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]

Number of Awards: 7,490
Total Amount Awarded: $3,977,510,433

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2020	3D morphology of blood stain can provide critical information missed in standard bloodstain analysis	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY	MA	2020-DQ-BX-0006	$361,656	Closed
2020	A Black Box Study of the Accuracy and Reproducibility of Tire Evidence Examiners' Conclusions	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	NOBLIS, INC.	VA	2020-DQ-BX-0026	$720,610	Past Project Period End Date
2020	A Multi-Methodological Approach to Estimating Ancestry and Sex in Asian Groups for Forensic Casework	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	NV	2020-R2-CX-0020	$100,000	Closed
2020	A National Assessment of Demand Reduction Efforts, Part II: New Developments in the Primary Prevention of Sex Trafficking	Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2020	NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION, INC.	DC	2020-75-CX-0011	$239,946	Closed
2020	A nationally representative examination of the prevalence, characteristics, and consequences of statutory rape in the United States	Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2020	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2020-VA-CX-0002	$203,939	Closed
2020	A Rapid, Microfluidic Transcriptomic Method for Body Fluid Identification from Forensic Samples	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	VA	2020-DQ-BX-0027	$436,934	Past Project Period End Date
2020	A Skeletal Atlas of Elder Abuse: Establishing Markers of Physical Abuse and Developing a Digital Diagnostic Tool for Education and Screening	Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals, Fiscal Year 2020	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2020-75-CX-0005	$1,035,328	Open
2020	A Two-State Examination of Varied Measurement Strategies for Juvenile Reoffending	Research on Juvenile Reoffending, Fiscal Year 2020	FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY	FL	2020-MU-MU-0039	$512,718	Closed
2020	A Virtual Anthropological Approach to the Study of Commingled Human Remains	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	2020-R2-CX-0025	$138,704	Closed
2020	AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships	NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations	AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE	DC	2020-R2-CX-0009	$288,389	Open
2020	ABCD Social Development (ABCD-SD)	NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations	UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	PA	2017-MU-CX-0044	$2,000,000	Open
2020	Access to Justice for Adolescents and Young Adults Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence: Effectiveness and Accessibility of Civil Protection Orders	Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON	WA	2020-VA-CX-0001	$1,022,215	Open
2020	Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate Assessment and Evidence Interpretation	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES	FL	2019-DU-BX-4011	$495,056	Closed
2020	Accurate THC Determinations in Seized Cannabis Samples for Forensic Laboratories	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	National Institute of Standards and Technology		DJO-NIJ-20-RO-0009	$350,000	Closed
2020	Adapted Risk-Needs-Responsivity Model to Reduce Recidivism in an Underserved Area: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Pre-Release and Post-Release Reentry Components	Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA	FL	2020-75-CX-0008	$1,218,129	Open
2020	Advances in Spatial Statistical Methodology for Urban Crime	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	PA	2020-R2-CX-0033	$60,065	Closed
2020	Advancing the Understanding of Immigration, Crime, and Crime Reporting at the Local Level with a Synthetic Population	Research into Immigration and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2020-R2-CX-0027	$899,954	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Advancing Visual Analytics and Computational Science to Combat Human Trafficking	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION	GA	2019-R2-CX-4042	$86,428	Closed
2020	Adverse Impacts of Organizational Stress on Officer Health and Wellness: Causes, Correlates, and Mitigation	Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in Criminal Justice System, Fiscal Year 2020	NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE	VA	2020-R2-CX-0005	$832,000	Open
2020	Alibi Generation: Improving innocents suspects' accuracy and examining alibi discriminability using a novel GPS paradigm	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2020-R2-CX-0019	$83,840	Closed
2020	An Affinity-Free, Centrifugal Microfluidic System for Rapid, Automated Differential Extraction	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	VA	2020-DQ-BX-0024	$466,886	Past Project Period End Date
2020	An Assessment of Probabilistic Approaches to mtDNA Mixture Interpretation	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY	PA	2020-DQ-BX-0004	$205,963	Closed
2020	An Evaluation of a Statewide Approach to the Prevention and Intervention of Violence using School Threat Assessment Teams	Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2020	WESTED	CA	2020-MU-MU-0011	$852,868	Closed
2020	An examination of musculoskeletal markers in modern populations for forensic analysis and identification purposes	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	2020-R2-CX-0042	$150,000	Closed
2020	Analysis of Small Particles Adhering to the Edges of Duct Tape as a Means to Make Associations in a Way that is Independent of Manufactured Characteristics	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	STONEY FORENSIC, INC.	VA	2020-MU-CX-0018	$871,366	Closed