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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.
Description

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

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient Sort descending State Award Number Amount Status
2010 Tools for improving the quality of aged, degraded, damaged, or otherwise compromised DNA evidence NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Research and Development Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System WI 2010-DN-BX-K190 $999,825 Closed
2005 A Reexamination of the Criminal Deterrent Effects: Capital Punishment and Concealed Handgun Laws Data Resources Program-Fall Board of Regents of The University of Wisconsin System WI 2005-IJ-CX-0020 $32,356 Closed
2015 Failure to Appear: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Victims Experience with the Juvenile Justice System and their Readiness to Change NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Board of Regents, NSHE obo University of Nevada Las Vegas NV 2015-VF-GX-0064 $623,607 Closed
2016 The Combination of Cranial Morphoscopic and Dental Morphological Methods to Improve the Forensic Estimation of Ancestry NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Board of Regents, NSHE obo University of Nevada, Reno NV 2016-DN-BX-0003 $31,974 Closed
2009 Effects of Data Quality on Predictive Hotspot Mapping NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada Las Vegas NV 2009-IJ-CX-0022 $193,040 Closed
2017 Development of Modern Subadult Standards: Improved Age and Sex Estimation in U.S. Forensic Practice NIJ FY17 Non-solicited Applications Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada Reno NV 2015-DN-BX-K409 $404,255 Open
2009 Developing a high throughput protocol for using soil molecular biology as trace evidence NIJ FY 09 Research and Development in Forensis Analysis of Trace Evidence: Invited Full Proposals Board of Regents, Univ of Nebraska, Univ if Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2009-DN-BX-K199 $142,475 Closed
2008 Reducing Courts' Failure to Appear Rate: A Procedural Justice Approach NIJ FY 08 ORE Crime and Justice Board of Regents, Univ of Nebraska, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2008-IJ-CX-0022 $197,507 Closed
2014 Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Probationer Decision Making: A Social Cognitive Model NIJ FY 14 Research on Offender Decision Making and Desistance from Crime Board of Regents, Univ of Nebraska, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2014-MU-CX-0006 $641,614 Closed
2016 The Influence of Subjective and Objective Rural School Security on Law Enforcement Engagement Models: A Mixed Methods Study Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Board of Regents, Univ of Nebraska, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2016-CK-BX-0019 $645,952 Closed
2011 Evaluation of location-based services for police: GPS-enabled cell phones and laptops for applications of law enforcement patrol NIJ FY 11 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Board of Regents, University of Nebraska - Lincoln NE 2010-DE-BX-K001 $200,000 Closed
2010 Evaluation of location-based services for police: GPS-enabled cell phones and laptops for applications of law enforcement patrol NIJ FY 10 Geospatial Technology Board of Regents, University of Nebraska - Lincoln NE 2010-DE-BX-K001 $294,516 Closed
2010 Establishing Blow Fly Development and Sampling Procedures to Estimate Postmortem Intervals NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations Board of Regents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2010-DN-BX-K231 $483,323 Closed
2012 How Justice System Realign in California: The Policies and Systematic Effects of Prison Downsizing NIJ FY 12 Office of Research and Evaluation ORE Continuations Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University CA 2012-IJ-CX-0002 $145,445 Closed
2012 Understanding Influence Across Justice Agencies: The Spread of Community Reformsfrom Law Enforcement to Prosecutor Organizations NIJ FY 12 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University IL 2012-R2-CX-0022 $20,818 Closed
2015 School Climate Enhancement and Bullying Prevention in Southern Illinois NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University IL 2015-CK-BX-0011 $786,409 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
2014 Advanced statistical population genetics methods for forensic DNA identification. NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University CA 2014-DN-BX-K015 $589,868 Closed
2013 Highly Parallel Analysis of Complex Genetic Mixtures NIJ FY 13 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University CA 2013-DN-BX-K010 $1,064,073 Closed
2015 Automation of Differential Extraction with Sperm Quantitation usingMicrofluidic-Integrated Shadow Imaging System for Forensic Applications NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University CA 2015-DN-BX-K037 $614,499 Closed
2007 Enabling Initial Computer Investigation by Non-Expert Enforcement Personnel NIJ FY 07 Electronic Crime and Digital Evidence Recovery: Invited Full Proposals Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois IL 2007-DN-BX-K186 $320,458 Closed
2011 Forensic Evidence and Criminal Justice Outcomes in a Statewide Sample of Sexual Assault Cases NIJ FY 11 Social Science Research in Forensic Science Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois IL 2011-WG-BX-0005 $97,519 Closed
2009 Cyberinvestigation Law Enforcement Wizard Supplement NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois IL 2007-DN-BX-K186 $150,000 Closed
2008 Enabling Initial Computer Investigation by Non-Expert Enforcement Personnel NIJ Office of Science and Technology Continuations Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois IL 2007-DN-BX-K186 $150,000 Closed
2006 Jihad, Crime and the Internet NIJ FY06 ORE Continuations Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at Chicago IL 2006-IJ-CX-0038 $275,802 Closed