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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: Crime prevention

Number of Awards: 246
Total Amount Awarded: $205,708,893

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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
2012 Crime in Metropolitan America: Patterns and Trends across the SouthernCalifornia Landscape NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Metropolitan Crime The Regents of the University of California CA 2012-R2-CX-0010 $560,620 Closed
2015 Suicide Prevention and Intervention Strategies by Law Enforcement Agencies: Utilization, Characteristics and Costs NIJ FY 15 Research into the Use of Suicide Prevention and Intervention Strategies by Law Enforcement Agencies RAND Corporation CA 2015-IJ-CX-K004 $499,106 Closed
2016 Planning a Family-Focused Approach to Prevent Elder Mistreatment Elder Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project: Planning Phase University of Southern California CA 2016-ZD-CX-K008 $400,000 Closed
2016 Project SECURE: Keeping Kids Safe in San Francisco Unified School District. Comprehensive School Safety Initiative SRI INTERNATIONAL CA 2016-CK-BX-0002 $4,641,134 Closed
2017 Preventing Firearm Violence: An Evaluation of Urban Blight Removal in High Risk Communities NIJ FY17 Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS CA 2017-IJ-CX-0021 $669,964 Closed
2017 Taking Effective School Violence Prevention to Scale NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2017-CK-BX-0020 $6,867,878 Past Project Period End Date
2017 Reducing Violence in Communities: An In-Depth Study of Efforts in Durham, NC and Minneapolis, MN NIJ FY17 Research on Reducing Violence in Communities THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2017-IJ-CX-0015 $999,728 Closed
2018 Community Reporting Thresholds: Sharing Information with Authorities Concerning Terrorism Activity. NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Prevention and Mitigation of Domestic Pathways to Terrorism UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES CA 2018-ZA-CX-0004 $920,854 Closed
2018 Hoopa Valley Tribe and Tribal Law and Policy Institute Research Partnership NIJ FY18 Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants TRIBAL LAW AND POLICY INSTITUTE CA 2018-75-CX-0013 $100,000 Closed
2018 Firearm Purchase Behavior and Subsequent Adverse Events NIJ FY18 Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS CA 2018-75-CX-0026 $922,109 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Exploring the Social Networks of Homegrown Violent Extremist (HVE) Military Veterans Research and Evaluation on Terrorism Prevention, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CA 2019-ZA-CX-0002 $1,670,395 Past Project Period End Date
2019 A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Scenarios and Solutions Gang Prevention Program Research and Evaluation on Gangs and Gang Violence, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES CA 2019-R2-CX-0014 $550,610 Past Project Period End Date
2005 A social norms approach to community-based crime prevention: implicit and explicit messages on Neighborhood Watch signs. Solicitation for Crime and Justice Research, FY05 California State University San Marcos Foundation CA 2005-IJ-CX-0016 $199,439 Closed
2020 An Evaluation of a Statewide Approach to the Prevention and Intervention of Violence using School Threat Assessment Teams Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2020 WESTED CA 2020-MU-MU-0011 $852,868 Open
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
2005 A Participatory Evaluation of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's (BJA) Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Demonstration (IASAD) Programs Arizona Board of Regents University of Arizona AZ 2005-AC-BX-0011 $457,200 Closed
2014 Radicalization on the Internet: Virtual Extremism in the US from 2012-2017 NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism Arkansas State University AR 2014-ZA-BX-0014 $261,503 Closed
2015 The Prevalence and Nature of Intra- and Inter-group Violence In an Era of Social and Demographic Change NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program University of Arkansas AR 2015-R2-CX-0046 $39,895 Closed
2013 Person or Place? A Contextual, Event-History Analysis of Homicide Victimization Risk NIJ FY 13 Research on Victimization University of Arkansas at Little Rock AR 2013-R2-CX-0007 $161,551 Closed
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