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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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State: MA

Number of Awards: 289
Total Amount Awarded: $135,694,274

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2009 FY2009 Solving Boston''s Cold Case Homicides with DNA NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City Of Boston MA 2009-DN-BX-K253 $491,265 Closed
2011 FY11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Massachusetts State Police - Forensic Services Group (MSPFSG) NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Massachusetts State Police MA 2011-DN-BX-K434 $1,534,319 Closed
2011 FY2011 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Boston Police Department NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program City of Boston MA 2011-DN-BX-K424 $371,006 Closed
2011 Low-template DNA mixture interpretation: Determining the number of contributors NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2011-DN-BX-K558 $464,617 Closed
2013 Predictors of Injury and Reporting of Intraracial, Interracial, and Racially-Biased Nonsexual Assaults NIJ FY 13 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2013-R2-CX-0033 $39,995 Closed
2013 Repeat and Multiple Violent Victimizations: Nested Analyses of Men and Women using the NVAWS NIJ FY 13 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data Assumption College MA 2013-IJ-CX-0036 $39,837 Closed
2013 Visting Fellow Continuation NIJ FY 13 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations James M Doyle MA 2011-IJ-CX-K060 $121,701 Closed
2013 NIJ Visiting Fellow Program NIJ FY 13 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations James M Doyle MA 2011-IJ-CX-K060 $67,553 Closed
2013 Executive Session on Community Corrections NIJ FY 13 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations President and Fellows of Harvard College MA 2012-R2-CX-0048 $273,506 Closed
2014 Implicit Racial Bias, Community Context, and Perceptions of Crime and Justice NIJ FY 14 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture and Crime Northeastern University MA 2014-IJ-CX-0031 $49,679 Closed
2013 Evaluation of a Multi-Faceted, U.S. Community-Based Muslim-Led CVE Program NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Radicalization to Violent Extremism in the United States University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2013-ZA-BX-0003 $525,020 Closed
2013 Prisoner Recollections: The Role of Internet Use and Real-Life Networks in the Early Radicalization of Islamist Terrorist Offenders NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Radicalization to Violent Extremism in the United States Brandeis University MA 2013-ZA-BX-0005 $148,941 Closed
2013 Across the Universe? A Comparative Analysis of Violent Radicalization Across Three Offender Types with Implications for Criminal Justice Training and Education NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Radicalization to Violent Extremism in the United States University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2013-ZA-BX-0002 $530,298 Closed
2014 Substance Abuse Treatment as a Mechanism to Reduce Drug Abuse and Crime NIJ FY 14 Data Resources Program 2014: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. MA 2014-R2-CX-0015 $39,996 Closed
2008 A National Assessment of Sex Traficking Demand Reduction Efforts NIJ FY 08 ORE Trafficking Abt Associates Inc. MA 2008-IJ-CX-0010 $358,285 Closed
2008 Peerless: A System for Identifying and Gathering Evidence of P2P Trafficking NIJ FY 08 Electronic Crime and Digital Evidence Recovery: Invited Full Proposals University of Massachusetts Amherst MA 2008-CE-CX-K005 $237,834 Closed
2011 Human Trafficking Organizations and Facilitators: A Detailed Profile and Interviews with Convicted Traffickers in the United States NIJ FY 11 Research Solicitation on Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Abt Associates Inc. MA 2011-IJ-CX-0017 $488,007 Closed
2009 Mobile Fingerprint Capture NIJ FY 09 Biometrics Technologies: Invited Full Proposals University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2009-IJ-CX-K021 $354,357 Closed
2012 The Role of Social Networks in the Evolution of Al Qaeda-inspired Violent Extremism in the United States, 1993-2013. NIJ FY 12 Research on Domestic Radicalization Brandeis University MA 2012-ZA-BX-0006 $459,969 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 Evaluating the Impact of Probation and Parole Home Visits NIJ FY 13 The Impact of Probation/Parole Officer Home Visits on Offender Outcomes Abt Associates Inc. MA 2013-IJ-CX-0103 $817,496 Closed
2009 FY 2009 Convicted Offender and/or Arrrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program-Massachusetts State Police Forensic Sciences Group NIJ FY 09 Convicted Offender and-or Arrestee DNA Backlog Reduction Program Massachusetts State Police MA 2009-DN-BX-K018 $81,252 Closed
2012 Decision-Making in Sexual Assault Cases: Replication Research on Sexual Violence Case Attrition in the U.S. NIJ FY 12 Replication Research on Sexual Violence Case Attrition University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2012-IJ-CX-0052 $1,197,686 Closed
2018 Evaluating program enhancements for mentors working with children of prisoners Legacy OJJDP Research Grants UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MA 2014-JU-FX-0004 $2,499,597 Closed
2018 Long-Term Impact of Risk Assessment and Risk-Need-Responsivity Reforms in Juvenile Justice Legacy OJJDP Research Grants UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL MA 2016-JF-FX-0057 $499,998 Closed