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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: Courts

Number of Awards: 162
Total Amount Awarded: $98,133,300

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient Sort descending State Award Number Amount Status
2005 The Contextual Significance of Courtroom Workgroup Racial Diversity to Criminal Case Outcomes W.E.B DuBois Fellowship Program 2006 Northeastern University MA 2006-IJ-CX-0009 $75,523 Closed
2005 A Cost Evaluation of Drug Court Programs Compared to State Mandated Non-Drug Court Treatment Programs Solicitation for Crime and Justice Research, FY05 Northwest Professional Consortium Inc OR 2005-IJ-CX-0010 $284,715 Closed
2010 Evaluation of the Second Chance Act Reentry Courts NIJ FY 10 ORE Evaluation of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Second Chance Act: FY2010 State, Tribal, and Local Reentry Courts Program Northwest Professional Consortium, Inc. OR 2010-RY-BX-0001 $2,988,850 Closed
2018 National Study of Family Treatment Court Best Practices, Outcomes, and Costs Legacy OJJDP Research Grants NORTHWEST PROFESSIONAL CONSORTIUM, INC. OR 2018-DC-BX-0056 $856,308 Open
2009 Assessing the Effectiveness of Juvenile Mental Health Courts as a Public Safety Strategy NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research Policy Research Associates Inc NY 2009-IJ-CX-0038 $700,200 Closed
2013 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program; Review of cases for Post-Conviction DNA testing. NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Prosecuting Attorneys' Council GA 2013-DY-BX-K007 $424,038 Closed
2011 The Connecticut Postconviction DNA Testing Program 2011 NIJ FY 11 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Public Defender Services CT 2011-DY-BX-K007 $1,392,176 Closed
2013 Identifying the Highest Priority Criminal Justice Technology Needs NIJ FY 13 Identifying the Highest Priority Criminal Justice Technology Needs RAND Corporation CA 2013-MU-CX-K003 $1,699,224 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
2011 Responding to Fiscal Challenges in State Correctional Systems: A National Study of Prison Closings and Alternative Strategies NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Justice Systems RAND Corporation CA 2011-IJ-CX-0011 $999,952 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
2016 Racial Disparities in Virgina Felony Court Cases W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime RAND Corporation CA 2016-R2-CX-0042 $99,517 Closed
2019 Evaluation of Safe Horizon Family Court Program Evaluations of Services for Victims of Crime, FY 2019 RAND CORPORATION, THE CA 2019-V3-GX-0002 $496,739 Closed
2012 The Contextual Determinants and Implications of Back-end Sentencing NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program Regents of the University of Michigan MI 2012-IJ-CX-0044 $25,000 Closed
2014 State Laws on Child Custody Related to Judges' and Custody Evaluators' Recommendations in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence NIJ FY 14 Data Resources Program 2014: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data Regents of the University of Michigan MI 2014-IJ-CX-0018 $37,532 Closed
2019 Prevalence of Fentanyl and Its Analogues in a Court-Ordered Mandatory Drug Testing Population Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime, FY 2019 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2019-R2-CX-0017 $239,196 Closed
2017 A Post-Conviction Mentality: Prosecutorial Assistance as a Pathway to Exoneration NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Rutgers University-Newark NJ 2017-IJ-CX-0012 $31,771 Closed
1997 A Domestic Violence Electronic Monitoring Project in San Diego County Ohio Statewide Consortium DNA Grant Science Applications International Corporation CA 1997-IJ-CX-K014 $474,130 Closed
2023 Building Better Indigent Defense Systems NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice: Advancing Access to Justice 60 Years after Gideon SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-23-GG-02234-RESS $800,000 Open
2012 SADO''s Postconviction DNA Testing Project NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program State Appellate Defender Office MI 2012-MU-BX-K012 $429,087 Closed
2009 The Connecticut Post Conviction DNA testing program NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program STATE OF CONNECTICUT CT 2009-DY-BX-K243 $1,486,134 Closed
2012 MD Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program State of Maryland MD 2012-DY-BX-K005 $510,324 Closed
2009 North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission grant application for Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program State of North Carolina NC 2009-DN-BX-K247 $566,980 Closed
2005 Judicial Discretion and Sentencing Outcomes - Incorporating Data from the Courtroom Solicitation for Crime and Justice Research, FY05 State of Wisconsin WI 2005-IJ-CX-0003 $160,079 Closed