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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
2012 Identifying Effective Counter-Trafficking Programs and Practices in the U.S.: Legislation, Law Enforcement Processes, and Demand Reduction Strategies That Work NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Colorado College CO 2012-MU-CX-0027 $339,001 Closed
2012 Identifying Risky Places for Street Robberies NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program Rutgers, the State University NJ 2012-IJ-CX-0005 $25,000 Closed
2012 Lone Wolf Terrorism in America: Using Knowledge of Radicalization Pathways to Forge Prevention Strategies NIJ FY 12 Research on Domestic Radicalization Indiana State University IN 2012-ZA-BX-0001 $247,263 Closed
2012 Official Crime Rates of Participants in Trials of the Nurse-Family Partnership NIJ FY 12 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data University of Colorado Denver CO 2012-IJ-CX-0010 $40,000 Closed
2012 Situational Factors and the Victim-Offender Overlap NIJ FY 12 Research on the Link Between Victimization and Offending The Pennsylvania State University PA 2012-R2-CX-0012 $426,181 Closed
2012 State-Mandated Criminal Background Employment Screening: A High Stakes Window into the Desistance Process NIJ FY 12 Desistance From Crime Over the Life Course The Research Foundation of SUNY NY 2012-MU-MU-0048 $706,943 Closed
2012 Support for the Committee on Law and Justice NIJ FY 12 Office of Research and Evaluation ORE Continuations National Academy of Sciences DC 2009-IJ-CX-0034 $275,000 Closed
2012 Translating ''Near Repeat'' Theory into a Geospatial Police Strategy: A Randomized Experiment testing a Theoretically-Informed Strategy for Preventing Residential Burglary NIJ FY 12 Testing Geospatial Police Strategies and Exploring their Relationship to Criminological Theories Police Foundation DC 2012-IJ-CX-0039 $397,344 Closed
2011 A Multi-method, Multi-site Study of Gang Desistance NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Crime Control and Prevention: Desistance from Gangs and Gang Related Crime Curators of The University of Missouri On Behalf of The University of Missouri St. Louis MO 2011-MU-MU-0027 $501,337 Closed
2011 An Examination of the "Marriage Effect" on Desistance from Crime among U.S. Immigrants University of Massachusetts Boston MA 2011-IJ-CX-0002 $99,149 Closed
2011 Controlling Crime: Reducing Incarceration NIJ FY 11 Visiting Fellowship Program BOTEC Analysis Corp. MA 2011-IJ-CX-K059 $248,712 Closed
2011 Integrating Prevention and Intervention: A School Health Center Program to Promote Healthy Adolescent Relationships NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Violence and Victimization Public Health Institute CA 2011-MU-MU-0023 $807,490 Closed
2011 Learning From Error In American Criminal Justice NIJ FY 11 Visiting Fellowship Program James M Doyle MA 2011-IJ-CX-K060 $191,239 Closed
2011 Moving Forward on Gang Prevention: Knowledge and Application NIJ FY 2011 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations University of Southern California CA 2008-IJ-CX-0016 $37,936 Closed
2011 Thirty-year Follow-up of the Cycle of Violence NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Violence and Victimization Research Foundation of CUNY c/o John Jay College NY 2011-WG-BX-0013 $311,967 Closed
2010 A Dating Violence Prevention Program for Each Grade in Middle School: A Longitudinal Multi-Level Experiment. NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on VAW: Sexual Violence, Teen Dating Violence and Stalking National Opinion Research Center IL 2010-MU-MU-0008 $807,256 Closed
2010 A Follow-up Evaluation of Hawaii's HOPE Probation NIJ FY 10 ORE Crime and Justice Research and Evaluation: Investigator Initiated Pepperdine University CA 2010-IJ-CX-0016 $191,707 Closed
2010 An Experimental Evaluation of the BJA DMI Training and Technical Assistance Initiative NIJ FY 10 ORE Evaluation of the BJA Drug Market Intervention (DMI) Training and Technical Assistance Initiative RAND Corporation CA 2010-DJ-BX-1672 $2,914,961 Closed
2010 Detection of Crime, Resource Deployment,and Predictors of Success: A Proposed Multi-Level Analysis of CCTV inNewark, NJ. NIJ FY 10 ORE Research on Policing Rutgers, the State University NJ 2010-IJ-CX-0026 $188,620 Closed
2010 Foreclosures and Crime: A Space-Time Analysis NIJ FY 10 ORE Research on Foreclosures and Crime The Urban Institute DC 2010-IJ-CX-0029 $254,994 Closed
2010 Predictive modeling combining short and long-term crime risk potential NIJ FY 10 Geospatial Technology TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2010-DE-BX-K004 $239,805 Closed
2010 The Impact of Foreclosures on Neighborhood Crime NIJ FY 10 ORE Research on Foreclosures and Crime New York University NY 2010-IJ-CX-0028 $407,707 Closed
2009 Assessing the Link between Foreclosure and Crime Rates: a Multilevel Analysis of Neighborhoods across Cities and Metropolitan Areas NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research Florida State University FL 2009-IJ-CX-0020 $362,206 Closed
2009 Can Video Surveillance Reduce Crime? Quantifying the Size and Goegraphic Extent of CCTV's Impact NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2009-IJ-CX-0012 $486,161 Closed
2009 Exploiting 911 Call-For-Service Records to Support Crime Prevention and Police Deployment NIJ FY 09 Recovery Act: Law Enforcement Technology Research and Development Research Triangle Institute NC 2009-SQ-B9-K010 $617,500 Closed