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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
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
2017 Longitudinal Examination of Victimization Experiences of Latinos (LEVEL): Extending the Bias Victimization Study NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MA 2017-VF-GX-0005 $725,999 Closed
2017 Engineering a high-fidelity, damage-tolerant polymerase for forensic analysis of damaged DNA samples NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Northeastern University MA 2015-R2-CX-0011 $48,648 Closed
2017 A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Northeastern University MA 2016-DN-BX-0002 $48,818 Open
2018 Crime in Public Space and Online Domains: Commercial Sex and Sex Trafficking in Massage Businesses NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Social and Behavioral Sciences NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MA 2018-R2-CX-0005 $32,000 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 A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine NIJ FY18 Continuations Northeastern University MA 2016-DN-BX-0002 $49,832 Open
2015 Partner Violence Prevention for Middle School Boys: A Dyadic Web-Based Intervention NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications Northeastern University MA 2014-MU-CX-4002 $791,846 Closed
2015 Encapsulated phase change nanoparticles as thermally-readable covert taggants NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications Northeastern University MA 2012-DN-BX-K821 $305,965 Closed
2007 Sexual Assasult Among Latinas (SALAS) Project NIJ FY 07 ORE Continuations Northeastern University MA 2007-WG-BX-0051 $450,585 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
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
2015 Research Assistantship Program, VAIW NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations President and Fellows of Harvard College MA 2015-IJ-CX-0014 $72,446 Closed
2020 Impact of Organizational Stressors on Health and Wellness: A Longitudinal Study of Occupational Stress, Trauma Exposure, Psychological Distress, and Suicide Risk among Correction Officers Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in Criminal Justice System, Fiscal Year 2020 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MA 2020-R2-CX-0007 $996,440 Open
2020 Understanding the Physical and Psychological Health and Wellness Needs of Minor Sex Trafficking Victims Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2020 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MA 2020-VT-BX-0111 $985,786 Open
2020 Root Causes of Bias-based Harassment in Schools: Risk and Protective Factors across Multiple Levels of the Social Ecology Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2020 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MA 2020-CK-BX-0005 $1,290,546 Open
2020 3D morphology of blood stain can provide critical information missed in standard bloodstain analysis Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MA 2020-DQ-BX-0006 $361,656 Past Project Period End Date
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
2006 Boston Police Crime Laboratory 2006 DNA Capacity Enhancement NIJ FY06 DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Solicitation City of Boston MA 2006-DN-BX-K165 $135,771 Closed
2004 Boston Police Crime Laboratory Capacity Enhancement DNA Capacity Enhancement Program Formula Grant Announcement, FY04 City of Boston MA 2004-DN-BX-K127 $24,520 Closed
2007 Boston Police Forensic Technology Division: Forensic Science Improvement NIJ FY 07 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Boston MA 2007-CD-BX-0066 $95,000 Closed
2008 FY2008 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Boston Police Department NIJ FY 08 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement City of Boston MA 2008-DN-BX-K121 $351,378 Closed
2006 Boston Crime Laboratory DNA Backlog Reduction Program NIJ FY06 Forensic Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program Grant Announcement City of Boston MA 2006-DN-BX-K064 $84,522 Closed