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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This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Number of Awards: 27
Total Amount Awarded: $18,894,625

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2022	Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective	NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearm Violence	SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-22-AG-00266-NIJB	$278,976	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective	Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation of Firearms Violence, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-75-CX-0009	$435,020	Closed
2020	National Youth Gang Survey	National Youth Gang Survey, Fiscal Year 2020	THE RAND CORPORATION	CA	2020-JX-FX-K007	$996,640	Open
2019	Research and Evaluation on Gangs and Gang Violence NIJ-2019-15270	Research and Evaluation on Gangs and Gang Violence, FY 2019	EVIDENT CHANGE	CA	2019-R2-CX-0015	$650,000	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Leaving gangs and desisting from crime using a multidisciplinary team approach: A randomized control trial evaluation of the Gang Reduction Initiative of Denver	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Gangs and Gang Violence	THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO	CO	2018-75-CX-0028	$600,797	Closed
2018	Reducing Gang Violence: A Long-Term Follow-Up of a Randomized Trial of Functional Family Therapy	NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Gangs and Gang Violence	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE	MD	2018-75-CX-0027	$770,657	Closed
2018	Solve Crime. Build Trust? Investigating Homicides and Shootings in Los Angeles	NIJ FY18 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices	JUSTICE AND SECURITY STRATEGIES, INC.	MD	2018-75-CX-0003	$500,000	Closed
2018	Untangling the Web of Violence: The Network Effects of Civil Gang Injunctions	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION AT CSUSB	CA	2017-JF-FX-0043	$120,208	Closed
2016	Project SECURE: Keeping Kids Safe in San Francisco Unified School District.	Comprehensive School Safety Initiative	SRI INTERNATIONAL	CA	2016-CK-BX-0002	$4,641,134	Closed
2014	A Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism	University of Maryland	MD	2014-ZA-BX-0002	$639,736	Closed
2014	Chicago Public Schools's Connect and Redirect to Respect (CRR) Program to use social media monitoring to identify and connect youth to behavioral interventions.	NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe	Board of Education City of Chicago	IL	2014-CK-BX-0002	$2,197,178	Closed
2014	Gangs on the Street, Gangs in Prison: Their Nature, Interrelationship, Control, and Re-Entry	NIJ FY 14 Research on Gangs and Gang Violence	AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University	AZ	2014-MU-CX-0111	$840,807	Closed
2014	Mapping Transnational Gang Activity	FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards	University of San Diego	CA	2012-R2-CX-0028	$79,982	Closed
2014	Reducing Gang Violence A Randomized Trial of Functional Family Therapy	NIJ FY 14 Research on Gangs and Gang Violence	University of Maryland	MD	2014-R2-CX-0001	$472,906	Closed
2013	Measuring Success in Focused Deterrence	NIJ FY 13 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Parterships	TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	PA	2013-IJ-CX-0056	$298,264	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
2012	Sex Trafficking and Gangs in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region Area	NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	University of San Diego	CA	2012-R2-CX-0028	$398,824	Closed
2012	Understanding Pathways to and away from Violent Radicalization among Resettled Somali Refugees	NIJ FY 12 Research on Domestic Radicalization	Children''s Hospital Corporation	MA	2012-ZA-BX-0004	$593,894	Closed
2011	Moving Forward on Gang Prevention: Knowledge and Application	NIJ FY 2011 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	University of Southern California	CA	2008-IJ-CX-0016	$37,936	Closed
2011	The long-term consequences of gang membership	NIJ FY 11 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program	AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University	AZ	2011-JP-FX-0101	$25,000	Closed
2010	It Came from the North: Estimating the Production of Synthetic Drugs in Quebec Canada	NIJ FY 10 ORE Research on International Organized Crime	The Regents of The University of California	CA	2010-IJ-CX-0020	$367,845	Closed
2009	2009 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF''S DEPARTMENT	CA	2009-DN-BX-K006	$350,000	Closed
2008	Moving Forward on Gang Prevention: Knowledge and Application	NIJ FY08 ORE Research on Crime Prevention and Control: Focus on Gangs	University of Southern California	CA	2008-IJ-CX-0016	$399,882	Closed
2006	A Case Study of Human Trafficking: The Transnational Movement of Chinese Women for Sex Work	NIJ FY06 ORE Transnational Crime	Rutgers, The State University	NJ	2006-IJ-CX-0008	$284,287	Closed
2005	Evaluation of the Chicago Project for Violence PreventionA Proposal by Northwestern University	Evaluation of OJJDP's Discretionary Funds Project	Northwestern University	IL	2005-MU-MU-0033	$999,662	Closed