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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.
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State: IL

Number of Awards: 241
Total Amount Awarded: $125,415,643

Funded Awards
FY 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Past Project Period End Date
2021 Towards Understanding Deradicalization in the U.S.: A Formative Evaluation and Evaluability Assessment of Parents for Peace Research and Evaluation on Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2021 NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 15PNIJ-21-GG-02724-DOMR $472,168 Past Project Period End Date
2021 Twenty Years Later: National Study of Victim Compensation Program Trends, Challenges, and Successes. Research and Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime, Fiscal Year 2021 NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 15PNIJ-21-GG-00995-NONF $748,827 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Assessing Class Consistency and Common Source Using 3D Virtual Comparison Microscopy in Firearm Forensics Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 CADRE RESEARCH LABS (ILLINOIS) LLC IL 2020-DQ-BX-0028 $199,615 Past Project Period End Date
2020 Methods to Cost Crime Victimization: Statistical Modelling with Integrated and Survey Data to Comprehensively Measure Harm Research and Evaluation of Victims of Crime, Fiscal Year 2020 NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 2020-V3-GX-0078 $1,225,595 Closed
2020 SCA Follow-up Study: A Longitudinal Study of 2009 Second Chance Act Adult Demonstration Program Participants NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020 NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 2020-MU-MU-0014 $1,699,867 Open
2020 Validation of a LC-DAD-ESI/MS/MS method for the accurate measurement of THC and THCA-A among twenty cannabinoids in various products of Cannabis Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY IL 2020-DQ-BX-0021 $160,181 Closed
2019 Campus Sexual Assault Responses (CSAR): Informing Trauma-Informed Policies, Protocols, and Training Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Stalking, and Teen Dating Violence, FY 2019 NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 2019-VA-CX-K001 $999,999 Closed
2019 Delinquent and Criminal Behaviors of Parents and Their Adolescent Children: A Prospective Intergenerational Study of Children of Former Juvenile Offenders Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime, FY 2019 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY IL 2020-MU-MU-0001 $999,906 Open
2019 Development of an Interactive Database of Contemporary Material Properties for Computer Fire Modeling Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES INC IL 2019-DU-BX-0018 $583,545 Closed