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: 41
Total Amount Awarded: $18,749,189

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2024	Spatial analysis of social vulnerability and crime disparities through interpretable machine learning	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	15PNIJ-24-GG-01573-RESS	$180,000	Awarded, but not yet accepted
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
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
2021	Developing a Culturally and Trauma-Informed Teen Dating Violence Algorithm: A Continuation of the VIP Study	Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2021	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-02803-MUMU	$600,000	Open
2021	Evaluating the Efficacy of the SAFeR Approach to Improving Legal Responses to IPV: A Randomized Controlled Trial	Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2021	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-02800-REVA	$1,221,556	Open
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
2019	Infusing Community Policing Strategies into Hot Spots Policing Practices: The Impacts on Police-Community Relations in a Mid-Sized City	NIJ FY19 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2017-R2-CX-0012	$737,561	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Sex and Ancestry Estimation Methods in Modern Filipino Crania	GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2017-IJ-CX-0008	$40,932	Closed
2018	A Novel, Trauma-Informed Screening Approach for Teen Dating Violence Perpetration in Racially Diverse Adolescents: A Multi-Site Study	NIJ FY18 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Crime	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2018-R2-CX-0022	$249,425	Closed
2018	Learning from Our Casework: The Forensic Anthropology Database for Assessing Methods Accuracy (FADAMA)	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2018-DU-BX-0213	$267,117	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
2018	Sex and Ancestry Estimation Methods in Modern Filipino Crania	NIJ FY18 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2017-IJ-CX-0008	$41,856	Closed
2017	Infusing Community Policing Strategies into Hot Spots Policing Practices: The Impacts on Police-Community Relations in a Mid-Sized City	NIJ FY17 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices (Beyond Crime Reduction)	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2017-R2-CX-0012	$316,125	Past Project Period End Date
2017	Sex and Ancestry Estimation Methods in Modern Filipino Crania	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2017-IJ-CX-0008	$47,451	Closed
2016	Evaluating the Safe Spaces Community-Led CVE Program	Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago	IL	2015-ZA-BX-0003	$149,688	Closed
2015	Evaluating the Safe Spaces Community-Led CVE Program	NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism	Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago	IL	2015-ZA-BX-0003	$936,571	Closed
2015	Guilty Plea and Latino Initiatives	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	University of Illinois Springfield	IL	2015-DY-BX-K005	$753,958	Closed
2015	Understanding Arrest Data in the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)	NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program	Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana	IL	2015-R2-CX-0047	$39,973	Closed
2015	Understanding the Violent Victimization Experiences of Young Men of Color	NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime	Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago	IL	2015-VF-GX-K031	$1,500,000	Closed
2013	Effects of a Middle School Social-Emotional Learning Program on Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Substance Use in High School	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence	Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago	IL	2013-VA-CX-0008	$662,993	Closed
2013	Physical Evidence, Forensic Evidence and the Prosecution of Sexual Assault	NIJ FY 13 Social Science Research on Forensic Science	Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago	IL	2013-NE-BX-0005	$134,980	Closed
2013	Transnational Crimes among Somali-Americans: Convergences of Radicalization and Trafficking	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues Trafficking in Persons, Transnational Organized Crime and Violent Extremism	Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago	IL	2013-ZA-BX-0008	$793,783	Closed
2012	Out of home placement location and juvenile delinquency: the investigation of neighborhood impact on child welfare population''s juvenile justice involvement	NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program	Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana	IL	2012-IJ-CX-0027	$25,000	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
2011	Bullying, Sexual, and Dating Violence Trajectories From Early to Late Adolescence	NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Violence and Victimization	Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago	IL	2011-MU-FX-0022	$386,766	Closed