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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.

Fiscal Year 2020 Awards

On October 15, 2020, the Office of Justice Programs transitioned to the Justice Grants System for all grants management activities. We continue to post awards related to 2020 solicitations. Some or all of the awards for the following solicitations have yet to be posted:

As part of accomplishing its mission, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for various research, development, and evaluation projects;  and fellowship programs.

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Subtopic: Law enforcement

Number of Awards: 5,051
Total Amount Awarded: $2,364,100,340

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2020 A National Assessment of Demand Reduction Efforts, Part II: New Developments in the Primary Prevention of Sex Trafficking Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2020 NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION, INC. DC 2020-75-CX-0011 $239,946 Open
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 AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships NIJ Fiscal Year 2020 Continuations American Association for the Advancement of Science DC 2020-R2-CX-0009 $288,389 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Advances in Spatial Statistical Methodology for Urban Crime Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY-UNIV PARK PA 2020-R2-CX-0033 $60,065 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Advancing the Understanding of Immigration, Crime, and Crime Reporting at the Local Level with a Synthetic Population Research into Immigration and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020 Research Triangle Institute NC 2020-R2-CX-0027 $899,954 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Adverse Impacts of Organizational Stress on Officer Health and Wellness: Causes, Correlates, and Mitigation Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in Criminal Justice System, Fiscal Year 2020 Police Foundation VA 2020-R2-CX-0005 $832,000 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Assessing the Impact of Plea Bargaining on Subsequent Violence for Firearm Offenders Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation of Firearms Violence, Fiscal Year 2020 University of Maryland MD 2020-75-CX-0004 $369,412 Awarded, but not yet accepted
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
2020 Building the Evidence Base on De-escalation Training for Law Enforcement: A Multi-Agency Randomized Control Trial Research and Evaluation on Policing, Fiscal Year 2020 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI OH 2020-R2-CX-0026 $599,255 Open
2020 Characterizing and Preventing Domestic Terrorism: A Mixed-Methods Study of Five Far-Right Terrorist Groups Research and Evaluation of Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2020 Development Services Group, Inc. MD 2020-ZA-CX-0003 $998,599 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Cyberstalking - Research and Evaluation to Enhance Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation of Technology-Facilitated Abuse for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 RAND Corporation CA 2020-R2-CX-0002 $599,368 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Developing Subadult Sex Estimation Standards Using Adult Morphological Sex Traits and an Ontogenetic Approach Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno NV 2020-R2-CX-0024 $100,000 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Disrupting Human Trafficking Networks through Mathematical Modeling: Addressing Replacement Effects and Uncertain Information Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY 2020-R2-CX-0022 $100,000 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Evaluation of Digital Evidence Processing Efficiencies in Publicly Funded Crime Laboratories Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories, Fiscal Year 2020 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2020-DQ-BX-0016 $348,052 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Examining Radicalizations Risk and Protective Factors: A Case-control Study of Violent Extremists, Non-criminal Extremists & Regular Homicide Offenders Research and Evaluation of Domestic Terrorism Prevention, Fiscal Year 2020 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 2020-ZA-CX-0001 $771,610 Open
2020 Exploring Pathways to Desistance and Adjustment in Adulthood Among Juvenile Justice-Involved Females Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON OR 2020-JX-FX-0003 $817,514 Open
2020 FileTSAR+ An Elastic Network Forensic Toolkit for Law Enforcement Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 PURDUE UNIVERSITY IN 2020-DQ-BX-0008 $400,973 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Finding the Missing and Unidentified: The Application of Predictive Modeling, Ground-Penetrating Radar, and Small Unmanned Aircraft-Mounted Infrared Imagery for the Detection of Unmarked Graves Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY TX 2020-R2-CX-0043 $150,000 Open
2020 Genetic disease to improve human identification from the skin microbiome Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020 University of North Texas Health Science Center TX 2020-R2-CX-0046 $81,058 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation of Firearms Violence, Fiscal Year 2020 TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY TX 2020-75-CX-0009 $435,020 Open
2020 Identification and Mitigation of Robust Organizational Stressors and Mediators on Correctional Officer Health and Wellness Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in Criminal Justice System, Fiscal Year 2020 NDRI-USA, Inc. NY 2020-R2-CX-0008 $644,720 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Identification of Effective Strategies to Disrupt Recruitment of Victims in Human Trafficking: Qualitative Data, Systems Modeling, Survivors and Law Enforcement Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2020 Regents of the University of Minnesota MN 2020-MU-MU-0040 $758,811 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2020 Impact of Organizational Stressors on Health and Wellness: A Longitudinal Study of Occupational Stress, Trauma Exposure, Psychological Distress, and Suicide Risk among Correction Officers Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in Criminal Justice System, Fiscal Year 2020 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MA 2020-R2-CX-0007 $996,440 Open
2020 Investigating Root Causes of School Violence: A Case Control Study of School Violent Offenders, Non-School Youth Violence Offenders, and Non-Offending Youths Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2020 Research Foundation of CUNY o/b/o John Jay College NY 2020-CK-BX-0003 $797,256 Awarded, but not yet accepted
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