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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
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
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
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
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
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
2019 Applying a Development Evaluation Approach to Address Community Safety and Health Challenges of Reintegration Programs in the USA Research and Evaluation on Terrorism Prevention, FY 2019 HARVARD COLLEGE PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MA 2019-ZA-CX-0001 $1,114,933 Closed
2021 Evaluability assessment and development of psychological and behavioral health approaches to prevent terrorism and facilitate reintegration of violent extremists. Research and Evaluation on Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2021 HARVARD COLLEGE PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MA 15PNIJ-21-GG-02727-DOMR $981,026 Open
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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