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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

Number of Awards: 243
Total Amount Awarded: $124,679,212

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2014 Policing predicted crime areas: An operationally-realistic randomized, controlled field experiment NIJ FY 14 Testing Geospatial Predictive Policing Strategies TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2014-R2-CX-0002 $425,512 Closed
2006 2006 Pennsylvania Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY06 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Solicitation Pennsylvania Commission On Crime And Delinquency PA 2006-DN-BX-0072 $423,929 Closed
1996 Identifying Correlates of Police Deviance: An Empirical Study of Police Corruption and Brutality in New York (1975-1996) Unintended Impacts of Sentencing Reforms & Incarceration on Family Structure The Ohio State University Research Foundation PA 1996-IJ-CX-0053 $413,328 Closed
2019 Identification of Anticoagulant Adulterants in Seized Material and Biological Samples Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION PA 2019-DU-BX-0020 $412,100 Closed
2017 Assessing automated image analysis and stable isotope signatures for small arms propellant differentiation and brand identification NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PA 2017-MU-CX-0043 $404,510 Closed
2005 PA NFSIA 2005 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Pennsylvania Commission On Crime And Delinquency PA 2005-DN-BX-0126 $402,381 Closed
2009 Cell Phone Forensics Examination and Analysis Training NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program BKForensics PA 2009-DN-BX-K169 $400,000 Closed
2007 Provide Cell Phone Forensic Training, hardware and software to state and local law enforcment. Training is based on an established program. Each class consist of eighteen attendees and two instructor. NIJ FY 07 Training and Assistance for Criminal Justice Professionals in the Collection and Use of DNA Evidence BKForensics PA 2007-DN-BX-K204 $400,000 Closed
2008 Cell Phone Forensic Training, Hardware, and Software NIJ Office of Science and Technology Continuations BKForensics PA 2007-DN-BX-K204 $400,000 Closed
2008 Recovery and Interpretation of Burned Human Remains NIJ FY 08 Research and Development in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Invited Full Proposals Mercyhurst College PA 2008-DN-BX-K131 $399,240 Closed
2016 High-throughput DNA Sequencing of Environmentally Insulted Latent and Partial Bloody Fingerprints After Visualization with the Nanoscale Columnar-Thin-Film Technique Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE PA 2016-DN-BX-0153 $397,643 Closed
2004 Wildlife DNA Profiling and Foresnics National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards - Office of Science and Technology State System of Higher Education PA 2004-LP-CX-K012 $397,400 Closed
2002 Geographic Tools to Improve Officer Safety in Correctional I The Impact of Economic, Political, and Social Variables The Ohio State University Research Foundation PA 2002-MU-MU-0016 $397,394 Closed
2005 DNA Capacity Enhancement Grant FY2005- Philadelphia Police DNA Capacity Enhancement Program City of Philadelphia PA 2005-DA-BX-K104 $382,594 Closed
2008 2008 Forensic DNA Efficiency Improvement Project NIJ FY 08 Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement ALLEGHENY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA PA 2008-DN-BX-K191 $382,309 Closed
2015 Monitoring Changes in the Novel Psychoactive Substance (NPS) Market through Enhanced Identification of Emerging Drugs and their Metabolites in Biological Samples NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Fredric Rieders Family Renaissance Foundation PA 2015-IJ-CX-K012 $378,153 Closed
2002 Evaluation of Drug Treatement at the State Correctional Institution at Chester: A Partnership Between the PA Doc, The Impact of Economic, Political, and Social Variables The Ohio State University Research Foundation PA 2002-RT-BX-1002 $376,180 Closed
2001 Culturally-Focused Batterer Counseling for African-American Process Evaluations in Four Tribal Drug Courts Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Office of Grants & Sponsored Research PA 2001-WT-BX-0003 $356,321 Closed
2015 Instilling a Culture of Continuous Learning From Criminal Justice System Errors: A Multi-Stakeholder Sentinel Event Review of Process in Philadelphia NIJ FY 15 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania PA 2015-R2-CX-K040 $351,052 Open
2008 This project will test, with a randomized controlled trial, an intensive community supervision strategy for probationers and parolees who are at extremely high risk of committing homicidal acts. NIJ FY 08 ORE Crime and Justice Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania PA 2008-IJ-CX-0024 $350,000 Closed
2009 Non-Residential Domestic Violence Services: Survivors' Experiences NIJ FY09 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence PA 2009-IJ-CX-0027 $350,000 Closed
2004 Pennsylvania Task Force on Prison Overcrowding National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards - Office of Research and Evaluation County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania PA 2004-IJ-CX-0007 $347,725 Closed
2011 FY11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Allegheny County Pennsylvania NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Allegheny County Pennsylvania PA 2011-DN-BX-K419 $341,929 Closed
2004 City of Philadelphia DNA Capacity Enhancement Program DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Formula Grant Announcement, FY04 City of Philadelphia PA 2004-DN-BX-K094 $329,313 Closed
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