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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
2017 Increasing Safety in High Need Schools: an Evaluation of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Schools NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative CORNELL UNIVERSITY NY 2017-CK-BX-0012 $2,975,446 Closed
2017 Indicators of Sex Trafficking in Online Escort Ads NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons JUSTICE RESEARCH AND STATISTICS ASSOCIATION, INC. DC 2017-MU-CX-0005 $597,532 Closed
2017 Physiological and Psychological Responses to Critical Incidents among Correctional Officers NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health and Wellness in the Criminal Justice System UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2017-R2-CX-0032 $787,907 Closed
2017 Typing Highly Degraded DNA Using Circularized Molecules and Target Enrichment NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2017-IJ-CX-0010 $46,155 Closed
2016 A New Approach to Utilizing Evidence from Sexual Assault Kits in Texas: Benefits and Costs of a Universal Testing Statute Research and Evaluation in Support of the Recommendations of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing Police Foundation DC 2016-IJ-CX-0019 $235,794 Closed
2016 A rotational platform-driven microdevice for differential separation, purification, & amplification of sexual assault forensic samples Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Virginia Commonwealth University VA 2016-NE-BX-0002 $676,460 Closed
2016 Characterization and Classification of Sexual Assault Lubricants using Direct Analysis in Real Time at Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Central Florida FL 2016-NE-BX-0001 $324,082 Closed
2016 Development of Advanced Computational and Geographic Visualization Methods for Geospatial and Temporal Strategic Risk Assessment of Crime NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION CA 2016-R2-CX-0020 $50,000 Closed
2016 DNA from Burned Bone: The application of ancient DNA methods to forensic DNA recovery Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AZ 2016-DN-BX-0158 $657,544 Closed
2016 Estimating the Prevalence of Trafficking Among Homeless and Runaway Youth Age 14-25 in Metro Atlanta Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc. GA 2016-MU-MU-0002 $499,905 Closed
2016 Evaluating the Safe Spaces Community-Led CVE Program Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago IL 2015-ZA-BX-0003 $149,688 Closed
2016 Evaluation of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Evaluation of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Sexual Assault Kit Initiative WESTAT, INC. MD 2016-AK-BX-K020 $1,999,995 Closed
2016 Evaluation of the Peer to Peer (P2P): Challenging Extremism Initiative Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism: Prevention and Intervention Demonstration Programs President and Fellows of Harvard College/Harvard T.H. Chan MA 2016-ZA-BX-K001 $750,000 Closed
2016 Examining an Integrated Bystander and Alcohol Program for Sexual Assault Perpetration: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Ohio University OH 2016-R2-CX-0048 $150,000 Closed
2016 Examining Prison Stays in Michigan Data Resources Program 2016: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data Central Michigan University MI 2016-R2-CX-0036 $40,000 Closed
2016 Gang Affiliation and Radicalization to Violent Extremism within Somali-American Communities Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Children''s Hospital Corporation MA 2014-ZA-BX-0001 $376,904 Closed
2016 Improving Seminal Fluid Detection Sensitivity in Extended Post-Coital Intervals by QQQ Mass Spectrometry Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of Denver CO 2015-R2-CX-0024 $49,045 Closed
2016 Point process modeling with spatiotemporal covariates for predicting crime NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Carnegie Mellon University PA 2016-R2-CX-0021 $49,548 Closed
2016 Rapid Extraction of Sperm from Sexual Assault Kits Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Applied Research Associates, Inc. NM 2016-DN-BX-0161 $209,408 Closed
2016 Regulation of Synthetically Engineered Organisms as Sources of Bio-Hacking and Bio-Terrorism NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2016-R2-CX-0023 $50,000 Closed
2016 Typing Highly Degraded DNA Using Circularized Molecules and Target Enrichment Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2016-DN-BX-0154 $682,474 Closed
2015 Automation of Differential Extraction with Sperm Quantitation usingMicrofluidic-Integrated Shadow Imaging System for Forensic Applications NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University CA 2015-DN-BX-K037 $614,499 Closed
2015 Continuation Funding for 2014-R2-CX-0005 NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2014-R2-CX-0005 $481,374 Closed
2015 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe: Implementation and Evaluation of Tools for Life in Jackson Public School District in MI NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2015-CK-BX-0005 $4,988,217 Closed
2015 Evaluating the Efficiency of the Use of the Qiagen® QIAsymphony® with High Throughput Y-screening as an Alternative to Conventional Serology NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Marshall University Research Corporation WV 2015-R2-CX-K039 $154,577 Closed