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: 51
Total Amount Awarded: $23,138,036

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2015	Guilty Plea and Latino Initiatives	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	University of Illinois Springfield	IL	2015-DY-BX-K005	$753,958	Closed
2015	Instilling a Culture of Continuous Learning From Criminal Justice System Errors: A Multi-Stakeholder Sentinel Event Review of Process in Philadelphia	NIJ FY 15 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors	Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	PA	2015-R2-CX-K040	$351,052	Open
2015	Orange County Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	County of Orange	CA	2015-DY-BX-K003	$250,000	Closed
2015	Postconviction DNA Program	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	Cook County State''s Attorney''s Office	IL	2015-DY-BX-K007	$400,701	Closed
2015	Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the InnocentUniversity of Kansas School of Law Multi-State Partnership for Innocence	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.	KS	2015-DY-BX-K004	$122,994	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
2015	Sentinel Events: A Sustainable Model for System Change	NIJ FY 15 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	MI	2015-R2-CX-K041	$724,294	Closed
2015	WMU-Cooley Law School Innocence Project: Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent in Michigan	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University	MI	2015-DY-BX-K008	$418,099	Closed
2014	A Sentinel Events Approach to Addressing Suicide and Self-Harm in Jail	NIJ FY 14 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors	Vera Institute of Justice	NY	2014-IJ-CX-0030	$399,861	Closed
2014	Arizona DNA Advocacy Project	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University	AZ	2014-DY-BX-K001	$934,003	Closed
2014	California DNA Assistance Program (CADNAP)	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	California Governor''s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)	CA	2014-DY-BX-K002	$1,310,522	Closed
2014	Case Deconstruction of Criminal Investigative Failures	NIJ FY 14 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors	Texas State University	TX	2014-IJ-CX-0037	$389,690	Closed
2014	Implementing, Disseminating and Translating Evidence-Based Policy/Practice in Community Corrections	NIJ FY 14 Social Science Research on Implementation, Dissemination, and Translation FY 2014	George Mason University	VA	2014-IJ-CX-0034	$46,859	Closed
2014	Massachusetts Evidence Inventory and Innocence Case Review Project	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	Committee for Public Counsel Services	MA	2014-DY-BX-K003	$391,345	Closed
2014	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	New Mexico Department of Public Safety	NM	2014-DY-BX-K005	$620,269	Closed
2014	SADO''s Postconviction DNA Testing Project	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	State Appellate Defender Office	MI	2014-DY-BX-K004	$337,314	Closed
2014	Translational Criminology: Research and Public Policy	NIJ FY 14 Social Science Research on Implementation, Dissemination, and Translation FY 2014	Florida State University	FL	2014-IJ-CX-0035	$58,545	Closed
2013	Estimating the Prevalence of Wrongful Convictions	NIJ FY 13 Social Science Research on Forensic Science	Urban Institute	DC	2013-IJ-CX-0004	$367,894	Closed
2012	Understanding Influence Across Justice Agencies: The Spread of Community Reformsfrom Law Enforcement to Prosecutor Organizations	NIJ FY 12 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data	Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University	IL	2012-R2-CX-0022	$20,818	Closed
2011	A Proposal for Social Science Research on Wrongful Conviction	NIJ FY 2011 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	American University	DC	2009-IJ-CX-4110	$450,858	Closed
2011	Learning From Error In American Criminal Justice	NIJ FY 11 Visiting Fellowship Program	James M Doyle	MA	2011-IJ-CX-K060	$191,239	Closed
2011	Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program - Fiscal Year 2010	NIJ FY 11 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations	Washington State Patrol	WA	2010-DY-BX-K404	$576,631	Closed
2010	Negotiated Justice: The Legal, Administrative and Policy Implications of "Pattern or Practice" Police Misconduct Reform	NIJ FY 10 ORE Ph.D.Graduate Research Fellowship Program	American University	DC	2010-IJ-CX-0001	$25,000	Closed
2009	A Proposal for Social Science Research on Wrongful Conviction	NIJ FY 09 ORE Social Science Research on Exoneration	George Mason University	VA	2009-IJ-CX-0110	$589,315	Closed
2007	A Multi-site Assessment of Court-Focused Elder Abuse Initiatives	NIJ FY 07 ORE Elder Abuse	American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education	DC	2007-IJ-CX-0107	$219,409	Closed