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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 Sort ascending Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2001 Testing the Impact of Court Monitoring and Batterer Intervention Program Process Evaluations in Four Tribal Drug Courts Fund For The City of New York NY 2001-WT-BX-0506 $294,129 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
2007 Testing the Efficacy of Judicial Monitoring: A Randomized Trial at the Rochester Domestic Violence Courts NIJ FY 07 ORE Justice Response to Intimate Partner Violence Fund for the City of New York / Center for Court Innovation NY 2007-WG-BX-0011 $335,208 Closed
2021 Strengthening data-driven pretrial release in New Jersey NIJ Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IL 15PNIJ-21-GG-02806-RESS $837,477 Open
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
2006 Social Science Research on the Role and Impact of Forensic Evidence on the Criminal Justice Process NIJ FY06 ORE Social Science Research & Forensic Evidence Institute for Law and Justice, Inc. VA 2006-DN-BX-0095 $600,000 Closed
2010 Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Implementation and Collaborative Process: What Works Best for the Criminal Justice System? NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on VAW: Sexual Violence, Teen Dating Violence and Stalking Michigan State University MI 2010-WG-BX-0010 $278,713 Closed
2018 Setting Up for Success: Improving Defendant's Court Appearance Rates with Behaviorally-Informed Pretrial Notification Protocols NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS VA 2018-R2-CX-0029 $249,071 Open
2023 Second looks for youth: An implementation evaluation of resentencing models in five jurisdictions NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Sentencing and Resentencing MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY NJ 15PNIJ-23-GG-04239-RESS $692,889 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
2011 Reviewing cases in Minnesota where DNA is dispositive of innocence. NIJ FY 11 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program JUDICARY COURTS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA MN 2011-DY-BX-K002 $658,348 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
2021 Research on Juvenile Court Intake Practices and Reoffending Research on Juvenile Reoffending, Fiscal Year 2021 MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY MS 15PNIJ-21-GG-02981-TITL $597,436 Open
2012 Research on District Attorneys'' Pretrial Diversion Programs: A Proposal for a Comprehensive Multi-Method Study NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Justice Systems Fund for the City of New York NY 2012-IJ-CX-0036 $1,000,000 Closed
2007 Reduction of False Convictions Through Improved Identification Procedures: Further Refinements for Street Practice and Public Policy NIJ FY 07 ORE Social Science Research & Forensic Evidence Augsburg College MN 2007-IJ-CX-0046 $236,577 Closed
2021 Reducing Youth Incarceration for Runaway and Truancy: A National Scan of Practice and Evaluability Assessments in Three Sites Research on Juvenile Justice Topics, Fiscal Year 2021 THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 15PNIJ-21-GG-03265-RESS $705,856 Open
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
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
2012 Race, Juvenile Court Processing and Case Outcomes: Fluctuation or Stability? NIJ FY 12 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data University of South Florida FL 2012-IJ-CX-0051 $38,167 Closed
2011 Race and Drug Arrests: Specific Deterrence and Collateral Consequences NIJ FY 11 W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program University of South Florida FL 2011-IJ-CX-0004 $93,553 Closed
2007 Quantifying the Specific Deterrent Effects of DNA Databases NIJ FY 07 ORE Social Science Research & Forensic Evidence The Urban Institute DC 2007-DN-BX-0001 $150,815 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
2023 Pretrial Policy Change and Place: Evaluating the Impacts of Maryland's Bail Reform on Crime and Pretrial Outcomes across Courts NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE CA 15PNIJ-23-GG-01931-RESS $55,500 Open
2013 Pre-feedback eyewitness statements: Proposed inoculant and antidote for feedback effects on evaluations of eyewitness testimony NIJ FY 13 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2013-IJ-CX-0010 $25,000 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