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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: Sentencing

Number of Awards: 457
Total Amount Awarded: $295,122,942

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2013 Trends in juvenile criminal case processing and education NIJ FY 13 Data Resources Program: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data Yale University CT 2013-JF-FX-0018 $39,976 Closed
2013 Understanding Familial DNA: Policies, Procedures, and Potential Impact NIJ FY 13 Social Science Research on Forensic Science ICF Incorporated, L.L.C. VA 2013-R2-CX-0013 $462,327 Closed
2012 Applied Research and Development of a Three-dimensional Topography System for Firearm Identification using GelSight NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Cadre Research Labs, LLC MA 2012-DN-BX-K058 $200,000 Closed
2012 Assessing the Effectiveness of Four Juvenile Justice Interventions on Adult Criminal Justice and Child Welfare Outcomes NIJ FY 12 Building and Enhancing Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships Policy Research Associates Inc NY 2012-IJ-CX-0041 $342,737 Closed
2012 Effects of County and State Economic, Social, and Political Contexts on Racial/Ethnic and Gender Differences in Youth's Penetration into the Justice System NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program Michigan State University MI 2012-IJ-CX-0018 $25,000 Closed
2012 Examining Criminal Justice Responses to and Help-Seeking Patterns of Sexual Violence Survivors with Disabilities NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Sexual Violence, Stalking, and Teen Dating Violence Vera Institute of Justice NY 2012-WG-BX-0050 $445,177 Closed
2012 Improving the PDQ database to Enhance Investigative Lead Information from Automotive Parts NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Oklahoma State University OK 2012-DN-BX-K059 $439,842 Closed
2012 Level of confidence in elemental analysis by LIBS NIJ FY 12 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Central Florida FL 2012-DN-BX-K027 $399,532 Closed
2012 MD Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program State of Maryland MD 2012-DY-BX-K005 $510,324 Closed
2012 National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center's (NLECTC) Information and Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence (COE) NIJ FY 12 Office of Science and Technology Continuations RAND Corporation CA 2010-IJ-CX-K007 $1,550,000 Closed
2012 Out of home placement location and juvenile delinquency: the investigation of neighborhood impact on child welfare population''s juvenile justice involvement NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana IL 2012-IJ-CX-0027 $25,000 Closed
2012 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 12 Post Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority IL 2012-DY-BX-K004 $589,638 Closed
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
2012 Research on District Attorneys'' Pretrial Diversion Programs: A Proposal for a Comprehensive Multi-Method Study NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Justice Systems Fund for the City of New York NY 2012-IJ-CX-0036 $1,000,000 Closed
2012 Screening for Poly-Victimization in Predicting a Range of Behavioral and Justice-Related Outcomes in Justice-Referred Youths Screened at Intake NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Violence University of Connecticut Health Center CT 2012-IJ-CX-0046 $516,604 Closed
2012 The Role of Indigent Defense for Defendants with Mental Health Disorders NIJ FY 12 Social Science Research on Indigent Defense Vera Institute of Justice NY 2012-R2-CX-0009 $485,625 Closed
2012 Therapeutic Change, Length of Stay and Recidivism for Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders NIJ FY 12 Building and Enhancing Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON WA 2012-IJ-CX-0040 $220,054 Closed
2012 Waiver of Counsel in Juvenile Court NIJ FY 12 Social Science Research on Indigent Defense Georgetown University DC 2012-R2-CX-0008 $510,953 Closed
2011 Area 1: Evaluating Reentry in Iowa: Context, Treatment Provision, Individual Propensity and Recidivism NIJ FY 11 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships Iowa State University of Science and Technology IA 2011-DJ-BX-0505 $225,428 Closed
2011 Evaluation of the Honest Opportunity Probation With Enforcement Demonstration Field Experiment (HOPE DFE) NIJ FY 11 Evaluation of the Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Demonstration Field Experiment (HOPE DFE) Research Triangle Institute NC 2011-RY-BX-0003 $2,499,944 Closed
2011 EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF THE TASER ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Crime Control and Prevention: Impact of Technology on Policing AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2011-IJ-CX-0102 $408,377 Closed
2011 MacMarshal Extension NIJ FY 11 Electronic Crime and Digital Evidence Recovery Odyssey Research Associates, Inc. DBA ATC-NY NY 2009-FD-CX-K002 $275,000 Closed
2011 National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center's (NLECTC) Information and Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence (COE) NIJ FY 11 Office of Science and Technology Continuations RAND Corporation CA 2010-IJ-CX-K007 $1,299,508 Closed
2011 P2P Marshal Extension NIJ FY 11 Electronic Crime and Digital Evidence Recovery Odyssey Research Associates, Inc. DBA ATC-NY NY 2009-FD-CX-K004 $125,000 Closed
2011 Police Integrity Lost: A Study of Law Enforcement Officers Arrested NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Crime Control and Prevention: Police Integrity Bowling Green State University OH 2011-IJ-CX-0024 $261,480 Closed