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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: 246
Total Amount Awarded: $205,708,893

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Sort descending Status
2014 Environmental Scan of Family Justice Centers in the United States NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence Abt Associates Inc. MA 2014-ZD-CX-0013 $299,971 Closed
2018 Mass Shooter Database NIJ FY18 Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MN 2018-75-CX-0023 $300,403 Closed
2009 Maryland Postconviction DNA Analysis NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Governors Office of Crime Control And Prevention MD 2009-DN-BX-K241 $307,000 Closed
2011 Thirty-year Follow-up of the Cycle of Violence NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Violence and Victimization Research Foundation of CUNY c/o John Jay College NY 2011-WG-BX-0013 $311,967 Closed
2008 Economic Security ' The Internet Highway NIJ FY08 Office of Science and Technology Congressionally Directed Awards Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation, Inc KY 2008-DD-BX-K307 $313,021 Closed
2015 Maryland's Forensic Science Program NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program Governors Office of Crime Control And Prevention MD 2015-CD-BX-0054 $314,430 Closed
2023 Research & Evaluation of Boston's Community Violence Intervention & Prevention Initiative NIJ FY23 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research, Evaluation, and Associated Training & Technical Assistance Support SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY MA 15PNIJ-23-GG-04265-CVIP $328,407 Open
2014 Gang Affiliation and Radicalization to Violent Extremism within Somali-American Communities NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism Children''s Hospital Corporation MA 2014-ZA-BX-0001 $331,241 Closed
2012 Identifying Effective Counter-Trafficking Programs and Practices in the U.S.: Legislation, Law Enforcement Processes, and Demand Reduction Strategies That Work NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Colorado College CO 2012-MU-CX-0027 $339,001 Closed
2005 Electronic Crime Partnership Initiative NIJ/Office of Science & Technology Continuations Robert J. O'Leary NJ 2005-DE-BX-K005 $350,000 Closed
2007 Broken Windows Policing: A Randomized Experimental Evaluation of its Impacts on Disorder, Fear and Crime in Three Cities NIJ FY 07 ORE Police and Public Safety University of Maryland MD 2007-IJ-CX-0047 $350,431 Closed
2008 A National Assessment of Sex Traficking Demand Reduction Efforts NIJ FY 08 ORE Trafficking Abt Associates Inc. MA 2008-IJ-CX-0010 $358,285 Closed
2009 Assessing the Link between Foreclosure and Crime Rates: a Multilevel Analysis of Neighborhoods across Cities and Metropolitan Areas NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research Florida State University FL 2009-IJ-CX-0020 $362,206 Closed
2005 Evaluations of Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention FY 2003 Discretionary Funds Projects Evaluation of OJJDP's Discretionary Funds Project Abt Associates Inc. MA 2005-DD-BX-0037 $367,960 Closed
2014 Development of a brief elder abuse and neglect screener for Emergency Medical Services: Detection of Elder abuse Through Emergency Care Technicians (DETECT) NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2014-MU-CX-0102 $369,039 Closed
2015 Investigating the Impacts of Institutional and Contextual Factors on Protection Order Decision-Making NIJ FY 15 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2015-IJ-CX-0013 $369,928 Open
2013 Offender Decision-Making: Decision Trees and Displacement NIJ FY 13 Research on Offender Decision-Making Texas State University-San Marcos TX 2013-R2-CX-0003 $377,528 Closed
2013 Elder Financial Exploitation Victimization: Indentifying Unique Risk Profiles and Factors to Enhance Detection, Prevention and Intervention NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuls and Residents of Residential Care Facilities The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston TX 2013-IJ-CX-0050 $387,736 Closed
2015 Reading Intervention, Academic and Behavioral Outcomes for Adolescents: A Community Agency and University Partnership Project NIJ FY 15 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships Ball State University IN 2015-IJ-CX-0011 $388,478 Closed
2012 Translating ''Near Repeat'' Theory into a Geospatial Police Strategy: A Randomized Experiment testing a Theoretically-Informed Strategy for Preventing Residential Burglary NIJ FY 12 Testing Geospatial Police Strategies and Exploring their Relationship to Criminological Theories Police Foundation DC 2012-IJ-CX-0039 $397,344 Closed
2013 Disrupting Illegal Gun Transfers NIJ FY 13 Firearms and Violence RAND Corporation CA 2013-R2-CX-0016 $399,370 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
2008 Moving Forward on Gang Prevention: Knowledge and Application NIJ FY08 ORE Research on Crime Prevention and Control: Focus on Gangs University of Southern California CA 2008-IJ-CX-0016 $399,882 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
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