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: 466
Total Amount Awarded: $273,089,880

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2023	A Mixed Methods Evaluation of the Impacts and Implementation of Florida's Risk Protection Order (RPO) Law, 2018-2023	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Firearms Violence and Mass Shootings	FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-02406-BSCI	$700,224	Open
2023	A Mixed-Method Examination of the Effectiveness of Money Bail and other Pretrial Release Options	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Jails	FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-02233-NIJB	$560,195	Open
2023	A Randomized Controlled Trial of the HeartMath Resilience Program: Exploring the Impact of Stress on Jail Staff Performance and Retention	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Jails	FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-02231-NIJB	$498,491	Open
2023	Development of a Stable Matrix-Matched Standard for Molecular and Elemental Analysis of Hair in Forensic Toxicology	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-01945-RESS	$110,966	Open
2023	FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence		FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS	$300,000	Open
2023	Life-course and Intergenerational Effects of Crime and Criminal Justice Involvement: Identifying Risks and the Search for Resilience	NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime	FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-AG-01491-MUMU	$1,372,994	Open
2023	Optimizing Analytical Parameters for Detection of Chronic and Single Dose Drug Exposure in Forensic Hair Analysis	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04208-MUMU	$431,892	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023	Rapid screening and identification of fentanyl in drug mixtures using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04230-RESS	$190,662	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023	The sexual assault microbiome: Detecting contact when minimal male DNA is present.	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04228-DNAX	$409,612	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023	What Works to Reduce Violent Gun Crime in Focused Deterrence Initiatives? Estimating the Effect of Services and Enforcement in Facilitating Desistence Among Prolific Violent Offenders	NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Research and Evaluation on Violent Crime and Crime and Firearm Violence in the Community	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA	FL	15PNIJ-23-GK-00844-RESS	$1,392,265	Open
2022	Enhanced Ignitable Liquid and Substrate Database Functionality for Improved Casework and Research.	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04421-SLFO	$289,496	Open
2022	FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence		FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS	$300,000	Open
2022	Improve craniometric ancestry estimation with deep learning methods	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04431-RESS	$306,271	Open
2022	Improving Strategies for Investigating & Prosecuting Hate Crimes: A National Yet Local Approach	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-01000-RESS	$994,787	Open
2022	Non-contact detection of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids: Towards a generalized approach to the detection of dangerous drug clases	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04418-RESS	$642,632	Open
2021	A MIXED-METHODS EXAMINATION OF THE UNIQUE ROOT CAUSES OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE	Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2021	FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GG-02979-MUMU	$578,722	Open
2021	Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Implications of Removing Police from Schools for Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System	Research on the Impact of Public Policy on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System, Fiscal Year 2021	FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GG-02818-RESS	$49,837	Closed
2021	Comparative Evaluation of Low- and High-Resolution MS Approaches for Screening and Confirmation of New Psychoactive Substances in Human Specimen Matrices	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GG-04173-COAP	$437,665	Open
2021	FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence	Forensic Technology Center of Excellence, Fiscal Year 2021	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GK-02191-RESS	$300,000	Open
2021	Pre-grouping of commingled human skeletal remains by elemental analysis	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES	FL	15PNIJ-21-GG-04151-SLFO	$240,594	Open
2021	Scalable Multiphone Targeted Data Extraction System	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-21-GG-04155-RESS	$600,984	Open
2021	Transfer, Persistence and DNA Source Attribution of Trace Biological Material in Digital Penetration Assault Cases	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES	FL	15PNIJ-21-GG-04147-RESS	$550,440	Open
2020	A Two-State Examination of Varied Measurement Strategies for Juvenile Reoffending	Research on Juvenile Reoffending, Fiscal Year 2020	FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY	FL	2020-MU-MU-0039	$512,718	Open
2020	Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate Assessment and Evidence Interpretation	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEES	FL	2019-DU-BX-4011	$495,056	Past Project Period End Date
2020	Adapted Risk-Needs-Responsivity Model to Reduce Recidivism in an Underserved Area: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Pre-Release and Post-Release Reentry Components	Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives, Fiscal Year 2020	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA	FL	2020-75-CX-0008	$1,218,129	Open