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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: MA

Number of Awards: 289
Total Amount Awarded: $135,694,274

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2004 16x20 Inch Instant Film x-ray system National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards - Office of Science and Technology Wisner Classic Mfg Co Inc MA 2003-RD-CX-K012 $20,000 Closed
2003 16x20 X-Ray Cassette and Processor for Polaroid Instant Film National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Wisner Classic Mfg Co Inc MA 2003-RD-CX-K012 $150,000 Closed
2020 3D morphology of blood stain can provide critical information missed in standard bloodstain analysis Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MA 2020-DQ-BX-0006 $361,656 Past Project Period End Date
2006 A Bayesian Data Trawler for Urban Public Safety NIJ FY06 Modeling and Simulation Research and Development: Software for Improved Operations, Operational Modeling, Speech-to-Text Recognition, and Training Technologies Structured Decisions Corporation MA 2006-IJ-CX-K011 $350,000 Closed
2007 A Bayesian Data Trawler for Urban Public Safety National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Structured Decisions Corporation MA 2006-IJ-CX-K011 $150,000 Closed
2013 A Brief Intervention to Prevent Adolescent Dating Aggression Perpetration NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2013-VA-CX-0001 $741,630 Closed
2016 A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine NIJ FY 16 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Northeastern University MA 2016-DN-BX-0002 $47,833 Open
2017 A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine NIJ FY17 Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Continuations Northeastern University MA 2016-DN-BX-0002 $48,818 Open
2018 A mechanism-based forensic investigation into the postmortem redistribution of morphine NIJ FY18 Continuations Northeastern University MA 2016-DN-BX-0002 $49,832 Open
2006 A Multi-City Assessment of Juvenile Delinquency in the U.S.: A Continuation and Expansion of the International Self-Report Delinquency Study NIJ FY06 ORE Crime and Justice Research Northeastern University MA 2006-IJ-CX-0045 $252,698 Closed
2006 A Multi-Jurisdictional Study of Reduced Caseload and Related Supervision Strategies in Managing Offendors on Probation NIJ FY06 ORE Research & Evaluation on Community Supervision Abt Associates Inc. MA 2006-IJ-CX-0011 $999,940 Closed
2000 A National Assessment of School Resource Officer Programs CLEFS Comprehensive Wellness Program Abt Associates Inc. MA 2000-IJ-CX-K002 $699,975 Closed
2008 A National Assessment of Sex Traficking Demand Reduction Efforts NIJ FY 08 ORE Trafficking Abt Associates Inc. MA 2008-IJ-CX-0010 $358,285 Closed
2007 A Statewide Study of Stalking and Its Criminal Justice Response NIJ FY 07 ORE Justice Response to Intimate Partner Violence Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. MA 2007-WG-BX-0003 $182,738 Closed
2013 Across the Universe? A Comparative Analysis of Violent Radicalization Across Three Offender Types with Implications for Criminal Justice Training and Education NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Radicalization to Violent Extremism in the United States University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2013-ZA-BX-0002 $530,298 Closed
2015 Advancing Human Trafficking Prevalence Estimation NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Abt Associates Inc. MA 2015-MU-MU-0003 $996,870 Closed
2011 An Examination of the "Marriage Effect" on Desistance from Crime among U.S. Immigrants NIJ FY 11 W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program University of Massachusetts Boston MA 2011-IJ-CX-0002 $99,149 Closed
2011 An Executive Session on Policing and Public Safety NIJ FY 2011 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations President and Fellows of Harvard College MA 2011-IJ-CX-0025 $874,027 Closed
2010 An Exploratory Study of Juvenile Orders of Protection as a Remedy to Dating Violence NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on VAW: Sexual Violence, Teen Dating Violence and Stalking Advocates for Human Potential Inc MA 2010-MU-FX-0005 $300,009 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
2013 Applied Research and Development of a Three-dimensional Topography System for Imaging and Analysis of Striated and Impressed Tool Marks for Firearm Identification using GelSight NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Cadre Research Labs, LLC MA 2013-R2-CX-K005 $193,000 Closed
2019 Applying a Development Evaluation Approach to Address Community Safety and Health Challenges of Reintegration Programs in the USA Research and Evaluation on Terrorism Prevention, FY 2019 HARVARD COLLEGE PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MA 2019-ZA-CX-0001 $1,114,933 Closed
2020 Augmenting, Analyzing, and Archiving Criminal Trajectories in Four Birth Cohorts from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, 1995-2023 Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020 PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE MA 2020-JX-FX-0002 $674,183 Open
2014 Body fluid analysis by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic applications NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Trustees of Boston University MA 2014-DN-BX-K021 $403,397 Closed
2018 Body fluid analysis detection and identification by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for forensic scientists NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MA 2018-MU-MU-0013 $462,091 Closed