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

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount Sort descending	Status
2014	Chicago Police Department's Predictive Policing Demonstration and Evaluation Program	FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards	Chicago Police Department	IL	2011-IJ-CX-K014	$499,984	Closed
2018	Trajectories of Delinquency and the Juvenile Justice Systems Response	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	Northwestern University	IL	2013-JF-FX-0057	$499,996	Closed
2018	Trajectories of Delinquency and the Juvenile Justice System's Response	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	Northwestern University	IL	2013-JF-FX-0057	$500,000	Closed
2018	Trajectories of Delinquency and the Juvenile Justice System's Response: Collateral Consequences in Young Adulthood	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	Northwestern University	IL	2013-JF-FX-0057	$500,000	Closed
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
2022	Youth Defense Delivery Systems and Associated Outcomes	NIJ FY22 Research on Juvenile Justice Topics	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	15PNIJ-22-GG-03056-TITL	$508,010	Open
2009	Forensic Microscopy Training Program II	NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program	McCrone Research Institute Inc.	IL	2009-DN-BX-K212	$520,000	Closed
2014	CPD FY2014 Optimizing the Use of Video Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes	NIJ FY 14 Optimizing the Use of Video Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes	Chicago, City of	IL	2014-R2-CX-K002	$528,957	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
2015	Comprehensive Optimization of the Use ofReal-Time Video Technology in Urban Policing Phase 2	NIJ FY 15 Office of Science and Technology Continuations	Chicago, City of	IL	2014-R2-CX-K002	$541,222	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
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
2008	FFY08 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	NIJ FY 08 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program	Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority	IL	2008-CD-BX-0046	$572,110	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
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	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
2021	A Process and Impact Evaluation of Illinois' Policy to Eliminate Cash Bail and Reform Pretrial Practices	NIJ Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, Fiscal Year 2021	LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-02807-RESS	$632,781	Open
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
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
2009	FFY09 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program	Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority	IL	2009-CD-BX-0001	$672,473	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
2009	Grant funds shall be used to to address "open" cases of violent crimes in which there exists physical evidence with a substantial potential of biological applications.	NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	City of Chicago	IL	2009-DN-BX-K194	$743,000	Closed
2021	Twenty Years Later: National Study of Victim Compensation Program Trends, Challenges, and Successes.	Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime, Fiscal Year 2021	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-00995-NONF	$748,827	Open
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	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