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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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Subtopic: Gangs

Number of Awards: 43
Total Amount Awarded: $25,037,433

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Sort ascending Award Number Amount Status
2001 National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards Noblis Inc. VA 2001-LT-BX-K002 $997,796 Closed
2020 Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation of Firearms Violence, Fiscal Year 2020 TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY TX 2020-75-CX-0009 $435,020 Closed
2022 Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearm Violence SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-22-AG-00266-NIJB $278,976 Open
2017 Quantifying Gang Locations: A systematic test of validity using a partial test of Messick''s Unified Perspective NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2017-IJ-CX-0014 $31,998 Closed
2019 Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adolescent Gang Membership: Utilizing Latent Class Analysis to Understand the Relationship Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, FY 2019 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2019-R2-CX-0009 $50,000 Closed
2017 Disrupting the Pathways to Gang Violence for Youth of Color NIJ FY17 W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime MULTNOMAH, COUNTY OF OR 2017-MU-MU-0055 $468,740 Closed
2014 Life Fast, Die Young: Anticipated Early Death And Adolescent Violence And Gang Involvement NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences The Research Foundation for the SUNY, University of Albany NY 2014-IJ-CX-0008 $25,869 Closed
2006 Process and Outcome Evaluation of G.R.E.A.T. Process and Outcome Evaluation of G.R.E.A.T. Curators of the University of Missouri on Behalf UMSL MO 2006-JV-FX-0011 $2,497,585 Closed
2015 UMSL Comprehensive School Safety Initiative NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM MO 2015-CK-BX-0021 $1,603,690 Closed
2011 A Multi-method, Multi-site Study of Gang Desistance NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Crime Control and Prevention: Desistance from Gangs and Gang Related Crime Curators of The University of Missouri On Behalf of The University of Missouri St. Louis MO 2011-MU-MU-0027 $501,337 Closed
2007 Evaluating the Impact of the Project Safe Neighborhoods Anti-Gang Initiative NIJ FY 07 ORE Police and Public Safety Michigan State University MI 2007-IJ-CX-0035 $427,152 Closed
2021 Long-Term Follow-Up of the National Evaluation of Gang Resistance Education and Training Project Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime, Fiscal Year 2021 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 15PNIJ-21-GG-00095-TITL $1,055,202 Open
2014 Reducing Gang Violence A Randomized Trial of Functional Family Therapy NIJ FY 14 Research on Gangs and Gang Violence University of Maryland MD 2014-R2-CX-0001 $472,906 Closed
2014 A Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism University of Maryland MD 2014-ZA-BX-0002 $639,736 Closed
2018 Reducing Gang Violence: A Long-Term Follow-Up of a Randomized Trial of Functional Family Therapy NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Gangs and Gang Violence UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE MD 2018-75-CX-0027 $770,657 Closed
2018 Solve Crime. Build Trust? Investigating Homicides and Shootings in Los Angeles NIJ FY18 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices JUSTICE AND SECURITY STRATEGIES, INC. MD 2018-75-CX-0003 $500,000 Closed
2009 An Evaluation of a Global Positioning System for Monitoring High-Risk Gang Offenders NIJ FY 09 Recovery Act: Law Enforcement Technology Research and Development DEVELOPMENT SERVICES GROUP, INC. MD 2009-SQ-B9-K018 $398,884 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
2012 Understanding Pathways to and away from Violent Radicalization among Resettled Somali Refugees NIJ FY 12 Research on Domestic Radicalization Children''s Hospital Corporation MA 2012-ZA-BX-0004 $593,894 Closed
2013 Social Networks and Organized Crime NIJ FY 13 Graduate Research Fellowship Program University of Massachusetts Amherst MA 2013-IJ-CX-0013 $24,990 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 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
2014 Underground Gun Markets in Chicago NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Firearms and Violence The University of Chicago IL 2014-MU-CX-0013 $459,849 Closed
2006 An Evaluation of Gang Hot-Spots Policing in Chicago NIJ FY06 ORE Evaluation of Public Safety Interventions Chicago Police Department IL 2006-IJ-CX-0023 $250,000 Closed
2014 Chicago Public Schools's Connect and Redirect to Respect (CRR) Program to use social media monitoring to identify and connect youth to behavioral interventions. NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe Board of Education City of Chicago IL 2014-CK-BX-0002 $2,197,178 Closed