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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
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
2011 An Examination of the "Marriage Effect" on Desistance from Crime among U.S. Immigrants NIJ FY 11 W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program University of Massachusetts Boston MA 2011-IJ-CX-0002 $99,149 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
2018 Evaluating program enhancements for mentors working with children of prisoners Legacy OJJDP Research Grants UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MA 2014-JU-FX-0004 $2,499,597 Closed
2013 A Brief Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Dating Aggression Perpetration NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2013-VA-CX-0001 $741,630 Closed
2014 Evaluation of a Service Provision Program for Victims of Sex Trafficking NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2014-R2-CX-0005 $247,093 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
2014 Establishing Exclusion Criteria and the Significance of Inclusion: Developing Tools for the Interpretation of Complex DNA Mixtures NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2014-DN-BX-K026 $813,843 Closed
2008 TRAINING COURSES FOR THE FORENSIC PRACTITIONER: LABORATORY EXPERIENCE WITH BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE NIJ FY 08 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2008-DN-BX-K158 $900,000 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2022 Gull (Laridae) Taphonomy at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Maine, USA NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MA 15PNIJ-22-GG-04407-SLFO $139,905 Open
2004 Testing the Effectivenes of a Comprehensive Fatigue Management Program for the Boston Police Testing the Effectivenes of a Comprehensive Fatigue management for the Boston Police The Brigham And Womens Hospital Inc MA 2004-FS-BX-0001 $1,499,969 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
2023 Research & Evaluation of Boston's Community Violence Intervention & Prevention Initiative NIJ FY23 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research, Evaluation, and Associated Training & Technical Assistance Support SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY MA 15PNIJ-23-GG-04265-CVIP $328,407 Open
2023 Climate, Culture, and Correction Officer Wellness NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Correctional Culture and Climate SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY MA 15PNIJ-23-GG-06104-RESS $960,132 Open
2003 No Suspect Casework DNA Backlog Reduction Program FY 2003 NIJ Science and Technology Solicitation FY 2003 Salient Stills Inc MA 2003-DN-BX-K114 $780,196 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