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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: 240
Total Amount Awarded: $191,404,357

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2014 Space-time study of youth and school violence NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE PA 2014-CK-BX-0008 $3,082,625 Closed
2014 Student Threat Assessment as a Safe and Supportive Prevention Strategy NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative The Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia VA 2014-CK-BX-0004 $2,497,529 Closed
2014 Testing and Evaluating Body Worn Video Technology in the Los Angeles Police Department NIJ FY 14 Optimizing the Use of Video Technology to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes Los Angeles Police Foundation CA 2014-R2-CX-0101 $1,061,300 Closed
2014 Testing Integrative Models to Improve School Safety: Positive Behavior Interventions Support and the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe Chesterfield County School District SC 2014-CK-BX-0012 $2,460,220 Open
2014 Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Probationer Decision Making: A Social Cognitive Model NIJ FY 14 Research on Offender Decision Making and Desistance from Crime Board of Regents, Univ of Nebraska, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2014-MU-CX-0006 $641,614 Closed
2013 A Brief Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Dating Aggression Perpetration NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2013-VA-CX-0001 $741,630 Closed
2013 A Tale of Four Cities: Improving Our Understanding of Gun Violence NIJ FY 13 Firearms and Violence Michigan State University MI 2013-R2-CX-0015 $249,957 Closed
2013 Adaptive Expert System that Learns to Detect and Track Patterns of Crime in Internet Advertisements NIJ FY 13 Applied Technology Research and Development for Criminal Justice Purposes Carnegie Mellon University PA 2013-IJ-CX-K007 $245,382 Closed
2013 An innovative response to an intractable problem: Using village public safety officers to enhance the criminal justice response to violence committed against Indian women in Alaska's tribal community NIJ FY 13 Evaluating the Effectiveness of State, Local, and Tribal Responses to Violence Committed Against Indian Women Living in Tribal Communities University of Alaska Anchorage AK 2013-VW-CX-0001 $294,317 Closed
2013 Decision Making Among Adult Offenders and Non Offenders NIJ FY 13 Research on Offender Decision-Making University of Maryland MD 2013-R2-CX-0005 $492,897 Closed
2013 Disrupting Illegal Gun Transfers NIJ FY 13 Firearms and Violence RAND Corporation CA 2013-R2-CX-0016 $399,370 Closed
2013 Elder Financial Exploitation Victimization: Indentifying Unique Risk Profiles and Factors to Enhance Detection, Prevention and Intervention NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuls and Residents of Residential Care Facilities The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston TX 2013-IJ-CX-0050 $387,736 Closed
2013 Evaluation of the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Initiative NIJ FY 13 Evaluation of the Office on Violence Against Women's Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstrative Initiative YALE UNIVERSITY CT 2013-ZD-CX-0001 $1,899,856 Closed
2013 Identification of Risk and Preventive Factors for Elder Financial Exploitation NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuls and Residents of Residential Care Facilities Scripps College CA 2013-IJ-CX-0026 $136,290 Closed
2013 Learning Models for Predictive Behavioral Intent and Activity Analysis in Wide Area Video Surveillance NIJ FY 13 Office of Science and Technology Continuations University of Houston TX 2009-MU-MU-K004 $215,356 Closed
2013 Offender Decision-Making: Decision Trees and Displacement NIJ FY 13 Research on Offender Decision-Making Texas State University-San Marcos TX 2013-R2-CX-0003 $377,528 Closed
2013 Person or Place? A Contextual, Event-History Analysis of Homicide Victimization Risk NIJ FY 13 Research on Victimization University of Arkansas at Little Rock AR 2013-R2-CX-0007 $161,551 Closed
2013 Predicting Intimate Partner Violence for At-Risk Young Adults and Their Romantic Partners. NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence Oregon Social Learning Center OR 2013-VA-CX-0007 $406,257 Closed
2013 Reducing Youth Access to Firearms through the Health Care Setting NIJ FY 13 Firearms and Violence University of Colorado Denver CO 2013-MU-CX-0002 $1,025,560 Closed
2013 Research on Offender Decision-Making Utilizing Geo-Narratives NIJ FY 13 Research on Offender Decision-Making Kent State University OH 2013-R2-CX-0004 $472,456 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 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
2012 Analyzing Crime Patterns and Trends in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area: Documenting the Value of Cross-Agency and Cross-Jurisdictional Data Integration NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Metropolitan Crime Urban Institute DC 2012-R2-CX-0001 $689,507 Closed
2012 Crime in Metropolitan America: Patterns and Trends across the SouthernCalifornia Landscape NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Metropolitan Crime The Regents of the University of California CA 2012-R2-CX-0010 $560,620 Closed
2012 Desistance From Crime Over the Life Course NIJ FY 12 Desistance From Crime Over the Life Course Research Triangle Institute NC 2012-R2-CX-0047 $998,221 Closed