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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: Gun violence

Number of Awards: 99
Total Amount Awarded: $66,918,101

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2016 Firearm Involvement in Delinquent Youth and Collateral Consequences in Young Adulthood: A Prospective Longitudinal Study Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence Northwestern University IL 2016-R2-CX-0039 $425,000 Open
2016 Initiation of a Gunshot Wound Trauma Atlas From Cranial Bone Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Research Foundation for the State University of New York NY 2016-DN-BX-0155 $316,473 Closed
2016 Prospective Evaluation of California's Armed and Prohibited Persons System Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS CA 2014-R2-CX-0012 $1,048,000 Closed
2016 The Gun Epidemic Reconsidered: Creating a Foundation to Reduce Firearm Violence Among Urban Youth Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK, INC. NY 2016-IJ-CX-0008 $585,000 Closed
2016 The Impact of State-Level Firearms Laws on Homicide Rates by Race/Ethnicity Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2016-MU-MU-0047 $610,000 Closed
2016 Using Public Health Datasets to Analyze Legal Intervention Shootings Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence President and Fellows of Harvard College/Harvard T.H. Chan MA 2016-R2-CX-0038 $654,910 Open
2015 Evaluating Gunshot Detection Technology (GDT) to Aid in the Reduction of Firearms Violence NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence Reduction Urban Institute DC 2015-R2-CX-K147 $622,432 Closed
2015 Evaluating the law enforcement, prosecutor, and court response to firearm-related crimes in St. Louis NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Justice Systems Curators of the University of Missouri on Behalf of UMSL MO 2015-IJ-CX-0015 $564,773 Closed
2015 Examination of the Short-and Long-term Impact of School Shootings NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles CA 2015-VF-GX-K113 $1,254,975 Closed
2015 RECOVERY OF DEFACED SERIAL NUMBERS USING INFRARED THERMAL IMAGING NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Idaho State University ID 2015-R2-CX-0017 $50,000 Closed
2015 Sentinel Events: A Sustainable Model for System Change NIJ FY 15 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 2015-R2-CX-K041 $724,294 Closed
2015 Viable, Affordable, and Meaningful Integration of Organic and Inorganic Analysis of Firearms Discharge Residue NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes West Virginia University Research Corporation WV 2015-DN-BX-K048 $212,875 Closed
2014 Advancing audio forensics of gunshot acoustics. NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Montana State University MT 2014-DN-BX-K034 $184,957 Closed
2014 An Exploratory Analysis of the United States Firearm Transfer Regulatory System NIJ FY 14 Data Resources Program 2014: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data David G. Mueller MO 2014-R2-CX-0008 $39,520 Closed
2014 Firearm Legislation and Firearm Violence Across Space and Time: A Comprehensive Data Collection Effort NIJ FY 14 Data Resources Program 2014: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data The Ohio State University OH 2014-R2-CX-0004 $39,992 Closed
2014 Prospective Evaluation of California's Armed and Prohibited Persons System NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Firearms and Violence UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS CA 2014-R2-CX-0012 $1,167,909 Closed
2014 Tale of Four Cities: Improving Our Understanding of Gun Violence-Supplement FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Michigan State University MI 2013-R2-CX-0015 $249,046 Closed
2014 The Epidemiology of Crime Guns FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards The International Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc. VA 2013-R2-CX-0001 $250,000 Closed
2014 Underground Gun Markets in Chicago NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Firearms and Violence The University of Chicago IL 2014-MU-CX-0013 $459,849 Closed
2013 A Tale of Four Cities: Improving Our Understanding of Gun Violence NIJ FY 13 Firearms and Violence Michigan State University MI 2013-R2-CX-0015 $249,957 Closed
2013 Disrupting Illegal Gun Transfers NIJ FY 13 Firearms and Violence RAND Corporation CA 2013-R2-CX-0016 $399,370 Closed
2013 Measuring Success in Focused Deterrence NIJ FY 13 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Parterships TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2013-IJ-CX-0056 $298,264 Closed
2013 Reducing Youth Access to Firearms through the Health Care Setting NIJ FY 13 Firearms and Violence University of Colorado Denver CO 2013-MU-CX-0002 $1,025,560 Closed
2013 Sensor, Surveillance, and Biometrics Technologies Center of Excellence. NIJ FY 13 Office of Science and Technology Continuations ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc. WV 2010-IJ-CX-K024 $156,746 Closed
2013 The Epidemiology of Crime Guns: From Legal Sale to Use in Crime NIJ FY 13 Firearms and Violence The International Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc. VA 2013-R2-CX-0001 $250,000 Closed