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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: Sentencing

Number of Awards: 463
Total Amount Awarded: $297,208,290

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2020 Assessing the Impact of Plea Bargaining on Subsequent Violence for Firearm Offenders Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation of Firearms Violence, Fiscal Year 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK MD 2020-75-CX-0004 $369,412 Closed
2020 Criminal Justice Requirements and Resources Consortium NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2018-75-CX-K006 $1,500,000 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Criminal Justice Testing and Evaluation Consortium NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2018-75-CX-K003 $3,500,000 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Determining Fracture Timing from Histological Characteristics of Cortical Bone Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA AZ 2020-75-CX-0015 $462,240 Closed
2020 Exploring Pathways to Desistance and Adjustment in Adulthood Among Juvenile Justice-Involved Females Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON OR 2020-JX-FX-0003 $817,514 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation of Firearms Violence, Fiscal Year 2020 TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY TX 2020-75-CX-0009 $435,020 Closed
2020 Oklahoma Methamphetamine Data Initiative Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020 OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY OK 2020-R2-CX-0014 $587,219 Closed
2020 Positive identification using frontal sinus comparisons: Developing empirically-based guidelines Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 DES MOINES UNIVERSITY OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL CENTER IA 2020-75-CX-0013 $357,871 Closed
2020 The Only Thing Constant is Change: A Longitudinal Analysis of Race, Gender, and District-Level Effects in Federal Sentencing, 1998 - 2016 Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 CINCINNATI UNIV OF OH 2020-R2-CX-0016 $74,722 Closed
2020 Understanding the potential for Multidisciplinary Threat Assessment Teams to prevent terrorism: Conducting a formative evaluation of the MassBay Threat Assessment Team Research and Evaluation of Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2020 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION, THE MA 2020-ZA-CX-0002 $488,390 Closed
2019 A Descriptive Analysis of Missing and Murdered Native Women and Children in Nebraska, Barriers to Reporting and Investigation, and Recommendations for Improving Access to Justice Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants Solicitation, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2019-75-CX-0014 $169,264 Closed
2019 A New Analytical Technique to Identify Surface Treatments of a Single Fiber GRF-STEM Continuations, FY 2019 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY DC 2017-R2-CX-0007 $49,950 Closed
2019 Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate Assessment and Evidence Interpretation Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 George Mason University VA 2019-DU-BX-0011 $495,056 Closed
2019 Blunt Force Trauma to the Ribs: Creating Predictive Models Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER ED NV 2019-R2-CX-0047 $100,000 Closed
2019 Criminal Justice Requirements and Resources Consortium NIJ FY19 Continuations THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2018-75-CX-K006 $1,500,000 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Criminal Justice Testing and Evaluation Consortium NIJ FY19 Continuations RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2018-75-CX-K003 $3,500,000 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Development of a Baseline Survey of Random Presence of Glass and Paint for the Interpretation of Evidence in the U.S. Courts Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 2019-DU-BX-0015 $326,820 Closed
2019 Development of a Probability Model to Predict Head Injury Risk in Pediatric Falls Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE KY 2019-DU-BX-0029 $636,419 Closed
2019 Evaluability Assessment of a Metropolitan Network Service Delivery Model to Connect Trafficked Persons with a Full Range of Victim Services Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, FY 2019 NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 2019-VT-BX-0036 $294,221 Closed
2019 Evaluation of Safe Horizon Family Court Program Evaluations of Services for Victims of Crime, FY 2019 RAND CORPORATION, THE CA 2019-V3-GX-0002 $496,739 Closed
2019 Exploring the Causal Role of Child Welfare System Experiences on Juvenile Justice Involvement Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, FY 2019 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE CA 2019-R2-CX-0011 $99,995 Closed
2019 Germ-Line Transformation of Forensically Important Flies Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 2019-DU-BX-0013 $279,983 Closed
2019 Improving Juror Comprehension of Forensic Testimony and Its Effects on Decision-Making and Evidence Evaluation Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, FY 2019 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 2019-75-CX-0010 $497,208 Closed
2019 Nanobiosensor Arrays for On-Site Multiplexed Detection of Protein Markers to Identify Forensically Relevant Body Fluids Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE CA 2019-NE-BX-0006 $600,544 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Neighborhood Crime Survey: An Examination of the Relationship Between Immigration and Victimization Research on Immigration and Crime, FY 2019 SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION CA 2019-R2-CX-0055 $1,020,679 Closed