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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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Topic: Law enforcement,
Subtopic: Law enforcement

Number of Awards: 2,458
Total Amount Awarded: $1,529,806,436

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2013 Social Networks and Organized Crime NIJ FY 13 Graduate Research Fellowship Program University of Massachusetts Amherst MA 2013-IJ-CX-0013 $24,990 Closed
2013 Statistical Analysis and Forensics Determination of Designer Drugs via Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS) NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Research Foundation for The SUNY, University at Albany NY 2013-DN-BX-K041 $284,562 Closed
2013 Testing a Geospatial Predictive Policing Strategy: Application of ArcGIS 3D Analyst Tools for Forecasting Commission of Residential Burglaries NIJ FY 13 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Washington State University WA 2013-IJ-CX-0044 $28,132 Closed
2013 The Epidemiology of Crime Guns: From Legal Sale to Use in Crime NIJ FY 13 Firearms and Violence The International Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc. VA 2013-R2-CX-0001 $250,000 Closed
2013 Transnational Crimes among Somali-Americans: Convergences of Radicalization and Trafficking NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues Trafficking in Persons, Transnational Organized Crime and Violent Extremism Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago IL 2013-ZA-BX-0008 $793,783 Closed
2013 Understanding Familial DNA: Policies, Procedures, and Potential Impact NIJ FY 13 Social Science Research on Forensic Science ICF Incorporated, L.L.C. VA 2013-R2-CX-0013 $462,327 Closed
2013 Understanding Law Enforcement Perspectives on Sex Offender Registration and Notification NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Justice Systems: Investigator-Initiated University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2013-IJ-CX-0028 $233,307 Closed
2013 Using Behavioral Patterns to Link Serial Rape Offenses:A Multidimensional Approach NIJ FY 13 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Research Foundation of CUNY c/o John Jay College NY 2013-IJ-CX-0009 $18,000 Closed
2013 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing, Fiscal Year 2013 NIJ FY 13 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2013-DN-BX-K012 $800,000 Closed
2013 Victimization and Fear of Crime among Arab Americans in Metro-Detroit NIJ FY 13 W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship on Race, Gender, Culture and Crime FY 2013 Wayne State University MI 2013-IJ-CX-0020 $99,788 Closed
2012 2012 Denver Cold Case Project NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City and County of Denver CO 2012-DN-BX-K007 $499,818 Closed
2012 2012 Solving Cold Cases With DNA NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Los Angeles CA 2012-DN-BX-K010 $500,000 Closed
2012 2012 Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Virginia State Police VA 2012-DN-BX-K002 $466,900 Closed
2012 A Chicago Police Department initiative to resolve cold case homicides through comprehensive case reviews and use of current DNA technologies. NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Chicago, City of IL 2012-DN-BX-K004 $499,565 Closed
2012 Addressing Under-Reporting of Minor Victim Sex Trafficking in Illinois NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Research Triangle Insitute NC 2012-IJ-CX-0025 $370,000 Closed
2012 Applied Research and Development of a Three-dimensional Topography System for Firearm Identification using GelSight NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Cadre Research Labs, LLC MA 2012-DN-BX-K058 $200,000 Closed
2012 Baltimore Police Department Trace SEM Project NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Baltimore MD 2012-CD-BX-0069 $175,000 Closed
2012 Boston Police Department Forensic Group Improvement Project NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Boston MA 2012-CD-BX-0073 $63,546 Closed
2012 Brass Board Forensic Crime Scene Survey Camera NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC CA 2012-DN-BX-K046 $409,774 Closed
2012 Causes of Injuries & Deaths Associated with Law Enforcement Officer Line-of-Duty Vehicular Accidents NIJ FY 12 Office of Science and Technology Continuations RAND Corporation CA 2011-IJ-CX-K013 $171,000 Closed
2012 Characterization of Stab/Slash Wounds NIJ FY 12 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Wayne State University MI 2011-DE-BX-K002 $214,616 Closed
2012 Characterization of Weapons Used in Stab/Slash Attacks NIJ FY 12 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Wayne State University MI 2011-DE-BX-K003 $176,814 Closed
2012 Chicago Police Department's Predictive Policing Demonstration and Evaluation Program: Phase 2 Continuation NIJ FY 12 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Chicago Police Department IL 2011-IJ-CX-K014 $1,000,000 Closed
2012 City of Portland, Oregon Police Bureau Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Program NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Portland OR 2012-CD-BX-0031 $49,675 Closed
2012 City of Salem Police Department Crime Lab Improvements NIJ FY 12 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program City of Salem OR 2012-CD-BX-0023 $78,300 Closed