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: 150
Total Amount Awarded: $63,793,900

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2024	Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Microscopic Characteristics of Skeletal Trauma	NIJ FY24 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA	AZ	15PNIJ-24-GG-03844-MUMU	$691,362	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2024	Lead by Example: The Effects of Police Supervisors on Officer Behavior	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA	AZ	15PNIJ-24-GG-01582-RESS	$39,499	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023	Thriving, Not Surviving: Refocusing Juvenile Justice Assessments and Strategies	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	15PNIJ-23-GG-01951-TITL	$89,763	Open
2022	Assessing the Effectiveness of Interventions Designed to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	NIJ FY22 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System: A Study of Existing Evidence and Public Policy Implications	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	15PNIJ-22-GG-01426-NIJB	$796,008	Open
2021	A Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of the Impact of Arizona’s Ban on Peremptory Challenges: A Focus on Racial Bias in Jury Selection and Case Outcomes	W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System, Fiscal Year 2021	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	15PNIJ-21-GG-04710-NIJB	$636,038	Open
2020	A nationally representative examination of the prevalence, characteristics, and consequences of statutory rape in the United States	Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2020	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2020-VA-CX-0002	$203,939	Past Project Period End Date
2020	A Skeletal Atlas of Elder Abuse: Establishing Markers of Physical Abuse and Developing a Digital Diagnostic Tool for Education and Screening	Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals, Fiscal Year 2020	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2020-75-CX-0005	$1,035,328	Open
2020	Determining Fracture Timing from Histological Characteristics of Cortical Bone	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020	MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA	AZ	2020-75-CX-0015	$462,240	Closed
2020	Isotope Analysis of Modern Remains in Forensics: Optimizing Sample Preparation Methods for Accurate and Reliable Carbonate and Collagen Isotope Analysis	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2020-R2-CX-0034	$150,000	Open
2019	Optimizing the Analysis of DNA From Burned Bone Using Ancient DNA Techniques	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2019-DU-BX-0044	$783,744	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Stable Isotope Analysis as a Geospatial Tool for Identification: Intra-Individual Isotopic Variability	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2018-DU-BX-0217	$570,624	Past Project Period End Date
2018	Testing new methods for degraded DNA recovery and next-generation sequencing	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2018-DU-BX-0218	$669,898	Closed
2016	Altering Administrative Segregation for Inmates and Staff: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Effects of Living and Working in Restrictive Housing	Research and Evaluation on Institutional Corrections	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2016-R2-CX-0115	$631,559	Closed
2016	Children Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Criminal Trials: Assessing Defense Attacks on Credibility and Identifying Effective Prosecution Methods	New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University	AZ	2016-R2-CX-0050	$149,857	Closed
2016	DNA from Burned Bone: The application of ancient DNA methods to forensic DNA recovery	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2016-DN-BX-0158	$657,544	Closed
2015	2015 Arizona Paul Coverdell Grant Program	NIJ FY 15 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Arizona Criminal Justice Commission	AZ	2015-CD-BX-0008	$158,365	Closed
2015	FY 2015 City of Phoenix Police Department DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program.	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	City of Phoenix Police Department	AZ	2015-DN-BX-0122	$451,749	Closed
2015	FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - Arizona Department of Public Safety	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	Arizona Department of Public Safety	AZ	2015-DN-BX-0067	$723,514	Closed
2015	FY 2015 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program - City of Mesa Forensic Services	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	City of Mesa an Arizona Municipal Corporation	AZ	2015-DN-BX-0036	$133,782	Closed
2015	FY15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	City of Tucson	AZ	2015-DN-BX-0070	$246,564	Closed
2015	Investigating the Impacts of Institutional and Contextual Factors on Protection Order Decision-Making	NIJ FY 15 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships	AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University	AZ	2015-IJ-CX-0013	$369,928	Open
2014	2014 Arizona Paul Coverdell Grant	NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Arizona Criminal Justice Commission	AZ	2014-CD-BX-0015	$148,405	Closed
2014	Arizona DNA Advocacy Project	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University	AZ	2014-DY-BX-K001	$934,003	Closed
2014	City of Phoenix Police Department''s Solving Cold Cases with DNA 2014 grant program.	NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	City of Phoenix Police Department	AZ	2014-DN-BX-K070	$269,987	Closed
2014	City of Phoenix Police Department, FY 2014 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Program	NIJ FY 14 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program	Phoenix Police Department	AZ	2014-CD-BX-0068	$174,996	Closed