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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
2008 Advancing Knowledge and Practice in Policing: A Longitudinal Platform for National Research NIJ FY 08 ORE Crime and Justice University of Illinois at Chicago IL 2008-DN-BX-0005 $1,880,086 Closed
2012 The National Police Research Platform: Phase 2 Continuation Proposal NIJ FY 12 Office of Research and Evaluation ORE Continuations University of Illinois at Chicago IL 2008-DN-BX-0005 $1,000,046 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
2019 Financial Exploitation Intervention Team Evaluability Assessment Evaluations of Services for Victims of Crime, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IL 2019-V3-GX-0005 $995,926 Closed
2022 DENTAGE: A multi-component subadult dental age estimation method NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IL 15PNIJ-22-GG-04433-RESS $567,920 Open
2023 Domestic Terrorism Targeting America’s Political Elites NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IL 15PNIJ-23-GG-01385-DOMR $751,254 Open
2014 Re-engaging Justice-Involved Youth NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences University of Chicago IL 2014-IJ-CX-0011 $29,799 Closed
2018 Evaluating a Cognitive Behavioral Approach for Improving Life Outcomes of Underserved Young Women: A Randomized Experiment in Chicago Legacy OJJDP Research Grants UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IL 2016-JU-FX-0002 $248,918 Closed
2018 Evaluating a Cognitive Behavioral Approach for Improving Life Outcomes of Underserved Young Women: A Randomized Experiment in Chicago Legacy OJJDP Research Grants UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IL 2016-JU-FX-0002 $749,411 Closed
2018 Evaluating a Cognitive Behavioral Approach for Improving Life Outcomes of Underserved Young Women: A Randomized Experiment in Chicago Legacy OJJDP Research Grants UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IL 2016-JU-FX-0002 $248,953 Closed
2017 Using Machine Learning to Identify High Risk Domestic Violence Offenders in New York City NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IL 2017-VA-CX-0033 $452,553 Closed
2005 Identifying and Managing Juvenile Justice Delays Solicitation for Crime and Justice Research, FY05 University of Chicago IL 2005-IJ-CX-0041 $252,964 Closed
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
2021 Strengthening data-driven pretrial release in New Jersey NIJ Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IL 15PNIJ-21-GG-02806-RESS $837,477 Open
2023 911, What's Your Emergency?: Factors Impacting Call Coding NIJ FY23 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IL 15PNIJ-23-GG-01367-NIJB $500,000 Open
2007 GPS Monitoring Technologies and Domestic Violence: An Evaluation Study NIJ FY 07 ORE Community Corrections The University of Illinois at Chicago IL 2007-IJ-CX-0016 $365,704 Closed
2014 Underground Gun Markets in Chicago NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Firearms and Violence The University of Chicago IL 2014-MU-CX-0013 $459,849 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
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
2016 A Predictive Knowledgebase Linking Microbial Signatures to Human Lifestyle Characteristics Non-solicited Applications The University of Chicago IL 2015-DN-BX-K430 $564,735 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
2018 Balancing Accuracy and Timeliness: The Stages of Criminal Prosecution in Cook County, IL NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Social and Behavioral Sciences The University of Chicago IL 2018-R2-CX-0001 $32,000 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
2018 The influence of social surroundings on juvenile and criminal justice involvement of 17-year-olds transitioning from foster care to adulthood: A longitudinal and life-course approach NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Social and Behavioral Sciences The University of Chicago IL 2018-R2-CX-0007 $32,000 Closed
2005 Consequences of Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence Graduate Research Fellowship: 2005 The University of Chicago IL 2005-WG-BX-0001 $20,000 Closed