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.

Number of Awards: 7,391
Total Amount Awarded: $3,904,954,950

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2020	Building the Evidence Base on De-escalation Training for Law Enforcement: A Multi-Agency Randomized Control Trial	Research and Evaluation on Policing, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI	OH	2020-R2-CX-0026	$599,255	Open
2020	Characterizing and Preventing Domestic Terrorism: A Mixed-Methods Study of Five Far-Right Terrorist Groups	Research and Evaluation of Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2020	DEVELOPMENT SERVICES GROUP, INC	MD	2020-ZA-CX-0003	$998,599	Open
2020	Comparative Assessment of Emerging Technologies for Body Fluid Identification	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION	PA	2020-DQ-BX-0015	$501,115	Closed
2020	Comprehensive Assessment of Novel Reference Materials and Analytical Methods for the Analysis and Interpretation of Organic and Inorganic Gunshot Residues	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	2020-DQ-BX-0010	$476,517	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Corrections Work's Adverse Effects and a Total Worker Health Program to Enhance Well-being (Topic 2)	Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in Criminal Justice System, Fiscal Year 2020	OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY	OR	2020-R2-CX-0006	$764,928	Open
2020	Criminal Justice Requirements and Resources Consortium	NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations	THE RAND CORPORATION	CA	2018-75-CX-K006	$1,500,000	Open
2020	Criminal Justice Requirements Resources Consortium	NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations	INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE	VA	2018-75-CX-K007	$300,000	Open
2020	Criminal Justice Testing and Evaluation Consortium	NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2018-75-CX-K003	$3,500,000	Open
2020	Cross-Site Analysis and Case Study of STOP Program Grantee Perspectives on Violence Prevention and Mental Health Training Program Implementation	Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA	FL	2020-RF-CX-0001	$478,553	Closed
2020	Cyberstalking - Research and Evaluation to Enhance Criminal Justice	Research and Evaluation of Technology-Facilitated Abuse for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	THE RAND CORPORATION	CA	2020-R2-CX-0002	$599,368	Closed
2020	Detection of Ignitable Liquid Residues in Fire Debris by Using Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS)	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY	TN	2020-DQ-BX-0003	$285,229	Open
2020	Determining Fracture Timing from Histological Characteristics of Cortical Bone	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA	AZ	2020-75-CX-0015	$462,240	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Develop non-PCR-based target enrichment reagents and methods for MPS analysis of forensic DNA	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ	CA	2020-R2-CX-0029	$100,000	Closed
2020	Developing Subadult Sex Estimation Standards Using Adult Morphological Sex Traits and an Ontogenetic Approach	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	NV	2020-R2-CX-0024	$100,000	Closed
2020	Development of an Open Source Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS) Search Software and Library Building Tool for the Analysis of Complex Drug Mixtures	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0012	$198,290	Closed
2020	Developmental evaluation of a combinatorial qPCR multiplex for forensic body fluid identification	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY	VA	2020-R2-CX-0031	$49,994	Closed
2020	Disrupting Human Trafficking Networks through Mathematical Modeling: Addressing Replacement Effects and Uncertain Information	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE	NY	2020-R2-CX-0022	$100,000	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Effects of Contradictory Signals on Post-Prison Labor Market Outcomes	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	OH	2020-R2-CX-0021	$91,465	Closed
2020	Efficient and Effective SNP System for Analysis of Highly Degraded DNA Samples	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	2020-DQ-BX-0005	$444,723	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Emerging Drug Threats	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	Drug Enforcement Administration		DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0006	$125,000	Open
2020	Enhancing Response to Victims: A Formative Evaluation of OVC's Law Enforcement-Based Victim Services Program	Research and Evaluation of Victims of Crime, Fiscal Year 2020	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2020-V3-GX-0074	$804,300	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Evaluability Assessment of the Weinberg Center for Elder Justice's Elder Abuse Shelter Services	Research and Evaluation of Victims of Crime, Fiscal Year 2020	THE RAND CORPORATION	CA	2020-V3-GX-0077	$302,950	Closed
2020	Evaluating the Robustness and Ruggedness of a Statistical Method for Comparison of Mass Spectral Data for Seized Drug Identification	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	MI	2020-DQ-BX-0001	$228,918	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Evaluation of Digital Evidence Processing Efficiencies in Publicly Funded Crime Laboratories	Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2020-DQ-BX-0016	$348,052	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Evaluation of nuclear DNA from rootless hair for forensic purposes	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ	CA	2020-DQ-BX-0014	$747,384	Past Project Period End Date