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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.

Number of Awards: 7,391
Total Amount Awarded: $3,904,954,950

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2020 Investigating the Effectiveness of the School Security Climate on Student Connectedness and School Performance NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020 MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY NJ 2017-CK-BX-4008 $567,191 Closed
2010 Investigating the Impact of In-car Communication on Law Enforcement Officer Patrol Performance in an Advanced Driving Simulator NIJ FY 10 ORE Crime and Justice Research and Evaluation: Investigator Initiated Mississippi State University MS 2010-DJ-BX-2017 $190,331 Closed
2022 Investigating the Impacts of Architectural Finishes on Fire Patterns in Support of Developing Data-driven Tools for Pattern Analysis NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK MD 15PNIJ-22-GG-04442-RESS $531,257 Open
2015 Investigating the Impacts of Institutional and Contextual Factors on Protection Order Decision-Making NIJ FY 15 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2015-IJ-CX-0013 $369,928 Open
2006 Investigating the Simultaneous Effects of Individual, Program and Neighborhood Attributes on Juvenile Recidivism Using GIS and Spatial Data Mining NIJ FY06 ORE Crime and Justice Research TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2006-IJ-CX-0022 $316,712 Closed
2011 Investigating Unexplained Deaths through Molecular Autopsies NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2011-DN-BX-K535 $696,879 Closed
2016 Investigating upper thermal limits of forensically important blow flies to improve testimony in forensic entomology Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH TX 2016-DN-BX-0204 $540,545 Closed
2002 Investigation and Prosecution of Homicide: Examining the Fed The Impact of Economic, Political, and Social Variables Rand Corporation CA 2002-IJ-CX-0022 $1,332,979 Closed
2010 Investigation of a novel approach to forensic analysis using neutron imaging techniques NIJ FY 10 Fundamental Research to Improve Understanding of the Accuracy, Reliability, and Measurement Validity of Forensic Science Disciplines Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE) 2008-IJ-R-134-1 $499,261 Closed
2016 Investigation of a time-effective approach to the discrimination and interpretation of inkjet printer inks using micro Raman spectroscopy Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Sam Houston State University TX 2016-DN-BX-0164 $246,838 Closed
2013 Investigation of Post-Mortem Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Detection of Intraneural Hemorrhage NIJ FY 13 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center NM 2013-DN-BX-K004 $498,616 Closed
2018 Investigation of subadult dental age-at-death estimation using transition analysis and machine learning methods NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2018-DU-BX-0182 $898,550 Closed
2007 Investigation of the Effects of Increased Coverage Area for Soft Body Armor NIJ FY 07 Body Armor: Invited Full Proposals Lawrence Technological University MI 2007-DE-BX-K011 $399,655 Closed
2012 Investigation of the Impact of Body Temperature and Post-Mortem Interval on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of Unfixed Tissue NIJ FY 12 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center NM 2012-DN-BX-K019 $574,868 Closed
2017 Investigations on the Cellular and Morphologic Characteristics of Cranial Vault Fracture: Research and Development of a Time Since Fracture Protocol and Database NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MI 2017-DN-BX-0166 $576,060 Closed
2007 Investigations on the use of SampleMatrix to Collect and Stabilize Crime Scene Biological for Optimized Analysis and Room Temperature Storage NIJ FY 07 Research and Development on Crime Scene Tools, Techniques and Technologies: Invited Full Proposals Cal State L.A. University Auxiliary Services Inc CA 2007-DN-BX-K172 $353,449 Closed
2018 Investigative and Prosecutorial Strategies for Mitigating Pathways to Radicalization: Creation of a Federal Terrorism Court Record Repository NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Prevention and Mitigation of Domestic Pathways to Terrorism UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM AR 2018-ZA-CX-0003 $731,927 Closed
2005 Investigative Strategies for the Successful Prosecution of Intimate Partner Violence Violence Against Women Research & Evaluation Full Applications University of Alaska AK 2005-WG-BX-0011 $180,042 Closed
2005 Investigator-Initiated Research Proposal:Assessing the Validity of Voice Stress Analysis Tools in a Jail Setting NIJ/Office of Research & Evaluation Continuations Oklahoma Department of Mental Health And Substance Abuse Services OK 2005-IJ-CX-0047 $232,200 Closed
2014 Invitation to Apply for Funding to Support the Exploratory Research into the Intersection of Forced Marriage, Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Project FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Urban Institute DC 2013-VA-CX-0033 $393,046 Closed
2016 Invited Application between the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and Howard University (HU or Howard) in support of NIJ’s Research Assistantship Program Non-solicited Applications Howard University DC 2016-IJ-CX-K007 $62,786 Closed
2022 Ionic liquid-solvated near infrared dyes for detection of trace blood spatter in textiles under ambient lighting conditions NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MS 15PNIJ-22-GG-04427-RESS $431,907 Open
2004 Iowa Criminalistics Laboratory DNA Capacity Improvement DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Formula Grant Announcement, FY04 State of Iowa IA 2004-DN-BX-K110 $170,384 Closed
2010 Is Burglary a Crime of Violence? NIJ FY 10 ORE Data Resources Program: Funding for the Analysis of Existing Data Research Foundation of CUNY c/o John Jay College NY 2010-IJ-CX-0009 $37,990 Closed
2006 Isolation of Highly-Specific Protein Markers for the Identification of Biological Stains: Adapting Comparative Proteomics to Forensics NIJ FY06 Forensic DNA Research and Development Solicitation: Invited Full Applications University of Denver CO 2006-DN-BX-K001 $186,602 Closed