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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.

Fiscal year 2021 Awards

NIJ grantees will be notified through the JustGrants system when they have received an award. All grants not awarded by September 30th will be made as soon as possible on a rolling basis and no later than December 31, 2021. Applicants not receiving a FY 2021 award, for which they competitively applied, will be notified as soon as possible, but no later than the calendar year-end. Please continue to visit the NIJ website for updates on NIJ grant awards. NIJ will update the list below as they are released.

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Keyword(s): Gangs

Number of Awards: 27
Total Amount Awarded: $19,077,814

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2020 Assessing the Relationship between Immigration Status, Crime, Gang Affiliation, and Victimization Research into Immigration and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020 CSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION CA 2020-R2-CX-0028 $462,165 Open
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 Open
2020 National Youth Gang Survey National Youth Gang Survey, Fiscal Year 2020 RAND CORPORATION, THE 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 NATIONAL COUNCIL ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY CA 2019-R2-CX-0015 $650,000 Open
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 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE CO 2018-75-CX-0028 $600,797 Open
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 MD 2018-75-CX-0027 $770,657 Open
2018 Solve Crime. Build Trust? Investigating Homicides and Shootings in Los Angeles NIJ FY18 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices JUSTICE & SECURITY STRATEGIES, INC. MD 2018-75-CX-0003 $500,000 Open
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 Past Project Period End Date
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 Open
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