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

Funded Awards
FY Title Sort descending Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2011 Responding to Fiscal Challenges in State Correctional Systems: A National Study of Prison Closings and Alternative Strategies NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Justice Systems RAND Corporation CA 2011-IJ-CX-0011 $999,952 Closed
2011 Reviewing cases in Minnesota where DNA is dispositive of innocence. NIJ FY 11 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program JUDICARY COURTS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA MN 2011-DY-BX-K002 $658,348 Closed
2012 SADO''s Postconviction DNA Testing Project NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program State Appellate Defender Office MI 2012-MU-BX-K012 $429,087 Closed
2023 Second looks for youth: An implementation evaluation of resentencing models in five jurisdictions NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Sentencing and Resentencing MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY NJ 15PNIJ-23-GG-04239-RESS $692,889 Open
2018 Setting Up for Success: Improving Defendant's Court Appearance Rates with Behaviorally-Informed Pretrial Notification Protocols NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS VA 2018-R2-CX-0029 $249,071 Open
2010 Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Implementation and Collaborative Process: What Works Best for the Criminal Justice System? NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on VAW: Sexual Violence, Teen Dating Violence and Stalking Michigan State University MI 2010-WG-BX-0010 $278,713 Closed
2006 Social Science Research on the Role and Impact of Forensic Evidence on the Criminal Justice Process NIJ FY06 ORE Social Science Research & Forensic Evidence Institute for Law and Justice, Inc. VA 2006-DN-BX-0095 $600,000 Closed
2014 State Laws on Child Custody Related to Judges' and Custody Evaluators' Recommendations in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence NIJ FY 14 Data Resources Program 2014: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data Regents of the University of Michigan MI 2014-IJ-CX-0018 $37,532 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
2007 Testing the Efficacy of Judicial Monitoring: A Randomized Trial at the Rochester Domestic Violence Courts NIJ FY 07 ORE Justice Response to Intimate Partner Violence Fund for the City of New York / Center for Court Innovation NY 2007-WG-BX-0011 $335,208 Closed
2018 Testing the Efficacy of Pretrial Diversion: A Randomized Trial at the San Francisco Neighborhood Courts NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2018-R2-CX-0028 $750,000 Closed
2001 Testing the Impact of Court Monitoring and Batterer Intervention Program Process Evaluations in Four Tribal Drug Courts Fund For The City of New York NY 2001-WT-BX-0506 $294,129 Closed
2009 The Anatomy of Discretion: An Analysis of Prosecutorial Decision-Making in County Prosecutors' Offices NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research Vera Institute of Justice Inc NY 2009-IJ-CX-0040 $393,564 Closed
2009 The Connecticut Post Conviction DNA testing program NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program STATE OF CONNECTICUT CT 2009-DY-BX-K243 $1,486,134 Closed
2011 The Connecticut Postconviction DNA Testing Program 2011 NIJ FY 11 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Public Defender Services CT 2011-DY-BX-K007 $1,392,176 Closed
2012 The Contextual Determinants and Implications of Back-end Sentencing NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program Regents of the University of Michigan MI 2012-IJ-CX-0044 $25,000 Closed
2005 The Contextual Significance of Courtroom Workgroup Racial Diversity to Criminal Case Outcomes W.E.B DuBois Fellowship Program 2006 Northeastern University MA 2006-IJ-CX-0009 $75,523 Closed
2004 The Courtroom of the 21st Century National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards - Office of Science and Technology The College of William And Mary In Virginia VA 2004-DD-BX-K011 $494,739 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
2009 The Effects of Defense Counsel on the Outcomes of Homicide
and Death Penalty Prosecutions
NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research RAND Corporation CA 2009-IJ-CX-0013 $149,898 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
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
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
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
2017 The Neuroscience of Evidentiary Rules: The Case of the Present Sense Impression NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE TN 2017-IJ-CX-0007 $49,898 Closed