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: 30
Total Amount Awarded: $15,056,848

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2023	Building Equity in Objective Prison Classification: A Model for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities	NIJ FY23 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL	MA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01363-NIJB	$599,976	Open
2023	Cannabis liberalization policies and trends in cannabis-related school-based discipline: Examining sociodemographic disparities in Massachusetts	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS	MA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01954-TITL	$111,000	Open
2023	Extreme Risk Protection Orders, Leakage, and Social Networks: The Legislative, Behavioral, and Social Contexts Surrounding Mass Public Shooting Incidents and Plots	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence and Mass Shootings	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS	MA	15PNIJ-23-GG-02408-BSCI	$985,776	Open
2023	Internal Affairs Complaint Investigations: A Multi-Site Comparison	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS	MA	15PNIJ-23-GG-05497-RESS	$907,011	Open
2020	Optimizing Supervision and Service Strategies to Reduce Reoffending: Accounting for Risks, Strengths, and Developmental Differences	Research on Juvenile Reoffending, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL	MA	2020-JX-FX-0005	$600,000	Open
2019	Grooming Traffickers: Investigating the Techniques and Mechanisms for Seducing and Coercing New Traffickers	Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL	MA	2019-R2-CX-0067	$499,796	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Improving Identification, Prevalence Estimation, and Earlier Intervention for Victims of Labor and Sex Trafficking	Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL	MA	2019-VT-BX-0037	$499,483	Closed
2018	Evaluating program enhancements for mentors working with children of prisoners	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS	MA	2014-JU-FX-0004	$2,499,597	Closed
2018	Informing The Utility of GPS Monitoring for Pretrial Probationary Supervision: An Examination of Reoffending and Collateral Consequences	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Social and Behavioral Sciences	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS	MA	2018-R2-CX-0004	$31,989	Closed
2018	Long-Term Impact of Risk Assessment and Risk-Need-Responsivity Reforms in Juvenile Justice	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL	MA	2016-JF-FX-0057	$499,998	Closed
2018	Operation250: An Evaluation of a Primary Prevention Campaign focused on Online Safety and Risk Assessment	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Prevention and Mitigation of Domestic Pathways to Terrorism	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS	MA	2018-ZA-CX-0002	$1,029,474	Closed
2015	Community-level influences on the sentencing of convicted sex offenders	NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2015-R2-CX-0039	$39,997	Closed
2015	Racialized Cues and Support for Justice Reinvestment: A Mixed-Method Study of Public Opinion	NIJ FY 15 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture, and Crime	University of Massachusetts Boston	MA	2015-IJ-CX-0003	$144,329	Closed
2014	Decision-Making in Sexual Assault Cases: Multi-site Replication Research on Sexual Violence Case Attrition in the U.S.	FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2012-IJ-CX-0052	$490,422	Closed
2014	Information Sharing and the Role of Sex Offender Registration and Notification	NIJ FY 14 Information Sharing and Its Effect on Tracking Sex Offenders and Community Awareness: Examining a Key Function of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2014-AW-BX-K003	$1,000,000	Closed
2014	The prosecution of child sexual abuse: A partnership to improve outcomes	NIJ FY 14 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2014-MU-MU-0001	$498,333	Closed
2013	Across the Universe? A Comparative Analysis of Violent Radicalization Across Three Offender Types with Implications for Criminal Justice Training and Education	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Radicalization to Violent Extremism in the United States	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2013-ZA-BX-0002	$530,298	Closed
2013	Evaluation of a Multi-Faceted, U.S. Community-Based Muslim-Led CVE Program	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Radicalization to Violent Extremism in the United States	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2013-ZA-BX-0003	$525,020	Closed
2013	Predictors of Injury and Reporting of Intraracial, Interracial, and Racially-Biased Nonsexual Assaults	NIJ FY 13 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2013-R2-CX-0033	$39,995	Closed
2013	Social Networks and Organized Crime	NIJ FY 13 Graduate Research Fellowship Program	University of Massachusetts Amherst	MA	2013-IJ-CX-0013	$24,990	Closed
2013	Understanding Law Enforcement Perspectives on Sex Offender Registration and Notification	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Justice Systems: Investigator-Initiated	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2013-IJ-CX-0028	$233,307	Closed
2012	Decision-Making in Sexual Assault Cases: Replication Research on Sexual Violence Case Attrition in the U.S.	NIJ FY 12 Replication Research on Sexual Violence Case Attrition	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2012-IJ-CX-0052	$1,197,686	Closed
2011	An Examination of the "Marriage Effect" on Desistance from Crime among U.S. Immigrants	NIJ FY 11 W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program	University of Massachusetts Boston	MA	2011-IJ-CX-0002	$99,149	Closed
2011	Systems for Identifying and Gathering Evidence of P2P Tracking	NIJ FY 11 Electronic Crime and Digital Evidence Recovery	University of Massachusetts Amherst	MA	2008-CE-CX-K005	$274,705	Closed
2010	Mobile Fingerprint Capture	NIJ FY 10 Office of Science and Technology Continuations	University of Massachusetts Lowell	MA	2009-IJ-CX-K021	$102,635	Closed