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

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State Sort descending	Award Number	Amount	Status
2006	Technologies for Critical Incident Preparedness	NIJ/Office of Science and Technology Continuations	Center For Technology Commercialization	MA	2006-IJ-CX-K002	$99,911	Closed
2014	The prosecution of child sexual abuse: A partnership to improve outcomes	NIJ FY 14 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2014-MU-MU-0001	$498,333	Closed
2010	Mobile Fingerprint Capture	NIJ FY 10 Office of Science and Technology Continuations	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2009-IJ-CX-K021	$102,635	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
2015	Implementation Studies: Comprehensive Gang Model Evaluation: Integrating Research Into Practice	NIJ FY 15 Social Science Research on Implementation, Dissemination, and Translation	Suffolk University	MA	2015-R2-CX-0013	$286,740	Closed
2015	Improving the Quality and Timeliness of Forensic Science in Massachusetts	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Massachusetts State Police	MA	2015-CD-BX-0059	$159,947	Closed
2015	DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Massachusetts State Police	MA	2015-DN-BX-0108	$1,275,624	Closed
2015	Boston Police Department-DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	City of Boston	MA	2015-DN-BX-0099	$283,811	Closed
2015	Racialized Cues and Support for Justice Reinvestment: A Mixed-Method Study of Public Opinion	NIJ FY 15 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime	University of Massachusetts Boston	MA	2015-IJ-CX-0003	$144,329	Closed
2015	Engineering a high-fidelity, damage-tolerant polymerase for forensic analysis of damaged DNA samples	NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Northeastern University	MA	2015-R2-CX-0011	$45,863	Closed
2015	Responding to sexual assault on campus: A national assessment and systematic classification of the scope and challenges for investigation and adjudication	NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on the Investigation and Adjudication of Campus Sexual Assault	Wellesley College	MA	2015-IJ-CX-0009	$555,677	Closed
2015	Advancing Human Trafficking Prevalence Estimation	NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	Abt Associates Inc.	MA	2015-MU-MU-0003	$996,870	Closed
2015	Community-level influences on the sentencing of convicted sex offenders	NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2015-R2-CX-0039	$39,997	Closed
2015	Capturing Human Trafficking Victimization through Crime Reporting	NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	Northeastern University	MA	2015-VF-GX-0105	$462,973	Closed
2016	A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine	NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Northeastern University	MA	2016-DN-BX-0002	$47,833	Open
2016	Deep Multi-Factor Forensic Face Recognition	NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	Northeastern University	MA	2016-R2-CX-0013	$50,000	Closed
2016	Understanding and Measuring Bias Victimization against Latinos	Research on Bias Crimes	Northeastern University	MA	2016-V3-GX-0001	$558,575	Closed
2016	Development of a New Measure of Adolescent Dating Aggression: National Norms with a Focus on Marginalized Youth	Research on Measurement of Teen Dating Violence	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2016-IJ-CX-0006	$499,988	Closed
2016	Developing Methods for Assessing Outcomes of Law and Policy on Drug Trafficking Offenders, Organizations, and Criminal Justice Responses	Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime	ABT ASSOCIATES INC.	MA	2016-R2-CX-K001	$999,887	Closed
2016	Using Public Health Datasets to Analyze Legal Intervention Shootings	Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence	President and Fellows of Harvard College/Harvard T.H. Chan	MA	2016-R2-CX-0038	$654,910	Open
2016	The Impact of State-Level Firearms Laws on Homicide Rates by Race/Ethnicity	Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence	Trustees of Boston University, BUMC	MA	2016-MU-MU-0047	$610,000	Closed
2016	Evaluation of the Peer to Peer (P2P): Challenging Extremism Initiative	Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism: Prevention and Intervention Demonstration Programs	President and Fellows of Harvard College/Harvard T.H. Chan	MA	2016-ZA-BX-K001	$750,000	Closed
2016	The Impact of Correctional Officer Suicide on the Institutional Environment and on the Well-being of Correctional Employees	Research and Evaluation on Institutional Corrections	NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY	MA	2016-MU-MU-0010	$500,000	Closed
2018	Post-Blast Explosives Attribution	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	MA	2018-DU-BX-0193	$599,738	Declined
2018	Persistence of Touch DNA for Forensic Analysis	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MIT Lincoln Laboratory	MA	2018-DU-BX-0192	$649,938	Closed