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

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Subtopic: Courts

Number of Awards: 511
Total Amount Awarded: $314,658,985

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2009 The Effects of Defense Counsel on the Outcomes of Homicide
and Death Penalty Prosecutions 		NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research RAND Corporation CA 2009-IJ-CX-0013 $149,898 Closed
2009 The Role and Impact of Forensic Evidence on the Criminal Justice Process Supplement(Sexual Assault Kit Backlog Study) NIJ FY09 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Cal State LA University Auxiliary Services, Inc. CA 2006-DN-BX-0094 $100,000 Closed
2009 The Virtual Courtroom: Bringing Actual Forensic Training Content and Resources to Prosecutors Nationwide throug the Internet NIJ FY 09 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program New York Prosecutors Training Institute NY 2009-DN-BX-K202 $866,440 Closed
2009 US DOJ Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program New Mexico Department of Public Safety NM 2009-DY-BX-K246 $924,648 Closed
2009 Verification anfd Validation of LEAP An Encrypted Disk Drive Forensic Tool NIJ FY 09 Office of Science and Technology Continuations West Virginia University Research Corporation WV 2007-DN-BX-K126 $100,000 Closed
2009 Wisconsin Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance WI 2009-DN-BX-K244 $647,286 Closed
2008 2008 Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Texas Office of the Governor TX 2008-DN-BX-K169 $500,000 Closed
2008 Alternative Sentencing Policies for Drug Offenders: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Kansas Senate Bill 123 NIJ Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Loyola University Chicago IL 2006-IJ-CX-4032 $235,097 Closed
2008 Arizona Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Project NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Arizona Criminal Justice Commission AZ 2008-DN-BX-K145 $1,386,699 Closed
2008 Cold Case Enhanced Investigative Project (CCEIP) NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Grand Rapids MI 2008-DN-BX-K004 $213,575 Closed
2008 Dating Abuse Prevention in Teens of Moms with Domestic Violence Protection Orders NIJ FY 08 ORE Violence Against Women The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC 2008-WG-BX-0003 $375,125 Closed
2008 Developing a Common Metric for Evaluating Police Performance in Deadly Force Situations NIJ FY 08 ORE Policing and Public Safety Interventions Washington State University Pullman WA 2008-IJ-CX-0015 $282,551 Closed
2008 Digital Forensic Webinar Training NIJ FY 08 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Fairleigh Dickinson University NJ 2008-DN-BX-K415 $321,667 Closed
2008 Discourses of Death: Language, Juries and "Future Danger" in Texas Death Penalty Trials NIJ FY 09 ORE Graduate Research Fellowship The Regents of the University of California CA 2009-IJ-CX-0005 $20,000 Closed
2008 Do Domestic Violence Courts Reduce Recidivism? A Statewide Impact Evaluation in New York NIJ FY 08 ORE Violence Against Women Fund for the City of New York / Center for Court Innovation NY 2008-WG-BX-0001 $278,824 Closed
2008 Forensic Justice Center: FY2008 Byrne Memorial Congressionally Mandated Award NIJ FY08 Office of Science and Technology Congressionally Directed Awards East Central University OK 2008-DD-BX-K302 $335,381 Closed
2008 Governor-mandated Post-Conviction DNA Testing of Biological Evidence in Case Files NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Virginia Department of Forensic Science VA 2008-DN-BX-K128 $4,520,295 Closed
2008 Identifying Offending Trajectories for First-Time Youth Offenders: Exploring the Influence of Risk and Protective Factors NIJ FY 09 ORE Graduate Research Fellowship The University of Alabama AL 2009-IJ-CX-0024 $19,999 Closed
2008 Jurors'' Judgments About Forensic Identification Evidence NIJ FY 08 ORE Social Science Research in Forensic Sciences Arizona State University AZ 2008-DN-BX-0003 $496,450 Closed
2008 Kentucky Innocence Project NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet KY 2008-DN-BX-K184 $1,164,441 Closed
2008 Pathways to Desistance NIJ FY 08 ORE Crime and Justice University of Pittsburgh PA 2008-IJ-CX-0023 $995,707 Closed
2008 Peerless: A System for Identifying and Gathering Evidence of P2P Trafficking NIJ FY 08 Electronic Crime and Digital Evidence Recovery: Invited Full Proposals University of Massachusetts Amherst MA 2008-CE-CX-K005 $237,834 Closed
2008 Post-Conviction DNA Testing NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Washington Department of Commerce WA 2008-DN-BX-K127 $250,306 Closed
2008 Reducing Courts' Failure to Appear Rate: A Procedural Justice Approach NIJ FY 08 ORE Crime and Justice Board of Regents, Univ of Nebraska, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2008-IJ-CX-0022 $197,507 Closed
2008 The Costs and Benefits of the DNA Field Experiment NIJ Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations The Urban Institute DC 2008-DN-BX-0001 $149,283 Closed