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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.
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Subtopic: Law enforcement

Number of Awards: 1,688
Total Amount Awarded: $1,166,068,769

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2017 A Point Process Model with Spatiotemporal Covariates for Predicting Crime NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Carnegie Mellon University PA 2016-R2-CX-0021 $49,548 Closed
2017 A Randomized Controlled Trial on Community Infused Problem-Oriented Policing in Crime Hotspots NIJ FY17 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices (Beyond Crime Reduction) NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 2017-R2-CX-0017 $1,399,828 Closed
2017 An Investigation into the genetic basis of human facial morphology and its prediction from DNA. NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Trustees of Indiana University IN 2015-R2-CX-0023 $39,569 Closed
2017 Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH TX 2016-MU-BX-K007 $7,455,832 Past Project Period End Date
2017 Chemometric Processing of DART-HRMS-derived Dark Matter for the Identification of New Psychoactive Substances NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE NY 2017-R2-CX-0020 $558,282 Closed
2017 City of Miami Police FY 2017 SAFE-ITR Inventory, Tracking and Reporting Project NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) City of Miami FL 2017-AK-BX-0013 $264,263 Open
2017 Cocooning and Procedural Justice Dialectics: A Clustered Randomized Field Trial to Assess Crime Reduction and Citizen Perspectives Using Two Evidence-Based Programs In Prince George's County, MD NIJ FY17 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices (Beyond Crime Reduction) POLICE EXECUTIVE RESEARCH FORUM DC 2017-R2-CX-0023 $855,800 Past Project Period End Date
2017 Cost-effective Printed Microfluidic Devices for RapidScreening of Narcotics and Explosives at the Point ofInterdiction NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia VA 2015-R2-CX-0033 $45,962 Closed
2017 Coupling Raman Spectroscopy with Ambient Sampling, Portable Mass Spectrometry for On-site, High-Throughput Evidence Confirmation on a Single Instrumental Platform NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Illinois State University IL 2017-R2-CX-0022 $298,100 Closed
2017 Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Heroin and Crime Initiative: Informing the investigation and prosecution of heroin-related overdose NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime 2017 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY OH 2017-DN-BX-0168 $975,401 Closed
2017 Delaware Opiate Metric Intelligence Project NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime 2017 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE DE 2017-IJ-CX-0016 $588,717 Closed
2017 Development of a comprehensive genetic tool for identification of Cannabis sativa samples for forensic and intelligence purposes NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Sam Houston State University TX 2015-R2-CX-0030 $48,907 Closed
2017 Development of Modern Subadult Standards: Improved Age and Sex Estimation in U.S. Forensic Practice NIJ FY17 Non-solicited Applications Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada Reno NV 2015-DN-BX-K409 $404,255 Open
2017 Development of White-tailed Deer Genetic Database for the Forensic Identification of Poached Samples NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations West Virginia University WV 2015-R2-CX-0010 $50,000 Closed
2017 Disrupting the Pathways to Gang Violence for Youth of Color NIJ FY17 W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime MULTNOMAH, COUNTY OF OR 2017-MU-MU-0055 $468,740 Closed
2017 Dynamic, Graph-Based Risk Assessments for the Detection of Violent Extremist Radicalization Trajectories Using Large Scale Social and Behavioral Data NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CO 2017-ZA-CX-0002 $731,194 Closed
2017 Enhancing School Resource Officers Effectiveness through Online Professional and Job Embedded Coaching NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FL 2017-CK-BX-0019 $990,212 Closed
2017 Evaluability Assessment and Baseline Study of OVC’s Vision 21 Law Enforcement and the Communities They Serve: Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm Program NIJ FY17 Evaluation of OVC's Vision 21: Law Enforcement and the Communities They Serve: Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm Research Triangle Institute NC 2017-VF-GX-0006 $499,826 Closed
2017 Evaluating Impacts of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program: An Alternative to Arrest Policing Strategy NIJ FY17 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices (Beyond Crime Reduction) DREXEL UNIVERSITY PA 2017-CK-BX-0001 $1,081,046 Closed
2017 Evaluating Promising School Staff and Resource-Officer Approaches for Reducing Harsh Discipline, Suspensions and Arrests NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE MD 2017-CK-BX-0014 $2,977,876 Closed
2017 Firearm Forensics Black-Box Studies for Examiners and Algorithms using Measured 3D Surface Topographies NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Cadre Research Labs, LLC IL 2017-IJ-CX-0024 $196,415 Closed
2017 Funding to support the operation of the Secretariat of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37, Biometrics NIJ FY17 Office of Science and Technology Continuations AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE, INCORPORATED DC 2016-IJ-CX-0112 $42,000 Closed
2017 Identifying and Informing Strategies for Disrupting Drug Distribution Networks: An Application to Opiate Flows in Pennsylvania NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime 2017 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE PA 2017-IJ-CX-0017 $990,002 Closed
2017 Identifying the Highest Priority Criminal Justice Technology Needs – Year 5 Continuation NIJ FY17 Office of Science and Technology Continuations RAND Corporation CA 2013-MU-CX-K003 $1,000,000 Closed
2017 Improved Officer Decision-Making and Stress Management with Virtual Environments NIJ FY17 Research to Improve Officer Decision-making THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2017-R2-CX-0025 $914,757 Closed