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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
2010 Detection of Crime, Resource Deployment,and Predictors of Success: A Proposed Multi-Level Analysis of CCTV inNewark, NJ. NIJ FY 10 ORE Research on Policing Rutgers, the State University NJ 2010-IJ-CX-0026 $188,620 Closed
2012 Official Crime Rates of Participants in Trials of the Nurse-Family Partnership NIJ FY 12 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data University of Colorado Denver CO 2012-IJ-CX-0010 $40,000 Closed
2010 A Follow-up Evaluation of Hawaii's HOPE Probation NIJ FY 10 ORE Crime and Justice Research and Evaluation: Investigator Initiated Pepperdine University CA 2010-IJ-CX-0016 $191,707 Closed
2013 Understanding Law Enforcement Perspectives on Sex Offender Registration and Notification NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Justice Systems: Investigator-Initiated University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2013-IJ-CX-0028 $233,307 Closed
2010 A Dating Violence Prevention Program for Each Grade in Middle School: A Longitudinal Multi-Level Experiment. NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on VAW: Sexual Violence, Teen Dating Violence and Stalking National Opinion Research Center IL 2010-MU-MU-0008 $807,256 Closed
2014 Examining School Safety and Positive Climate and Culture: A Comprehensive Study in New York City NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Fund for the City of New York / Center for Court Innovation NY 2014-CK-BX-0001 $629,952 Closed
2014 Space-time study of youth and school violence NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE PA 2014-CK-BX-0008 $3,082,625 Closed
2014 Student Threat Assessment as a Safe and Supportive Prevention Strategy NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative The Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia VA 2014-CK-BX-0004 $2,497,529 Closed
2014 Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Sustainability of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program in Increasing School Safety for Urban Low-Income Middle Schools NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2014-CK-BX-0009 $2,660,933 Closed
2014 Effective School Staff Interactions with Students and Police: A Training Model NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Connecticut Office of Policy and Management CT 2014-CK-BX-0003 $566,104 Closed
2011 Integrating Prevention and Intervention: A School Health Center Program to Promote Healthy Adolescent Relationships NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Violence and Victimization Public Health Institute CA 2011-MU-MU-0023 $807,490 Closed
2011 Thirty-year Follow-up of the Cycle of Violence NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Violence and Victimization Research Foundation of CUNY c/o John Jay College NY 2011-WG-BX-0013 $311,967 Closed
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
2014 Finding Cost-Effective Ways to Reduce Truancy and Crime: An Evaluation of the Ramsey County Truancy Intervention Programs NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Justice Systems-Related Topical Areas The Regents of the University of Minnesota MN 2014-IJ-CX-0010 $552,163 Closed
2014 Integrating Improved Assessments of Financial Judgment: Conceptual and Measurement Advances NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities Wayne State University MI 2014-MU-CX-0001 $468,181 Closed
2014 Development of a brief elder abuse and neglect screener for Emergency Medical Services: Detection of Elder abuse Through Emergency Care Technicians (DETECT) NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2014-MU-CX-0102 $369,039 Closed
2014 Adaptation and Evaluation of Video Game to Reduce Sexual Violence on Campus NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence University of New Hampshire NH 2014-VA-CX-0012 $579,301 Closed
2014 Partner Violence Prevention for Middle School Boys: A Dyadic Web-Based Intervention NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence Rhode Island Hospital RI 2014-MU-CX-0002 $791,846 Closed
2014 Environmental Scan of Family Justice Centers in the United States NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence Abt Associates Inc. MA 2014-ZD-CX-0013 $299,971 Closed
2014 Testing Integrative Models to Improve School Safety: Positive Behavior Interventions Support and the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe Chesterfield County School District SC 2014-CK-BX-0012 $2,460,220 Open
2014 PSJA ISD Safe School Research Initiative NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe Pharr San Juan Alamo Independent School District TX 2014-CK-BX-0015 $4,137,035 Closed
2014 Wisconsin School Violence and Bullying Prevention Study NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction WI 2014-CK-BX-0011 $858,187 Closed
2013 Adaptive Expert System that Learns to Detect and Track Patterns of Crime in Internet Advertisements NIJ FY 13 Applied Technology Research and Development for Criminal Justice Purposes Carnegie Mellon University PA 2013-IJ-CX-K007 $245,382 Closed
2014 Prospective Evaluation of California's Armed and Prohibited Persons System NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Firearms and Violence UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS CA 2014-R2-CX-0012 $1,167,909 Closed
2014 Re-engaging Justice-Involved Youth NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences University of Chicago IL 2014-IJ-CX-0011 $29,799 Closed