prisoners in the Era of Widespread Background Checks NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Justice Systems Carnegie Mellon University PA 2011-IJ-CX-0012 $86,614 Closed
2016 Point process modeling with spatiotemporal covariates for predicting crime NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Carnegie Mellon University PA 2016-R2-CX-0021 $49,548 Closed
2017 A Point Process Model with Spatiotemporal Covariates for Predicting Crime NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Carnegie Mellon University PA 2016-R2-CX-0021 $49,548 Closed
2005 FaceNorm - Normalization Plug-in for Improved Face Recognition of Non-Cooperative Individuals Sensors, Surveillance and Biometrics Technologies for Criminal Justice Application Full Applications Carnegie Mellon University PA 2005-IJ-CX-K057 $496,737 Closed
2004 HandShot ID: A Fast 3-D Imaging System for Capturing Fingerprints, Palm Prints and Hand Geometry FAST CAPTURE FINGERPRINT/PALM PRINT TECHNOLOGY Carnegie Mellon University PA 2005-IJ-CX-K046 $773,341 Closed
2001 Development of Crime Forecasting and Mapping Systems for Use by Police Process Evaluations in Four Tribal Drug Courts Carnegie Mellon University PA 2001-IJ-CX-0018 $233,500 Closed
2007 HandShot ID: A Fast 3-D Imaging System for Capturing Fingerprints, Palm Prints, and Hand Geometry National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Carnegie Mellon University PA 2005-IJ-CX-K046 $760,000 Closed
2015 Adaptive Expert System that Learns to Detect and Track Patterns of Crime in Internet Advertisements NIJ FY 15 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Carnegie Mellon University PA 2013-IJ-CX-K007 $239,670 Closed
2012 Joint Proposal of the Allegheny County Police and Allegheny County Medical Examiner to Solve Cold Cases with DNA. NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA County of Allegheny PA 2012-DN-BX-K012 $169,536 Closed
2008 Allegheny County Police - Audio/Video Forensic Unit 2008 Improvement Project NIJ FY 08 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program County of Allegheny PA 2008-CD-BX-0065 $95,000 Closed
2014 Pursuing Equitable Restorative Communities NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe School District of Pittsburgh PA 2014-CK-BX-0020 $3,021,407 Closed
2008 Pathways to Desistance NIJ FY 08 ORE Crime and Justice University of Pittsburgh PA 2008-IJ-CX-0023 $995,707 Closed
2010 An Examination of Resident Abuse in Assisted Living Facilities NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of the Elderly and Residents of Residential Care Facilities UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PA 2010-IJ-CX-0023 $466,441 Closed
2008 Study Group on Violence and Serious Offending in Late Adolescence and Young Adulthood NIJ FY 08 ORE Crime and Justice University of Pittsburgh PA 2008-IJ-CX-K402 $434,245 Closed
2016 Recommendation System for Statutory Interpretation in Cybercrime NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics University of Pittsburgh PA 2016-R2-CX-0010 $49,356 Closed
2017 Recommendation System for Statutory Interpretation in Cybercrime NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of Pittsburgh PA 2016-R2-CX-0010 $49,356 Closed
2018 Recommendation System for Statutory Interpretation in Cybercrime NIJ FY18 Continuations University of Pittsburgh PA 2016-R2-CX-0010 $49,356 Closed
2018 Novel Quantitation Workflow for Improved Drug Surveillance NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2018-75-CX-0006 $624,989 Closed
2021 ABCD Social Development (ABCD-SD) NIJ FY17 ABCD Sub-Study on Social Development UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE PA 2017-MU-CX-0044 $1,999,128 Open