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: 7,301
Total Amount Awarded: $3,849,340,810

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2022	Examining the changing dynamics of homicide in Los Angeles: 1990 - present	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Violent Crime and Firearm Violence in the Community	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE	CA	15PNIJ-22-GG-01422-RESS	$877,000	Open
2022	Expanding and validating microbiome database for estimating the postmortem interval	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY	CO	15PNIJ-22-GG-04402-MUMU	$834,503	Open
2022	Exploring mentor practices using data from OJJDP’s Mentoring Enhancement Demonstration Program	NIJ FY22 Youth Mentoring Research and Evaluation	AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES	VA	15PNIJ-22-GG-01425-MENT	$200,285	Past Project Period End Date
2022	FIRE DEBRIS INTERPRETATION USING QUANTITATIVE MEASURES OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC FEATURES IN MEDIUM RANGE IGNITABLE LIQUIDS AND THE USE OF GRAPHICAL DISPLAY TO DEMONSTRATE DATA SUFFICIENCY	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE	VA	15PNIJ-22-GG-03577-SLFO	$141,921	Open
2022	First Step Act: Review and Revalidation of the Bureau of Prisons Needs Assessment System	First Step Act: Review and Revalidation of the Bureau of Prisons Needs Assessment System, Fiscal Year 2022	Dr. Grant Duwe		GS-00F-219CA DJO-NIJ-16-G-0127 FSA3	$97,500	Open
2022	First Step Act: Review and Revalidation of the Bureau of Prisons Needs Assessment System	First Step Act: Review and Revalidation of the Bureau of Prisons Needs Assessment System, Fiscal Year 2022	Dr. Zachary Hamilton		GS-00F-219CA DJO-NIJ-16-G-0127 FSA4	$82,875	Open
2022	FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence		FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS	$300,000	Open
2022	Footwear Databasing to Support Forensic Intelligence	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	WV	15PNIJ-22-GG-04429-RESS	$623,965	Open
2022	Forensic Fire Death Investigation: Investigating the Effects of Body Mass and Decomposition Sequence on Fire Burn Speed and Patterns and the Development of Performance Standards	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-22-GG-04408-SLFO	$1,087,985	Open
2022	Forensic STR Sequencing Nomenclature Resource	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0004	$541,034	Open
2022	Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, Fiscal Year 2021		RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	15PNIJ-21-GK-02192-MUMU	$4,000,000	Open
2022	Formative Evaluation and Evaluability Assessment of a Family Justice Center	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime	DEVELOPMENT SERVICES GROUP, INC	MD	15PNIJ-22-GG-03292-NONF	$499,500	Open
2022	Funding Support for the Operations of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine	NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Funding Support for the Operations of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine	NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES	DC	15PNIJ-22-GK-00032-NIJB	$250,000	Closed
2022	Gull (Laridae) Taphonomy at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Maine, USA	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	15PNIJ-22-GG-04407-SLFO	$139,905	Open
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
2022	Human Trafficking Project	NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply — Byrne Discretionary Community Project Funding/Byrne Discretionary Grants Program	SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-22-GK-00246-BRND	$1,187,000	Open
2022	Identifying the Scope and Context of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) in New Mexico and Improving MMIP Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women	UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA	NE	15PNIJ-22-GG-01625-REVA	$249,382	Open
2022	Implementation of NPS Discovery – An Early Warning Systems for Novel Drug Intelligence, Surveillance, Monitoring, Response, and Forecasting using Drug Materials and Toxicology Populations in the US	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE FREDRIC RIEDERS FAMILY RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION	PA	15PNIJ-22-GG-04434-MUMU	$485,938	Past Project Period End Date
2022	Improve craniometric ancestry estimation with deep learning methods	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04431-RESS	$306,271	Open
2022	Improving Outcomes for Child Sex Trafficking Victims, Phase 2: A Rigorous Outcome Evaluation of Love146’s Long-Term Services (LTS) Program	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime	UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE	NH	15PNIJ-22-GG-03291-NONF	$1,244,466	Open
2022	Improving Strategies for Investigating & Prosecuting Hate Crimes: A National Yet Local Approach	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-01000-RESS	$994,787	Open
2022	Integrated Law Enforcement and Mental Health Responses in Tucson: An Impact and Cost Benefit Analysis	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice: Diversion and Restorative Justice	MDRC	NY	15PNIJ-22-GG-03580-RESS	$999,345	Open
2022	Inter-laboratory variation in interpretation of DNA mixtures	NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Funding to Support the Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Program	NOBLIS, INC.	VA	2020-R2-CX-0049	$132,817	Past Project Period End Date
2022	Interagency Agreement to Support Graduate Research Internships in Forensic Science and Criminal Justice Contexts (NSF-NIJ INTERN)	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2022	National Science Foundation		DJO-NIJ-22-RO-0008	$200,000	Open
2022	Investigating Impulsivity as a Root Cause of School Violence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on School Safety	AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES	VA	15PNIJ-22-GG-03140-RESS	$499,872	Open