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: 101
Total Amount Awarded: $52,334,074

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State Sort descending	Award Number	Amount	Status
2013	The Dynamic Context of Teen Dating Violence Within Adolescent Relationships	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence	Boston Medical Center Corporation	MA	2013-VA-CX-0003	$787,595	Closed
2014	Massachusetts Evidence Inventory and Innocence Case Review Project	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	Committee for Public Counsel Services	MA	2014-DY-BX-K003	$391,345	Closed
2006	A Multi-City Assessment of Juvenile Delinquency in the U.S.: A Continuation and Expansion of the International Self-Report Delinquency Study	NIJ FY06 ORE Crime and Justice Research	Northeastern University	MA	2006-IJ-CX-0045	$252,698	Closed
2009	Boston Police Department FY09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Program	NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program	City of Boston	MA	2009-CD-BX-0099	$125,000	Closed
2007	New Approaches to Identifying Secondary Market Sources of Illegal Firearms	NIJ FY 07 ORE Police and Public Safety	Northeastern University	MA	2007-IJ-CX-0030	$205,891	Closed
2012	Establishing Exclusion Criteria and the Significance of Inclusion for Complex Low-Template DNA Mixtures	NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Trustees of Boston University, BUMC	MA	2012-DN-BX-K050	$598,765	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	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	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	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	Body fluid analysis detection and identification by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic scientists	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2018-MU-MU-0013	$462,091	Closed
2016	Engineering a High-Fidelity, Damage-Tolerant Polymerase for the Forensic Analysis of Damaged DNA Samples	Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	Northeastern University	MA	2015-R2-CX-0011	$46,567	Closed
2016	Gang Affiliation and Radicalization to Violent Extremism within Somali-American Communities	Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	Children''s Hospital Corporation	MA	2014-ZA-BX-0001	$376,904	Closed
2016	Research Assistantship Program, VAIW	Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	President and Fellows of Harvard College	MA	2015-IJ-CX-0014	$144,438	Closed
2017	Racial and ethnic differences in non-fatal firearm injuries	NIJ FY17 Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2017-IJ-CX-0018	$693,695	Closed