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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,
City: Boston

Number of Awards: 101
Total Amount Awarded: $52,334,074

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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
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
2014 Body fluid analysis by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic applications NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Boston University MA 2014-DN-BX-K021 $403,397 Closed
2007 Sexual Assasult Among Latinas (SALAS) Project NIJ FY 07 ORE Continuations Northeastern University MA 2007-WG-BX-0051 $450,585 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
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
2015 Gang Affiliation and Radicalization to Violent Extremism within Somali-American Communities NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Children's Hospital Corporation MA 2014-ZA-BX-0001 $463,910 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
2015 Continuation Funding for 2014-R2-CX-0005 NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2014-R2-CX-0005 $481,374 Closed
2020 Understanding the potential for Multidisciplinary Threat Assessment Teams to prevent terrorism: Conducting a formative evaluation of the MassBay Threat Assessment Team Research and Evaluation of Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2020 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION, THE MA 2020-ZA-CX-0002 $488,390 Past Project Period End Date
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
2018 The Nature, Trends, Correlates and Prevention of Mass Public Shootings in America, 1976-2018 NIJ FY18 Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MA 2018-75-CX-0025 $498,929 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Youth Initiated Mentoring:Investigating an innovative approach to mentoring at-risk youth Legacy OJJDP Research Grants University of Massachussetts Boston MA 2013-JU-FX-0005 $499,323 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 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
2009 Identifying Challenges to Improve the Investigation and Prosecution of State and Local Human Trafficking Cases NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research Northeastern University MA 2009-IJ-CX-0015 $501,352 Closed
2011 Dating Violence Among Latino Adolescent - II (DAVILA - II) NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Violence and Victimization Northeastern University MA 2011-WG-BX-0021 $555,896 Closed
2016 Understanding and Measuring Bias Victimization against Latinos Research on Bias Crimes Northeastern University MA 2016-V3-GX-0001 $558,575 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
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
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
2003 Terrorist Finance and the Nexus with Transnational Organized CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL DRUG COURT EVALUATION Northeastern University MA 2003-DT-CX-0001 $612,298 Closed
2013 Massachusetts Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Committee for Public Counsel Services MA 2013-DY-BX-K006 $613,205 Closed
2023 Evaluating Processes and Outcomes of Housing Models for Victims of Human Trafficking NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons HARVARD COLLEGE PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MA 15PNIJ-23-GK-01928-HT $654,195 Open
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