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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Number of Awards: 145
Total Amount Awarded: $82,450,594

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State Sort descending	Award Number	Amount	Status
2013	An innovative response to an intractable problem: Using village public safety officers to enhance the criminal justice response to violence committed against Indian women in Alaska's tribal community	NIJ FY 13 Evaluating the Effectiveness of State, Local, and Tribal Responses to Violence Committed Against Indian Women Living in Tribal Communities	University of Alaska Anchorage	AK	2013-VW-CX-0001	$294,317	Closed
2015	FY2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Alaska Dept of Public Safety	AK	2015-DN-BX-0087	$265,365	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
2008	Jurors'' Judgments About Forensic Identification Evidence	NIJ FY 08 ORE Social Science Research in Forensic Sciences	Arizona State University	AZ	2008-DN-BX-0003	$496,450	Closed
2009	Police Decision Making In Sexual Assault Cases: An Analysis of Crimes Reported to the Los Angeles Police Department, 2006-2008	NIJ FY09 Research and Evaluation on Sexual and Teen Dating Violence	Arizona State University	AZ	2009-WG-BX-0009	$204,492	Closed
2008	Arizona Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Project	NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Arizona Criminal Justice Commission	AZ	2008-DN-BX-K145	$1,386,699	Closed
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
2015	FY 2015 City of Phoenix Police Department DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program.	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	City of Phoenix Police Department	AZ	2015-DN-BX-0122	$451,749	Closed
2016	Children Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Criminal Trials: Assessing Defense Attacks on Credibility and Identifying Effective Prosecution Methods	New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University	AZ	2016-R2-CX-0050	$149,857	Closed
2013	Forensic Markers of Physical Elder Abuse: Establishing a Medical Characterization and Identifying the Criminal Justice Approach to Investigation and Prosecution	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuls and Residents of Residential Care Facilities	University of Southern California	CA	2013-IJ-CX-0025	$518,327	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
2013	Evaluating the Effect of Holistic Indigent Defense Services on Case Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in the Bronx	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Justice Systems: Investigator-Initiated	RAND Corporation	CA	2013-IJ-CX-0027	$334,998	Closed
2013	Blind Collaborative Justice: Testing the Impact of Expert Blinding and Consensus Building on the Validity of Forensic Testimony	NIJ FY 13 Social Science Research on Forensic Science	RAND Corporation	CA	2013-IJ-CX-0002	$337,306	Closed
2006	Comparative Sentencing: The Effect of Mandatory and Advisory Constraints on Judicial Decision-Making	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2007	The Regents of the University of California; University of California, San Diego	CA	2007-IJ-CX-0015	$19,465	Closed
2009	How Accurately Do Eyewitnesses Determine if a Person is Familiar and How Does this Affect Plea Bargaining Decisions by Prosecution and Defense Attorneys?	NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research	Claremont Graduate University	CA	2009-IJ-CX-0019	$225,130	Closed
2013	California DNA Assistance Program	NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Governor's Office of Emergency Services	CA	2013-DY-BX-K003	$962,489	Closed
2006	The Role and Impact of Forensic Evidence on the Criminal Justice Process	NIJ FY06 ORE Social Science Research & Forensic Evidence	Cal State LA University Auxiliary Services, Inc.	CA	2006-DN-BX-0094	$600,000	Closed
2009	The Effects of Defense Counsel on the Outcomes of Homicide and Death Penalty Prosecutions	NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research	RAND Corporation	CA	2009-IJ-CX-0013	$149,898	Closed
2008	FY2008 Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement - San Francisco Police Department	NIJ FY 08 Forensic DNA Unit Efficiency Improvement	San Francisco Police Department	CA	2008-DN-BX-K189	$1,024,467	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
2011	California DNA Assistance Program	NIJ FY 11 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Governor's Office of Emergency Services	CA	2011-DY-BX-K001	$2,239,121	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
2009	Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Governor's Office of Emergency Services	CA	2009-DY-BX-K240	$2,500,000	Closed
2017	Can Jury Instructions Have an Impact on Trial Outcomes	NIJ FY17 W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE	CA	2017-IJ-CX-0044	$489,085	Closed
2018	Testing the Efficacy of Pretrial Diversion: A Randomized Trial at the San Francisco Neighborhood Courts	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice	THE RAND CORPORATION	CA	2018-R2-CX-0028	$750,000	Closed