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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
2016 Characterization of personal and condom lubricants using DART-TOFMS and comprehensive-GC-MS NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics University of Central Florida FL 2016-DN-BX-0004 $50,000 Closed
2016 Children Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Criminal Trials: Assessing Defense Attacks on Credibility and Identifying Effective Prosecution Methods New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2016-R2-CX-0050 $149,857 Closed
2016 Continuation of Dating it Safe: A Longitudinal Study of Teen Dating Violence Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston TX 2012-WG-BX-0005 $117,891 Closed
2016 Development and Evaluation of miRNA Panels for Body Fluid Identification Using Capillary Electrophoresis and Massively Parallel Sequencing Methods NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Sam Houston State University TX 2016-DN-BX-0001 $47,186 Open
2016 Evaluation of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Evaluation of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Sexual Assault Kit Initiative WESTAT, INC. MD 2016-AK-BX-K020 $1,999,995 Closed
2016 Examining an Integrated Bystander and Alcohol Program for Sexual Assault Perpetration: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Ohio University OH 2016-R2-CX-0048 $150,000 Closed
2016 FY16 Visiting Fellows Program: Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women Visiting Fellows Program (original) University of Alaska Anchorage AK 2016-R2-CX-K002 $236,958 Closed
2016 Improving Seminal Fluid Detection Sensitivity in Extended Post-Coital Intervals by QQQ Mass Spectrometry Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of Denver CO 2015-R2-CX-0024 $49,045 Closed
2016 Montana Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking and Reporting Program Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Montana Department of Justice MT 2016-DN-BX-K013 $284,500 Open
2016 Nevada SAFE-ITR SAK Tracking Project Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Nevada Office of the Attorney General NV 2016-DN-BX-K011 $523,268 Open
2016 Non-fatal Intimate Partner Violence Against LGB Individuals: Exploring Victims' Use of Formal and Informal Services Through Analysis of Existing Data Sources Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime American University DC 2016-V3-GX-0008 $134,520 Closed
2016 Oregon's FY 2016 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking and Reporting Program Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Oregon State Police OR 2016-DN-BX-K012 $1,040,188 Open
2016 Rapid Extraction of Sperm from Sexual Assault Kits Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Applied Research Associates, Inc. NM 2016-DN-BX-0161 $209,408 Closed
2016 Rutgers Violence Against Women Consortium Violence Against Women Research Consortium RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY NJ 2016-MU-CX-K011 $4,999,982 Closed
2016 State of Georgia Sexual Assault Kit Tracking and Reporting Project Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Criminal Justice Coordinating Council GA 2016-DN-BX-K014 $1,487,656 Open
2016 Typing Highly Degraded DNA Using Circularized Molecules and Target Enrichment Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2016-DN-BX-0154 $682,474 Closed
2016 Understanding the Health Consequences of Sexual Victimization: Assessing the Impact of Social and Economic Factors NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences University of Maryland, Baltimore MD 2016-R2-CX-0016 $32,000 Closed
2015 An automated dielectrophoretic-based single cell separation technique to improve laboratory efficiency, mixture deconvolution and combat sample inhibition NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Syracuse University NY 2015-NE-BX-K002 $155,189 Closed
2015 An examination of the link between gang involvement and victimization among youth in residential placement NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program Institute for Intergovernmental Research FL 2015-JF-FX-0145 $40,000 Closed
2015 Automation of Differential Extraction with Sperm Quantitation usingMicrofluidic-Integrated Shadow Imaging System for Forensic Applications NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University CA 2015-DN-BX-K037 $614,499 Closed
2015 Community-level influences on the sentencing of convicted sex offenders NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2015-R2-CX-0039 $39,997 Closed
2015 Cross-Jurisdictional Comparison of Sexual Assault Kit Backlogs and their Criminal Justice Consequences NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program Baylor College of Medicine TX 2015-R2-CX-0040 $39,999 Closed
2015 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe: Implementation and Evaluation of Tools for Life in Jackson Public School District in MI NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2015-CK-BX-0005 $4,988,217 Closed
2015 Development and Validation of a Screening Protocol to Identify Elder Abuse in United States Emergency Departments NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL NC 2015-IJ-CX-0022 $968,933 Closed
2015 Evaluating the Efficiency of the Use of the Qiagen® QIAsymphony® with High Throughput Y-screening as an Alternative to Conventional Serology NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Marshall University Research Corporation WV 2015-R2-CX-K039 $154,577 Closed