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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: DC,
City: Washington

Number of Awards: 270
Total Amount Awarded: $113,179,624

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2011 FY2011 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants DC 2011-CD-BX-0010 $166,108 Closed
2014 Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Medium- and High-Risk Juvenile Offenders: A Statewide Randomized Controlled Trial in Virginia NIJ FY 14 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships Urban Institute DC 2014-IJ-CX-0002 $569,702 Closed
2007 Evaluating the Use of Radio Frequency Identification Devices to Prevent and Investigate Sexual Assaults in Correctional Settings NIJ FY 07 ORE on Sexual Victimization in Corrections The Urban Institute DC 2007-RP-BX-0001 $150,938 Closed
2007 A Randomized Experiment of License Plate Recognition Technology in Mesa, AZ NIJ FY 07 ORE Technology POLICE EXECUTIVE RESEARCH FORUM DC 2007-IJ-CX-0023 $474,765 Closed
2009 Hiring of Civilian Staff in Policing: An Assessment of the 2009 Byrne Program Recovery Act: Research and Evaluation of Recovery Act State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance POLICE EXECUTIVE RESEARCH FORUM DC 2009-SC-B9-0001 $549,878 Closed
2011 Support for core activities for 2012 of the Committee on Law and Justice, National Academy of Sciences NIJ FY 2011 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations National Academy of Sciences DC 2009-IJ-CX-0034 $250,000 Closed
2010 FY2010 Coverdell Application FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants DC 2010-CD-BX-0039 $199,728 Closed
2010 Outcomes of DNA "Cold Hits": Social Science Research in Forensic Science NIJ FY 10 ORE Social Science Research in Forensic Science The Urban Institute DC 2010-DN-BX-0002 $351,054 Closed
2007 A Multi-site Assessment of Court-Focused Elder Abuse Initiatives NIJ FY 07 ORE Elder Abuse American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education DC 2007-IJ-CX-0107 $219,409 Closed
2013 Exploratory Research into the Intersection of Forced Marriage, Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence Urban Institute DC 2013-VA-CX-0033 $256,730 Closed
2008 Forensics Blueprint for Law Enforcement NIJ FY 08 ORE Social Science Research in Forensic Sciences The Urban Institute DC 2008-DN-BX-K250 $793,259 Closed
2010 A National Survey of Eyewitness Identification Processes in Law Enforcement Agencies NIJ FY 10 ORE Research on Eyewitness Identification Procedures Police Executive Research Forum DC 2010-IJ-CX-0032 $323,966 Closed
2010 Estimating the Unlawful Commercial Sex Economy in the United States NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on Human Trafficking The Urban Institute DC 2010-IJ-CX-1674 $499,036 Closed
2012 Analyzing Crime Patterns and Trends in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area: Documenting the Value of Cross-Agency and Cross-Jurisdictional Data Integration NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Metropolitan Crime Urban Institute DC 2012-R2-CX-0001 $689,507 Closed
2014 FY 2014 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants DC 2014-CD-BX-0040 $63,029 Closed
2006 Applying Situational Crime Prevention to Sexual Assaults in Jail Facilities: An Action Research Partnership NIJ FY06 ORE R&E on Sexual Victimization in Corrections The Urban Institute DC 2006-RP-BX-0040 $496,704 Closed
2006 Evaluation of Less Lethal Technologies on Police Use of Force Outcomes NIJ FY06 ORE Evaluation of Technology Police Executive Research Forum DC 2006-IJ-CX-0028 $406,734 Closed
2009 Firearms and Medical Examiner Services NIJ FY 09 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants DC 2009-CD-BX-0076 $155,848 Closed
2007 Promising Faith-Based Corrections and Reentry Programs: Toward a Conceptual Model for Research and Evaluation NIJ FY 07 ORE Crime & Justice Research The Urban Institute DC 2007-IJ-CX-0019 $79,368 Closed
2012 Proximity Ligation Real time PCR for the Detection of Spermatozoa NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The George Washington University DC 2012-DN-BX-K034 $263,313 Closed
2010 Committee on Law and Justice Core Support NIJ FY 10 ORE Continuations National Academy of Sciences DC 2009-IJ-CX-0034 $250,000 Closed
2012 FY2012 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program-DC Metropolitan Police Department NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Metropolitan Police Department DC 2012-DN-BX-0066 $430,520 Closed
2011 Evaluating and Improving Law Enforcement Cooperation in Combatting Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations NIJ FY 11 Research Solicitation on International Organized Crime (IOC) American University DC 2011-IJ-CX-0001 $453,112 Closed
2010 Understanding Youth's Use of Technology to Perpetrate Dating Violence, Stalking and Sexual Harassment and Victimization NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on VAW: Sexual Violence, Teen Dating Violence and Stalking The Urban Institute DC 2010-WG-BX-0003 $367,429 Closed
2013 Assessing the Transnational Criminal Capacity of MS-13 in the U.S. and El Salvador NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues Trafficking in Persons, Transnational Organized Crime and Violent Extremism American University DC 2013-R2-CX-0048 $671,615 Closed