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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: CA

Number of Awards: 730
Total Amount Awarded: $388,702,991

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2005 DNA Capacity Enhancement Program
Fiscal Year 2005 		DNA Capacity Enhancement Program County of Ventura CA 2005-DA-BX-K039 $38,554 Closed
2009 What Promotes Resilience in Youth Exposed to Violence: A Multilevel Analysis NIJ FY 09 ORE Data Resources Program WestEd CA 2009-IJ-CX-0103 $38,000 Closed
2011 Moving Forward on Gang Prevention: Knowledge and Application NIJ FY 2011 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations University of Southern California CA 2008-IJ-CX-0016 $37,936 Closed
2004 Forensic Glass Analysis by LA-ICP-MS: Assessing the Feasibility of Correlating Windshield Composition and Supplier General Forensics Research and Development: Call for White Papers Sacramento County CA 2004-IJ-CX-K007 $36,053 Closed
2010 Legal change and sentencing norms in federal court: An examination of the impact of the Booker, Gall, and Kimbrough decisions NIJ FY 10 ORE Data Resources Program: Funding for the Analysis of Existing Data The Regents of the University of California CA 2010-IJ-CX-0010 $35,000 Closed
2008 Spreading the wealth: The effect of the distribution of income and race/ethnicity across households and neighborhoods on city crime trajectories NIJ FY 07/08 ORE Data Resources Program The Regents of the University of California CA 2008-IJ-CX-0020 $35,000 Closed
2004 Less Lethal Technology National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards - Office of Science and Technology The Aerospace Corp. CA 2004-IJ-CX-K052 $35,000 Closed
2005 Recidivism among Female Prisoners:Secondary Analysis of the 1994 BJS Recidivism Data Set Data Resources Program 2004: Funding for the Analysis of Existing Data California State University Fresno Foundation CA 2004-IJ-CX-0038 $35,000 Closed
2003 Determinants of Community Policing Implementation CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL DRUG COURT EVALUATION Rand Corporation CA 2003-IJ-CX-1034 $34,326 Closed
2005 County of San Mateo DNA Casework Reduction Program Forensic Casework Backlog Reduction Program San Mateo County CA 2005-DN-BX-K102 $33,212 Closed
2010 Evaluating High Dynamic Range (HDR) Processing with Regards to the Presence of Individualizing Characteristics in Shoeprint/Tireprint Impressions NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Pattern and Impression Evidence County of Ventura CA 2010-DN-BX-K038 $32,696 Closed
2015 California’s "Realignment": Understanding Local Legal Compliance in A Potential Era of Prison Downsizing NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences The Regents of the University of California CA 2015-IJ-CX-0001 $32,000 Closed
2016 Structural Inequality in School Discipline:Regulating Intolerance in Public Schools NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences The Regents of the University of California, Irvine CA 2016-R2-CX-0007 $32,000 Closed
2005 Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program
Fiscal Year 2005 		Forensic Casework Backlog Reduction Program County of Ventura CA 2005-DN-BX-K075 $32,000 Closed
2015 More than Mental Disorder: The Effects of Neighborhoods and Treatment on Recidivism for Probationers with Psychiatric Diagnoses NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences The Regents of the University of California CA 2015-IJ-CX-0004 $31,455 Closed
2005 Evaluation of Ultraviolet Radiation Absorbing Compounds in Textile Fibers Utilizing High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Mass Spectrometry (HPLC/MS) General Forensics Research and Development Full Applications Sacramento County CA 2005-IJ-CX-K008 $31,151 Closed
2016 You're Stressing Me Out: Adolescent Stress Response to Evaluation from Peers and its Effect on Risky Decision-Making NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences The Regents of the University of California, Irvine CA 2016-R2-CX-0009 $30,416 Closed
2009 Delivery of Two Online Training Modules (DNA and Fingerprints) for law enforcement, court officials and other forensic practitioners. NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Forensic Training Network, LLC CA 2009-DN-BX-K175 $30,000 Closed
2012 Under the Radar or Under Arrest: How does Contact with the Juvenile Justice System Impact Delinquency and Academic Achievement? NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program The Regents of the University of California CA 2012-IJ-CX-0020 $24,999 Closed
2010 Under the Penal Gaze: An empirical examination of penal consciousness among prison inmates NIJ FY 10 ORE Ph.D.Graduate Research Fellowship Program Regents of the University of California CA 2010-IJ-CX-0002 $24,950 Closed
2006 An Integrated Microfabricated Sample Cleanup and Electrophoresis Analyzer for High-Performance STR Typing Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2007 The Regents of the University of California CA 2007-DN-BX-0003 $20,000 Closed
2006 The Impact of Incarceration on Young Offender Recidivism Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2007 The Regents of the University of California CA 2007-IJ-CX-0007 $20,000 Closed
2008 Discourses of Death: Language, Juries and "Future Danger" in Texas Death Penalty Trials NIJ FY 09 ORE Graduate Research Fellowship The Regents of the University of California CA 2009-IJ-CX-0005 $20,000 Closed
2005 An Estimable Dynamic Model of Criminal Behavior Graduate Research Fellowship-Fall The Regents of the University of California CA 2006-IJ-CX-0002 $20,000 Closed
2006 From Inception to Implementation: How the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act has affected the case processing and sentencing of drug offenders in one California county Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2007 The Regents of the University of California CA 2007-IJ-CX-0031 $19,991 Closed