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: 134
Total Amount Awarded: $72,146,056

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2013	Improving Hot-Spot Policing through Behavioral Interventions	NIJ FY 13 Research on Offender Decision-Making	The University of Chicago	IL	2013-R2-CX-0006	$760,230	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
2013	Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority	IL	2013-DY-BX-K002	$332,533	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	A Chicago Police Department initiative to resolve cold case homicides through comprehensive case reviews and use of current DNA technologies.	NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	Chicago, City of	IL	2012-DN-BX-K004	$499,565	Closed
2012	Chicago Police Department's Predictive Policing Demonstration and Evaluation Program: Phase 2 Continuation	NIJ FY 12 Office of Science and Technology Continuations	Chicago Police Department	IL	2011-IJ-CX-K014	$1,000,000	Closed
2012	Evaluating the Impact of the NIJ Body Armor Program	NIJ FY 12 Evaluating the Impact of the NIJ Body Armor Program	NORC	IL	2012-R2-CX-K008	$399,884	Closed
2012	Office of the Cook County Medical Examiner's Electronic Data Management System	NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Cook County	IL	2012-CD-BX-0027	$175,000	Closed
2012	Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority	IL	2012-CD-BX-0001	$294,523	Closed
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
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	A National Probability-Based Household Survey on Teen Dating Violence	NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Violence and Victimization	NORC at the University of Chicago	IL	2011-WG-BX-0020	$899,908	Closed
2011	Automated Sperm Detection in forensic DNA analysis: Implications for Rape Kit Analysis	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	Arryx, Inc	IL	2011-DN-BX-K562	$360,748	Closed
2011	Chicago Police Predictive Policing Demonstration and Evaluation Project: Phase 2	NIJ FY 11 Predictive Policing: Phase II	Chicago Police Department	IL	2011-IJ-CX-K014	$1,500,000	Closed
2011	Decision-making Factors Influencing the Wearing of Body Armor: A National Study	NIJ FY 11 Body Armor Standards Research for Criminal Justice Applications	NORC	IL	2011-IJ-CX-K056	$383,641	Closed
2011	DEVELOPMENT OF A MODERN COMPENDIUM OF MICROCRYSTAL TESTS FOR ILLICIT DRUGS AND DIVERTED PHARMACEUTICALS	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	McCrone Research Institute	IL	2011-DN-BX-K528	$199,712	Closed
2011	Examining the Effects of Environmental Degradation	NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	McCrone Research Institute	IL	2011-DN-BX-K548	$370,539	Closed
2011	Illinois' Statewide Crime Lab Improvement Program	NIJ FY 11 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority	IL	2011-CD-BX-0003	$791,358	Closed
2010	A Dating Violence Prevention Program for Each Grade in Middle School: A Longitudinal Multi-Level Experiment.	NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on VAW: Sexual Violence, Teen Dating Violence and Stalking	National Opinion Research Center	IL	2010-MU-MU-0008	$807,256	Closed
2010	FY10 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	FY2010 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority	IL	2010-CD-BX-0015	$952,434	Closed
2010	Junior Faculty Grant Program: Comparative Evaluation of Court-Based Responses to Offenders with Mental Illness	NIJ FY 10 ORE Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships	The University of Chicago	IL	2010-IJ-CX-0033	$440,437	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	Chicago Police Department's Predictive Policing Demonstration and Evaluation Planning Program	NIJ FY09 Predictive Policing Demonstration and Evaluation Program	Chicago Police Department	IL	2009-DE-BX-K223	$196,406	Closed
2009	Developing End-User Criteria and a Prototype for an Elder Abuse Assessment System	NIJ FY 09 ORE Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	IL	2009-IJ-CX-0202	$307,436	Closed
2009	Development of an Automated Holographic Optical Trapping Method for Rape Kit Analysis	NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Research and Development: Invited Full Proposals	Arryx, Inc	IL	2009-DN-BX-K260	$362,800	Closed