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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 Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 Coaching teachers in detection and intervention related to bullying NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative The Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia VA 2015-CK-BX-0008 $999,952 Closed
2015 Developing Empirically-Driven Public Corruption Prevention Strategies NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on White-Collar Crime and Public Corruption Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2015-IJ-CX-0007 $412,108 Closed
2015 Evaluating Gunshot Detection Technology (GDT) to Aid in the Reduction of Firearms Violence NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence Reduction Urban Institute DC 2015-R2-CX-K147 $622,432 Closed
2015 Evaluating the Safe Spaces Community-Led CVE Program NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago IL 2015-ZA-BX-0003 $936,571 Closed
2015 Evaluating the Use and Impact of Video Analytics to Enhance Law Enforcement Surveillance Systems NIJ FY 15 Optimizing the Use of Video Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes Urban Institute DC 2015-R2-CX-K002 $1,199,947 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
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
2015 Optimizing Video Analytics in a Correction Setting, Phase I NIJ FY 15 Optimizing the Use of Video Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 2015-R2-CX-K001 $599,742 Closed
2015 Partner Violence Prevention for Middle School Boys: A Dyadic Web-Based Intervention NIJ FY 15 Non-solicited Applications Northeastern University MA 2014-MU-CX-4002 $791,846 Closed
2015 Preventing Hydrolytic and Oxidative Damage to Biological Evidence with Antioxidants and Chelators NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes BODE CELLMARK FORENSICS, INC. VA 2015-R2-CX-K037 $292,331 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
2015 School Climate Enhancement and Bullying Prevention in Southern Illinois NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University IL 2015-CK-BX-0011 $786,409 Closed
2015 Sex Trafficking of Minors: The Impact of Legislative Reform and Judicial Decision Making in Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Communities NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons University of Kentucky Research Foundation KY 2015-MU-MU-0009 $570,150 Closed
2015 Studying the Impact of Video Analytics for Pre, Live and Post Event Analysis on Outcomes of Criminal Justice NIJ FY 15 Optimizing the Use of Video Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes University of Central Florida FL 2015-R2-CX-K025 $1,299,551 Closed
2015 Suicide Prevention and Intervention Strategies by Law Enforcement Agencies: Utilization, Characteristics and Costs NIJ FY 15 Research into the Use of Suicide Prevention and Intervention Strategies by Law Enforcement Agencies RAND Corporation CA 2015-IJ-CX-K004 $499,106 Closed
2015 Supplement to the Evaluation of the Office on Violence Against Women's Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstration Initiative to provide funding to support three comparison sites. NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Yale University CT 2013-ZD-CX-0001 $1,199,975 Open
2015 The Prevalence and Nature of Intra- and Inter-group Violence In an Era of Social and Demographic Change NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program University of Arkansas AR 2015-R2-CX-0046 $39,895 Closed
2015 UMSL Comprehensive School Safety Initiative NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SYSTEM MO 2015-CK-BX-0021 $1,603,690 Closed
2015 Understanding the Impact of School Safety on the High School Transition Experience: From Etiology to Prevention NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Michigan State University MI 2015-CK-BX-0003 $849,281 Closed
2014 Adaptation and Evaluation of Video Game to Reduce Sexual Violence on Campus NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence University of New Hampshire NH 2014-VA-CX-0012 $579,301 Closed
2014 Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying and its Impact on
Youth across the Lifecourse: A Consensus Study 		FY 14 NIJ Non-solicited Applications National Academy of Sciences DC 2014-MU-MU-0011 $125,000 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
2014 Effective School Staff Interactions with Students and Police: A Training Model NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative Connecticut Office of Policy and Management CT 2014-CK-BX-0003 $566,104 Closed
2014 Empirical Assessment of Domestic Disengagement and Deradicalization (EAD3) NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism University of Maryland MD 2014-ZA-BX-0003 $620,545 Open
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