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.

Showing Results For:

Number of Awards: 289
Total Amount Awarded: $135,694,274

Funded Awards
FY Sort descending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2014	Environmental Scan of Family Justice Centers in the United States	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence	Abt Associates Inc.	MA	2014-ZD-CX-0013	$299,971	Closed
2014	Establishing Exclusion Criteria and the Significance of Inclusion: Developing Tools for the Interpretation of Complex DNA Mixtures	NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Trustees of Boston University, BUMC	MA	2014-DN-BX-K026	$813,843	Closed
2014	Evaluation of a Service Provision Program for Victims of Sex Trafficking	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	Trustees of Boston University, BUMC	MA	2014-R2-CX-0005	$247,093	Closed
2014	Exploring a New Data Platform for Research on Human Trafficking Investigation, Prosecution, Sentencing, Time Served, and Recidivism	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	Abt Associates Inc.	MA	2014-R2-CX-0006	$492,113	Closed
2014	Gang Affiliation and Radicalization to Violent Extremism within Somali-American Communities	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism	Children''s Hospital Corporation	MA	2014-ZA-BX-0001	$331,241	Closed
2014	Implicit Racial Bias, Community Context, and Perceptions of Crime and Justice	NIJ FY 14 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture and Crime	Northeastern University	MA	2014-IJ-CX-0031	$49,679	Closed
2014	Improving the Quality and Timeliness of Forensic Science in Massachusetts	NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Massachusetts State Police	MA	2014-CD-BX-0018	$149,888	Closed
2014	Information Sharing and the Role of Sex Offender Registration and Notification	NIJ FY 14 Information Sharing and Its Effect on Tracking Sex Offenders and Community Awareness: Examining a Key Function of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2014-AW-BX-K003	$1,000,000	Closed
2014	Massachusetts Evidence Inventory and Innocence Case Review Project	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	Committee for Public Counsel Services	MA	2014-DY-BX-K003	$391,345	Closed
2014	Substance Abuse Treatment as a Mechanism to Reduce Drug Abuse and Crime	NIJ FY 14 Data Resources Program 2014: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data	National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.	MA	2014-R2-CX-0015	$39,996	Closed
2014	The prosecution of child sexual abuse: A partnership to improve outcomes	NIJ FY 14 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2014-MU-MU-0001	$498,333	Closed
2015	Advancing Human Trafficking Prevalence Estimation	NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	Abt Associates Inc.	MA	2015-MU-MU-0003	$996,870	Closed
2015	Boston Police Department-DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	City of Boston	MA	2015-DN-BX-0099	$283,811	Closed
2015	Capturing Human Trafficking Victimization through Crime Reporting	NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	Northeastern University	MA	2015-VF-GX-0105	$462,973	Closed
2015	Community-level influences on the sentencing of convicted sex offenders	NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2015-R2-CX-0039	$39,997	Closed
2015	Continuation Funding for 2014-R2-CX-0005	NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	Trustees of Boston University, BUMC	MA	2014-R2-CX-0005	$481,374	Closed
2015	DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Massachusetts State Police	MA	2015-DN-BX-0108	$1,275,624	Closed
2015	Encapsulated phase change nanoparticles as thermally-readable covert taggants	NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications	Northeastern University	MA	2012-DN-BX-K821	$305,965	Closed
2015	Engineering a high-fidelity, damage-tolerant polymerase for forensic analysis of damaged DNA samples	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Northeastern University	MA	2015-R2-CX-0011	$45,863	Closed
2015	Gang Affiliation and Radicalization to Violent Extremism within Somali-American Communities	NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	Children's Hospital Corporation	MA	2014-ZA-BX-0001	$463,910	Closed
2015	Implementation Studies: Comprehensive Gang Model Evaluation: Integrating Research Into Practice	NIJ FY 15 Social Science Research on Implementation, Dissemination, and Translation	Suffolk University	MA	2015-R2-CX-0013	$286,740	Closed
2015	Improving the Quality and Timeliness of Forensic Science in Massachusetts	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Massachusetts State Police	MA	2015-CD-BX-0059	$159,947	Closed
2015	Partner Violence Prevention for Middle School Boys: A Dyadic Web-Based Intervention	NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications	Northeastern University	MA	2014-MU-CX-4002	$791,846	Closed
2015	Racialized Cues and Support for Justice Reinvestment: A Mixed-Method Study of Public Opinion	NIJ FY 15 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime	University of Massachusetts Boston	MA	2015-IJ-CX-0003	$144,329	Closed
2015	Research Assistantship Program, VAIW	NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	President and Fellows of Harvard College	MA	2015-IJ-CX-0014	$72,446	Closed