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: 255
Total Amount Awarded: $134,821,892

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2024	Exploring the Intersection of Human Trafficking, Drug Trafficking, and Other Criminal Activity in the United States	NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime: Money Laundering, Firearms, and Human Trafficking	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	15PNIJ-24-GG-01904-RESS	$649,895	Open
2024	Incentivized Informants and Wrongful Convictions: Understanding the Risks and Mitigating the Effects	NIJ FY24 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System	LIFE AFTER JUSTICE	IL	15PNIJ-24-GK-03091-MUMU	$1,133,976	Open
2024	Research, Evaluation, and Analysis of Call Handling on Three-Digit Hotlines (REACH-3D)	NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation on 911, Alternative Hotlines, and Alternative Responder Models	UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	IL	15PNIJ-24-GG-01559-RESS	$935,000	Open
2024	Spatial analysis of social vulnerability and crime disparities through interpretable machine learning	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	15PNIJ-24-GG-01573-RESS	$180,000	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023	911, What's Your Emergency?: Factors Impacting Call Coding	NIJ FY23 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System	UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	IL	15PNIJ-23-GG-01367-NIJB	$500,000	Open
2023	A 28-year longitudinal study of victimization and perpetration of violence in high-risk youth: Advancing the development of preventive interventions in the community	NIJ FY23 Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research, Evaluation, and Associated Training & Technical Assistance Support	NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY	IL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04269-CVIP	$1,000,000	Open
2023	A multilevel analysis of juvenile life without parole and its reform: understanding the people, places, and politics that shape policy.	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY	IL	15PNIJ-23-GG-01952-TITL	$166,500	Open
2023	Domestic Terrorism Targeting America’s Political Elites	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	15PNIJ-23-GG-01385-DOMR	$751,254	Open
2023	Elder Abuse Survivor Equity (EASE) Study: National Longitudinal Trajectories and Translation for Practitioners and the Public	NIJ FY23 Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	15PNIJ-23-GG-02625-MUMU	$1,499,885	Open
2023	Positive Adolescent Interpersonal Relationships (PAIR): A Community-Based STRiV Study	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	15PNIJ-23-GG-01380-REVA	$1,996,357	Open
2023	Quantification of psychotropic cannabinoids in newly emerging hemp-derived products and evaluation of their stability and interconversion during storage	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY	IL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04234-RESS	$251,505	Open
2022	Applied Research in the Characterization, Identification, and Comparison of Pigmented Fiber Evidence	NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Funding to Support the Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Program	MICROTRACE LLC	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-04185-RESS	$167,469	Open
2022	DENTAGE: A multi-component subadult dental age estimation method	NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Sciences for Criminal Justice Purposes	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	15PNIJ-22-GG-04433-RESS	$567,920	Open
2022	Improving Hate Crime Reporting among LGBTQ+ Populations	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Hate Crimes	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	15PNIJ-22-GG-00998-RESS	$997,360	Open
2022	Multi-Site Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking	NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	15PNIJ-22-GG-01568-HT	$979,022	Open
2022	Research Assistantship Program (RAP)	NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Funding to Support the Research Assistantship Program (RAP), DePaul University	DEPAUL UNIVERSITY	IL	15PNIJ-22-GG-00947-RESS	$58,101	Closed
2022	Youth Defense Delivery Systems and Associated Outcomes	NIJ FY22 Research on Juvenile Justice Topics	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	15PNIJ-22-GG-03056-TITL	$508,010	Open
2021	A Process and Impact Evaluation of Illinois' Policy to Eliminate Cash Bail and Reform Pretrial Practices	NIJ Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, Fiscal Year 2021	LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-02807-RESS	$632,781	Open
2021	Applied Research in the Characterization, Identification, and Comparison of Pigmented Fiber Evidence	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	MICROTRACE LLC	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-04185-RESS	$107,541	Open
2021	Developing a Culturally and Trauma-Informed Teen Dating Violence Algorithm: A Continuation of the VIP Study	Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2021	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-02803-MUMU	$600,000	Open
2021	Evaluating the Efficacy of the SAFeR Approach to Improving Legal Responses to IPV: A Randomized Controlled Trial	Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2021	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-02800-REVA	$1,221,556	Open
2021	Evaluation of Heat Flux Profiles Through Walls in Support of Fire Model Validation	Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2021	UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES INC	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-04167-RESS	$335,000	Closed
2021	Policing the Rainbow: Sexual and Gender Minority Experiences and Perceptions of Law Enforcement	Research and Evaluation on Policing, Fiscal Year 2021	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-02715-RESS	$654,179	Past Project Period End Date
2021	Prisons as Schools for Change: Evidence from Illinois	Research and Evaluation on Promising Reentry Initiatives, Fiscal Year 2021	UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-00139-NIJB	$585,726	Open
2021	Strengthening data-driven pretrial release in New Jersey	NIJ Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, Fiscal Year 2021	UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-02806-RESS	$837,477	Open