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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: Courts

Number of Awards: 162
Total Amount Awarded: $98,133,300

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient Sort descending State Award Number Amount Status
2010 Examining the Evidence: The Science of Forensic Science NIJ FY 10 Forensic Science Training Development and Delivery Program Twin Cities Public Television MN 2010-DN-BX-K238 $1,053,299 Closed
2005 Investigative Strategies for the Successful Prosecution of Intimate Partner Violence Violence Against Women Research & Evaluation Full Applications University of Alaska AK 2005-WG-BX-0011 $180,042 Closed
2003 Anchorage Wellness Court Evaluation CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL DRUG COURT EVALUATION University of Alaska Anchorage AK 2003-DD-BX-1015 $633,880 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 Young Adult Court: A New Approach to Justice NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE CA 2018-R2-CX-K001 $783,834 Open
2021 "Shadow Costs: The Effect of Economic and Informational Inequality on Court-Order Compliance". W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE CA 15PNIJ-21-GG-04707-NIJB $885,090 Open
2023 Pretrial Policy Change and Place: Evaluating the Impacts of Maryland's Bail Reform on Crime and Pretrial Outcomes across Courts NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE CA 15PNIJ-23-GG-01931-RESS $55,500 Open
2017 Can Jury Instructions Have an Impact on Trial Outcomes NIJ FY17 W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE CA 2017-IJ-CX-0044 $489,085 Closed
2021 Strengthening data-driven pretrial release in New Jersey NIJ Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO IL 15PNIJ-21-GG-02806-RESS $837,477 Open
2010 The Long-Term Effects of Civil Legal Services on Battered Women NIJ FY 10 ORE Crime and Justice Research and Evaluation: Investigator Initiated University of Iowa IA 2010-WG-BX-0009 $823,822 Closed
2014 Long Term Effects of Drug Court Participation Evidence from a 15 Year Follow up of a Randomized Controlled Trial NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences University of Maryland MD 2014-IJ-CX-0009 $31,982 Closed
2010 The Missing Link: Examining Prosecutorial Decision Making Across Federal District Courts NIJ FY 10 ORE Data Resources Program: Funding for the Analysis of Existing Data University of Maryland MD 2010-IJ-CX-0012 $35,000 Closed
2012 The Effect of Collateral Consequence Laws on State Rates of Returns to Prison NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program University of Maryland MD 2012-IJ-CX-0006 $25,000 Closed
2023 The Extremism Sentencing Study: Judicial Outcomes and Recidivism Among Individuals Convicted of International and Domestic Terrorism NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK MD 15PNIJ-23-GG-01384-DOMR $762,553 Open
2023 Operationalizing the Individual versus Group Fairness Dichotomy for Recidivism Risk Assessment: US Legal Challenges and Technical Proposals NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK MD 15PNIJ-23-GG-01932-RESS $166,500 Open
2012 Decision-Making in Sexual Assault Cases: Replication Research on Sexual Violence Case Attrition in the U.S. NIJ FY 12 Replication Research on Sexual Violence Case Attrition University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2012-IJ-CX-0052 $1,197,686 Closed
2015 Community-level influences on the sentencing of convicted sex offenders NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2015-R2-CX-0039 $39,997 Closed
2011 The Impact of Forensic Evidence on Arrest and Prosecution NIJ FY 11 Social Science Research in Forensic Science University of New Haven CT 2011-DN-BX-0003 $174,668 Closed
2021 Court Decision-Making in Domestic Violence Cases: An Analysis of the Case Processing Pipeline in South Carolina Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2021 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SC 15PNIJ-21-GG-02802-REVA $357,234 Open
2012 Race, Juvenile Court Processing and Case Outcomes: Fluctuation or Stability? NIJ FY 12 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data University of South Florida FL 2012-IJ-CX-0051 $38,167 Closed
2011 Race and Drug Arrests: Specific Deterrence and Collateral Consequences NIJ FY 11 W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program University of South Florida FL 2011-IJ-CX-0004 $93,553 Closed
2018 Understanding Prosecutorial Discretion in Florida Criminal Courts NIJ FY18 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Crime UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FL 2018-R2-CX-0021 $248,077 Past Project Period End Date
2010 Impact of Legal Representatives on Child Custody Decisions among Families with History of Intimate Partner Violence NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Family Violence University of Washington WA 2010-IJ-CX-0022 $844,297 Closed
2018 Trends in Domestic Violence Protective Order Administration: Potential Impacts on Victim Safety and Due Process NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Stalking, and Teen Dating Violence UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON WA 2018-VA-CX-0001 $1,027,123 Open
2006 Evaluation of the processing of habeas corpus cases in US District Courts, Crime and Justice Research, National Institute of Justice. NIJ FY06 ORE Crime and Justice Research Vanderbilt University TN 2006-IJ-CX-0020 $257,747 Closed