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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.
Showing Results For:
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
2009 Protective Behaviors of Student Victims of Bullying: A Rare Events Analysis of the 2007 School Crime Supplement NIJ FY 09 ORE Data Resources Program American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences DC 2009-IJ-CX-0107 $38,000 Closed
2013 Development and Validation of an Actuarial Risk Assessment Tool for Juvenile Sex Offenders NIJ FY 13 Basic Scientific Research to Assess Youth With Sexual Offending Behavior Urban Institute DC 2013-AW-BX-0053 $999,984 Closed
2007 Smart Police Deployment Evaluating the Use of Automated Vehicle Locator Technologies in Policing NIJ FY 07 Geospatial Technology: Invited Full Proposals Police Foundation DC 2007-IJ-CX-K153 $235,421 Closed
2006 Alcohol Availability, Distribution Policies, and Their Relationship To Crime and Alcohol-Related Injury NIJ FY06 ORE Crime and Justice Research The Urban Institute DC 2006-IJ-CX-0012 $105,989 Closed
2007 Data and Research on Human Trafficking: Comprehensive Literature Review NIJ FY07 Trafficking in Human Beings Research and Comprehensive Literature Review Georgetown University DC 2007-VT-BX-K002 $86,802 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
2006 Evaluation of Target's Safe City Initiative: An Action-Research Crime Prevention Partnership NIJ FY06 ORE Evaluation of Public Safety Interventions The Urban Institute DC 2006-IJ-CX-0021 $246,597 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
2007 Crime Displacement and HUD''s HOPE VI Initiative NIJ FY 07 ORE Crime & Justice Research The Urban Institute DC 2007-IJ-CX-0020 $90,298 Closed
2007 The Impact of Permanent Supportive Housing on Recidivism and Residential Stability: A Randomized Field Experiment of the Corporation for Supportive Housing''s Returning Home Initiative NIJ FY 07 ORE Crime & Justice Research The Urban Institute DC 2007-IJ-CX-0022 $399,040 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
2007 Quantifying the Specific Deterrent Effects of DNA Databases NIJ FY 07 ORE Social Science Research & Forensic Evidence The Urban Institute DC 2007-DN-BX-0001 $150,815 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
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
2016 Estimating the Financial Costs of Crime Victimization Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime Justice Research and Statistics Association, Inc. DC 2016-V3-GX-K005 $745,346 Closed
2016 Non-fatal Intimate Partner Violence Against LGB Individuals: Exploring Victims' Use of Formal and Informal Services Through Analysis of Existing Data Sources Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime American University DC 2016-V3-GX-0008 $134,520 Closed
2015 FY2015 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants DC 2015-CD-BX-0027 $63,705 Closed
2015 FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Washington, DC Department of Forensic Sciences NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program District of Columbia Department of Forensic Sciences DC 2015-DN-BX-0028 $437,802 Closed
2015 Research on Contraband and Interdiction Modalities Used in Correctional Facilities NIJ FY 15 Research on the Efficacy of Different Contraband Interdiction Modalities Used in Correctional Facilities THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 2015-IJ-CX-K001 $499,999 Closed
2015 Intimate Partner Violence, Stalking and Sexual Violence Among Non-College Attending Emerging Adults: Exploring the Prevalence of the Problem and Utilization of Victim Services NIJ FY 15 Secondary Analysis of the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) Data: General Population and American Indian and Alaska Native Samples American University DC 2015-VA-CX-0072 $39,958 Closed
2015 Evaluating Gunshot Detection Technology (GDT) to Aid in the Reduction of Firearms Violence NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence Reduction Urban Institute DC 2015-R2-CX-K147 $622,432 Closed
2015 A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of the Safe Public Spaces in Schools Program (NIJ Comprehensive School Safety Initiative[Category 1]) NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative American Institutes for Research DC 2015-CK-BX-0012 $2,042,273 Closed
2015 Bending Towards Justice: Perceptions of Justice among Human Trafficking Survivors NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Urban Institute DC 2015-VF-GX-0108 $573,509 Closed
2016 The Utility of Multi-Dimensional Liquid Chromatography for the Analysis of Seized Drugs: Application to Emerging Drugs Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The George Washington University DC 2016-DN-BX-0169 $208,339 Closed