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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.

This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Subtopic: Violent crime

Number of Awards: 1,468
Total Amount Awarded: $806,555,682

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2017 A Point Process Model with Spatiotemporal Covariates for Predicting Crime NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Carnegie Mellon University PA 2016-R2-CX-0021 $49,548 Closed
2017 A Randomized Evaluation of a Comprehensive, Whole-School Intervention NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2017-CK-BX-0015 $2,993,500 Closed
2017 Bioinformatic Analaysis of Big Proteomic Data: A New Forensic Tool to Identify Menstrual Blood & Body Fluid Mixtures NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes NEW YORK, CITY OF NY 2017-NE-BX-0003 $667,774 Closed
2017 Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Automated Fraction Collection for the Forensic Analysis of Sexual Assault Evidence NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC IN 2017-IJ-CX-0003 $40,780 Closed
2017 Characterization and Quantification of Microbial Degradation of Sexual Lubricants NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2016-DN-BX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2017 Characterization of personal and condom lubricants using DART-TOFMS and comprehensive-GC-MS NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of Central Florida FL 2016-DN-BX-0004 $50,000 Closed
2017 City of Miami Police FY 2017 SAFE-ITR Inventory, Tracking and Reporting Project NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) City of Miami FL 2017-AK-BX-0013 $264,263 Open
2017 Comprehension of Emergency Operations Protocols: Do Students and Staff Know What To Do During a Violent-Emergency? NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2017-CK-BX-0011 $932,662 Closed
2017 Cybersecurity and Safety Challenges in Autonomous Vehicles: Threats Identification and Countermeasures Development NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics PURDUE UNIVERSITY IN 2017-R2-CX-0001 $50,000 Closed
2017 Development and evaluation of miRNA panels for body fluid identification using capillary electrophoresis and massively parallel sequencing methods NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Sam Houston State University TX 2016-DN-BX-0001 $49,987 Open
2017 Development of next-generation fingermark lifters and on-the-spot visualization devices NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY IL 2017-DN-BX-0167 $628,327 Closed
2017 Devlan: Automated Acquisition of Digital Evidence from Large Networks NIJ FY17 Office of Science and Technology Continuations Grier Forensics, LLC MD 2016-IJ-CX-K002 $410,157 Closed
2017 Disrupting the Pathways to Gang Violence for Youth of Color NIJ FY17 W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime MULTNOMAH, COUNTY OF OR 2017-MU-MU-0055 $468,740 Closed
2017 Dynamic, Graph-Based Risk Assessments for the Detection of Violent Extremist Radicalization Trajectories Using Large Scale Social and Behavioral Data NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY CO 2017-ZA-CX-0002 $731,194 Closed
2017 Evaluation of the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Initiative NIJ FY17 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations YALE UNIVERSITY CT 2013-ZD-CX-0001 $1,225,000 Closed
2017 Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 2017-VF-GX-0004 $679,988 Closed
2017 Firearm involvement of parents and their adolescent children: A prospective intergenerational study of high-risk youth NIJ FY17 Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY IL 2017-IJ-CX-0019 $749,976 Closed
2017 Gautier Police Department SAK Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) City of Gautier MS 2017-AK-BX-0132 $21,478 Open
2017 Identification and Detection of Cosmetics Transferred during Close Personal Attacks NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE FL 2017-R2-CX-0005 $50,000 Closed
2017 Improving Seminal Fluid Detection Sensitivity in Extended Post-Coital Intervals by QQQ Mass Spectrometry NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations University of Denver CO 2015-R2-CX-0024 $43,719 Closed
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 INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES FOR ASSESSING RADICALIZATION RISK: RISK TERRAIN MODELING AND CONJUNCTIVE ANALYSIS NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM AR 2017-ZA-CX-0004 $715,996 Closed
2017 Interpersonal Conflict and Resolution: Assessing victimization and perpetration sequencing and proximal determinants NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 2017-VF-GX-0103 $452,891 Closed
2017 Interpersonal Violence and Institutional Misconduct in Jails: An Empirical Investigation of Adverse Events in the Los Angeles County Jail System NIJ FY17 New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY OR 2017-IJ-CX-0037 $184,636 Closed
2017 New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision FY 2017 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence-Inventory, Tracking and Reporting Project. NIJ FY17 Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence - Inventory, Tracking, and Reporting Program (SAFE-ITR) New York State Department of Corrections and Community Super NY 2017-AK-BX-0012 $483,666 Open