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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.

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

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Subtopic: Sex offenses

Number of Awards: 638
Total Amount Awarded: $261,932,431

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2018 Using Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling in Assessing the Impact of Police Signaling on Investigative and Prosecutorial Outcomes in Sexual Assault Reports NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Stalking, and Teen Dating Violence CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY OH 2018-VA-CX-0002 $714,199 Closed
2017 A Confirmatory Test for Sperm in Sexual Assault Samples using a Microfluidic-Integrated Cell Phone Imaging System NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE CA 2017-NE-BX-0004 $369,224 Closed
2017 A highly sensitive magnetic nanoparticle based method for reliable and efficient screening of forensic evidence samples NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes INNOGENOMICS TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C. LA 2017-NE-BX-0007 $350,656 Closed
2017 Bioinformatic Analaysis of Big Proteomic Data: A New Forensic Tool to Identify Menstrual Blood & Body Fluid Mixtures NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes NEW YORK, CITY OF NY 2017-NE-BX-0003 $667,774 Closed
2017 Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Automated Fraction Collection for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC IN 2017-IJ-CX-0003 $40,780 Closed
2017 Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2016-DN-BX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2017 Characterization of personal and condom lubricants using DART-TOFMS and comprehensive-GC-MS NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of Central Florida FL 2016-DN-BX-0004 $50,000 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 Development and evaluation of miRNA panels for body fluid identification using capillary electrophoresis and massively parallel sequencing methods NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Sam Houston State University TX 2016-DN-BX-0001 $49,987 Open
2017 Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 2017-VF-GX-0004 $679,988 Closed
2017 Gautier Police Department SAK Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) City of Gautier MS 2017-AK-BX-0132 $21,478 Open
2017 Improving Seminal Fluid Detection Sensitivity in Extended Post-Coital Intervals by QQQ Mass Spectrometry NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of Denver CO 2015-R2-CX-0024 $43,719 Closed
2017 Increasing Safety in High Need Schools: an Evaluation of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Schools NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative CORNELL UNIVERSITY NY 2017-CK-BX-0012 $2,975,446 Closed
2017 New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision FY 2017 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence-Inventory, Tracking and Reporting Project. NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) New York State Department of Corrections and Community Super NY 2017-AK-BX-0012 $483,666 Open
2017 Pasco Sheriff's Evidence Tracking Automation NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) Pasco County Sheriff''s Office FL 2017-AK-BX-0008 $238,608 Open
2017 SAFE Evidence Tracker NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) City of Lake Mary FL 2017-AK-BX-0011 $6,130 Open
2017 Sexual Assault and Forensic Evidence Program NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) HIGHLANDS COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FL 2017-AK-BX-0010 $58,771 Closed
2017 Tracking Sexual Assault Kits in Iowa NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) Iowa Department of Justice IA 2017-MU-BX-0133 $796,985 Open
2017 Typing Highly Degraded DNA Using Circularized Molecules and Target Enrichment NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2017-IJ-CX-0010 $46,155 Closed
2016 A longitudinal examination of teen dating violence from adolescence to young adulthood Data Resources Program 2016: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data Ohio University OH 2016-R2-CX-0035 $40,000 Closed
2016 A New Approach to Utilizing Evidence from Sexual Assault Kits in Texas: Benefits and Costs of a Universal Testing Statute Research and Evaluation in Support of the Recommendations of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing Police Foundation DC 2016-IJ-CX-0019 $235,794 Closed
2016 A rotational platform-driven microdevice for differential separation, purification, & amplification of sexual assault forensic samples Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2016-NE-BX-0002 $676,460 Closed
2016 Automation of a Sperm DNA Capture Assay for Forensic Applications Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes General Electric Company NY 2016-DN-BX-0156 $499,994 Closed
2016 Characterization and Classification of Sexual Assault Lubricants using Direct Analysis in Real Time at Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Central Florida FL 2016-NE-BX-0001 $324,082 Closed
2016 Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2016-DN-BX-0005 $50,000 Closed