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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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This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Subtopic: Crime

Number of Awards: 305
Total Amount Awarded: $199,754,667

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2018 Characterization of Personal and Condom Lubricants using DART-TOFMS and Comprehensive GC-MS NIJ FY18 Continuations University of Central Florida FL 2016-DN-BX-0004 $50,000 Closed
2018 Classification Procedure for Lubricant Stains and Samples Collected from Sexual Assaults NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2018-MU-BX-0002 $354,195 Closed
2018 Combating Human Trafficking Using Structural Information in Online Review Sites NIJ FY18 Artificial Intelligence Technology Applied Research and Development for Law Enforcement Applications GEORGIA TECH APPLIED RESEARCH CORP GA 2018-75-CX-0031 $361,069 Closed
2018 ENHANCING FOUNDATIONAL VALIDITY OF FORENSIC FINDINGS IN MEDICO-LEGAL STRANGULATION EXAMINATIONS NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Stalking, and Teen Dating Violence RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA VA 2018-VA-CX-0004 $726,344 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Evaluation of Reentry-Based Restorative Justice: A Randomized Controlled Trial NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES VA 2019-RY-BX-0002 $799,988 Open
2018 Fast Screening of Firearm Discharge Residues by Laser-based Spectrochemical Methods, Electrochemical Sensors, and Chemometrics NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 2018-DU-BX-0186 $379,394 Closed
2018 Hate Crime Investigations and Offender Profiles: A National Survey of U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE NH 2018-MU-MU-0029 $840,649 Closed
2018 Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks NIJ FY18 Continuations UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2017-R2-CX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2018 Investigative and Prosecutorial Strategies for Mitigating Pathways to Radicalization: Creation of a Federal Terrorism Court Record Repository NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Prevention and Mitigation of Domestic Pathways to Terrorism UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM AR 2018-ZA-CX-0003 $731,927 Closed
2018 Large-Scale Deep Point Process Models for Crime Forecasting NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES CA 2018-R2-CX-0013 $149,999 Closed
2018 Legal Responses to Human Trafficking:Evaluability Assessments and Future Evaluation Designs NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK NY 2018-VT-BX-0002 $428,073 Closed
2018 Multidimensional Vulnerabilities for Online Radicalization NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Prevention and Mitigation of Domestic Pathways to Terrorism UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IL 2018-ZA-CX-0001 $750,000 Closed
2018 Regulation of Synthetically Engineered Organisms as Sources of Bio-Hacking and Bio-Terrorism NIJ FY18 Continuations BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2016-R2-CX-0023 $50,000 Closed
2018 Trauma-informed interventions for justice-involved youth: A meta-analysis Legacy OJJDP Research Grants George Mason University VA 2016-MU-MU-0065 $74,998 Closed
2018 Typing Highly Degraded DNA Using Circularized Molecules and Target Enrichment NIJ FY18 Continuations University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2017-IJ-CX-0010 $43,039 Closed
2018 Using Artificial Intelligence Technologies to Expose Darknet Opioid Traffickers NIJ FY18 Artificial Intelligence Technology Applied Research and Development for Law Enforcement Applications WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 2018-75-CX-0032 $985,950 Past Project Period End Date
2018 Using Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling in Assessing the Impact of Police Signaling on Investigative and Prosecutorial Outcomes in Sexual Assault Reports NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Stalking, and Teen Dating Violence CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY OH 2018-VA-CX-0002 $714,199 Closed
2017 A Confirmatory Test for Sperm in Sexual Assault Samples using a Microfluidic-Integrated Cell Phone Imaging System NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE CA 2017-NE-BX-0004 $369,224 Closed
2017 A Point Process Model with Spatiotemporal Covariates for Predicting Crime NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Carnegie Mellon University PA 2016-R2-CX-0021 $49,548 Closed
2017 Development of Advanced Computation and Geographic Visualization Methods for Geospatial and Temporal Strategic Risk Assessment of Crime NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION CA 2016-R2-CX-0020 $50,000 Closed
2017 Devlan: Automated Acquisition of Digital Evidence from Large Networks NIJ FY17 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Grier Forensics, LLC MD 2016-IJ-CX-K002 $410,157 Closed
2017 Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 2017-VF-GX-0004 $679,988 Closed
2017 Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2017-R2-CX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2017 Identifying and Informing Strategies for Disrupting Drug Distribution Networks: An Application to Opiate Flows in Pennsylvania NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime 2017 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE PA 2017-IJ-CX-0017 $990,002 Closed
2017 Improving Seminal Fluid Detection Sensitivity in Extended Post-Coital Intervals by QQQ Mass Spectrometry NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of Denver CO 2015-R2-CX-0024 $43,719 Closed