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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: Crime prevention

Number of Awards: 256
Total Amount Awarded: $216,269,692

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2017 Cocooning and Procedural Justice Dialectics: A Clustered Randomized Field Trial to Assess Crime Reduction and Citizen Perspectives Using Two Evidence-Based Programs In Prince George's County, MD NIJ FY17 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices (Beyond Crime Reduction) POLICE EXECUTIVE RESEARCH FORUM DC 2017-R2-CX-0023 $855,800 Past Project Period End Date
2017 Developing a Taxonomy To Understand and Measure Outcomes of Success in Community-Based Elder Mistreatment Interventions NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY NY 2017-VF-GX-0002 $499,982 Closed
2017 Dynamic, Graph-Based Risk Assessments for the Detection of Violent Extremist Radicalization Trajectories Using Large Scale Social and Behavioral Data NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CO 2017-ZA-CX-0002 $731,194 Closed
2017 Evaluation of the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Initiative NIJ FY17 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations YALE UNIVERSITY CT 2013-ZD-CX-0001 $1,225,000 Closed
2017 Preventing Firearm Violence: An Evaluation of Urban Blight Removal in High Risk Communities NIJ FY17 Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS CA 2017-IJ-CX-0021 $669,964 Closed
2017 Reducing Violence in Communities: An In-Depth Study of Efforts in Durham, NC and Minneapolis, MN NIJ FY17 Research on Reducing Violence in Communities THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2017-IJ-CX-0015 $999,728 Closed
2017 Taking Effective School Violence Prevention to Scale NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2017-CK-BX-0020 $6,867,878 Past Project Period End Date
2016 Applying Promising Evidence to New Settings: An Experimental Evaluation of Summer Jobs in Philadelphia New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania PA 2016-R2-CX-0049 $147,210 Closed
2016 Developing additional tools, features, and documentation to facilitate practioner adoption Office of Science and Technology Continuations Police Foundation DC 2012-IJ-CX-0039 $105,000 Closed
2016 Elder Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project:Planning Phase Elder Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project: Planning Phase THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 2016-MU-CX-K006 $399,370 Closed
2016 Evaluation of a Principal Training Program to Promote Safe and Civil Schools Comprehensive School Safety Initiative UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM MO 2016-CK-BX-0004 $4,135,418 Closed
2016 Evaluation of the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Initiative Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations YALE UNIVERSITY CT 2013-ZD-CX-0001 $1,199,996 Closed
2016 Examining the School and Community Contexts that Contribute to the Root Causes and Prevention of School Violence in Rural, Urban, and Large County School Districts in California. - Category 4 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES VA 2016-CK-BX-K001 $4,964,124 Closed
2016 Link for Schools: A system to prevent violence and its adverse impacts Comprehensive School Safety Initiative THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA IA 2016-CK-BX-0006 $3,675,128 Closed
2016 Nashville Longitudinal Study of Youth Safety and Wellbeing Comprehensive School Safety Initiative VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY TN 2016-CK-BX-K002 $4,916,705 Closed
2016 Planning a Family-Focused Approach to Prevent Elder Mistreatment Elder Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project: Planning Phase University of Southern California CA 2016-ZD-CX-K008 $400,000 Closed
2016 Post-Incarceration Partner Violence: Examining the Social Context of Victimization to Inform Victim Services and Prevention Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime Research Triangle Institute NC 2016-VF-GX-0010 $222,453 Closed
2016 Project SECURE: Keeping Kids Safe in San Francisco Unified School District. Comprehensive School Safety Initiative SRI INTERNATIONAL CA 2016-CK-BX-0002 $4,641,134 Closed
2016 Research on the Effects of an Anonymous Tip Line and Multidisciplinary Response Teams in Schools across the State of Nevada Comprehensive School Safety Initiative PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH & EVALUATION MD 2016-CK-BX-0007 $4,835,367 Closed
2016 Social Media As a Platform for Crafting Gender-Specific Interventions for the Domestic Radicalization of Women Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism: Prevention and Intervention Demonstration Programs The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia VA 2016-ZA-BX-K002 $716,065 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 Understanding the Causes of School Violence Using Open Source Data Comprehensive School Safety Initiative RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NY 2016-CK-BX-0013 $699,629 Closed
2016 Using Gatekeeper Training as a CVE Tool: Replication and Evaluation of a Gatekeeper Program in Prince George's County Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism: Prevention and Intervention Demonstration Programs Analytic Services Inc.(ANSER) VA 2016-ZA-BX-K003 $733,928 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 Board Diversity, Corporate Malfeasance and Legal Sanctions NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on White-Collar Crime and Public Corruption University of Maryland MD 2015-IJ-CX-0008 $404,978 Closed