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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: IL,
City: CHICAGO

Number of Awards: 131
Total Amount Awarded: $69,427,185

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2021 Prisons as Schools for Change: Evidence from Illinois Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IL 15PNIJ-21-GG-00139-NIJB $585,726 Open
2012 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority IL 2012-DY-BX-K004 $589,638 Closed
2013 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority IL 2013-DY-BX-K002 $332,533 Closed
2010 Postconviction DNA Testing (PDNAT) Assistance Program NIJ FY 10 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority IL 2010-DY-BX-K005 $687,448 Closed
2015 Postconviction DNA Program NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent Cook County State''s Attorney''s Office IL 2015-DY-BX-K007 $400,701 Closed
2023 Positive Adolescent Interpersonal Relationships (PAIR): A Community-Based STRiV Study NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 15PNIJ-23-GG-01380-REVA $1,996,357 Open
2021 Policing the Rainbow: Sexual and Gender Minority Experiences and Perceptions of Law Enforcement Research and Evaluation on Policing, Fiscal Year 2021 NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 15PNIJ-21-GG-02715-RESS $654,179 Open
2012 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority IL 2012-CD-BX-0001 $294,523 Closed
2013 Optimizing Criminal Justice Use of Social Media in the "Web 3.0" Environment: Addressing the Problem of Human Sex Trafficking NIJ FY 13 Applied Technology Research and Development to Optimize Law Enforcement Use of Social Media in the Web 3.0 Environment NORC IL 2013-IJ-CX-K009 $593,715 Closed
2012 Office of the Cook County Medical Examiner's Electronic Data Management System NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Cook County IL 2012-CD-BX-0027 $175,000 Closed
2018 Neighborhood Context and Probation Outcomes NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Social and Behavioral Sciences The University of Chicago IL 2018-R2-CX-0006 $32,000 Closed
2003 National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act FY02 National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority IL 2003-DN-BX-0017 $141,689 Closed
2003 National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act FFY03
U.S. Department of Justice 		Paul Coverdell National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act Grants (FY 2003 Formula Grant Program) Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority IL 2003-DN-BX-0003 $153,226 Closed
2018 Multidimensional Vulnerabilities for Online Radicalization NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Prevention and Mitigation of Domestic Pathways to Terrorism UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IL 2018-ZA-CX-0001 $750,000 Closed
2022 Multi-Site Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 15PNIJ-22-GG-01568-HT $979,022 Open
2020 Methods to Cost Crime Victimization: Statistical Modelling with Integrated and Survey Data to Comprehensively Measure Harm Research and Evaluation of Victims of Crime, Fiscal Year 2020 NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 2020-V3-GX-0078 $1,225,595 Past Project Period End Date
2014 Longitudinal Follow-up in the National Survey for Teen Relationships and Violence (STRiV2) NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence National Opinion Research Center IL 2014-VA-CX-0065 $351,825 Closed
2015 Longitudinal Follow-up in the National Survey for Teen Relationships & Violence Program NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications National Opinion Research Center IL 2014-VA-CX-0065 $648,164 Closed
2017 Linking internal organ microbiome and metabolome compositions to cause death in medicolegal investigations NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The University of Chicago IL 2017-MU-MU-0042 $532,286 Closed
2016 Law Enforcement Officers Safety and Wellness: A Multi-Level Study Research and Evaluation in Support of the Recommendations of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 2016-IJ-CX-0021 $970,795 Closed
2010 Junior Faculty Grant Program: Comparative Evaluation of Court-Based Responses to Offenders with Mental Illness NIJ FY 10 ORE Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships The University of Chicago IL 2010-IJ-CX-0033 $440,437 Closed
2006 Jihad, Crime and the Internet NIJ FY06 ORE Continuations Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at Chicago IL 2006-IJ-CX-0038 $275,802 Closed
2017 Interpersonal Conflict and Resolution: Assessing victimization and perpetration sequencing and proximal determinants NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 2017-VF-GX-0103 $452,891 Closed
2013 Improving Hot-Spot Policing through Behavioral Interventions NIJ FY 13 Research on Offender Decision-Making The University of Chicago IL 2013-R2-CX-0006 $760,230 Closed
2022 Improving Hate Crime Reporting among LGBTQ+ Populations NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 15PNIJ-22-GG-00998-RESS $997,360 Open