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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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Subtopic: Child abuse

Number of Awards: 64
Total Amount Awarded: $35,346,919

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient Sort descending State Award Number Amount Status
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
2016 Children Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Criminal Trials: Assessing Defense Attacks on Credibility and Identifying Effective Prosecution Methods New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2016-R2-CX-0050 $149,857 Closed
2012 Out of home placement location and juvenile delinquency: the investigation of neighborhood impact on child welfare population''s juvenile justice involvement NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana IL 2012-IJ-CX-0027 $25,000 Closed
2018 Maltreatment and Delinquency Associations across Development: Assessing Difference Among Historically Understudied Groups and Potential Protective Factors Legacy OJJDP Research Grants Child Trends Incorporated MD 2016-MU-MU-0064 $75,000 Closed
2014 Advancing Molecular Diagnostics in Sudden Unexplained Deaths NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2014-DN-BX-K001 $540,178 Closed
2011 Investigating Unexplained Deaths through Molecular Autopsies NIJ FY 11 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2011-DN-BX-K535 $696,879 Closed
2015 Enhancing Molecular Autopsies through High Throughout Function Assays and Family Studies of Cardiac Arrhythmogenic Variants in Sudden Unexplained Infant Deaths NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes City of New York, Office of Chief Medical Examiner NY 2015-DN-BX-K017 $712,168 Closed
2018 An Ecological Model of Risk and Protection for Delinquency and Juvenile Justice Involvement Among Maltreated Youth: A Longitudinal Study Legacy OJJDP Research Grants COLORADO SEMINARY CO 2017-JF-FX-0050 $124,652 Closed
2016 Impact of Victim Offender Dialogue on Victims of Serious Crimes: A Longitudinal Cohort-Control Study Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime Colorado Seminary, owns & operates the University of Denver CO 2016-VF-GX-0011 $653,159 Closed
2015 Improving Seminal Fluid Detection Sensitivity in Extended Post-Coital Intervals by QQQ Mass Spectrometry NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Colorado Seminary, owns & operates the University of Denver CO 2015-R2-CX-0024 $49,799 Closed
2018 Evaluation of Safe Harbor Laws and Their Impact on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Legacy OJJDP Research Grants DEVELOPMENT SERVICES GROUP, INC. MD 2014-JF-FX-0002 $499,977 Closed
2012 The Interpretation of Patterned Injuries in Medicolegal Death Investigation NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes East Carolina University NC 2012-DN-BX-K053 $377,480 Closed
2017 Implementation of epigenetics into forensic science: Development of a PCR based multiplex for the simultaneous analysis of age and body fluid identification NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FL 2017-NE-BX-0001 $368,512 Closed
2005 The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in New York City: A Population Assesment and Participatory Project Evaluation Evaluation of OJJDP's Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Fund For The City of New York NY 2005-LX-FX-0001 $500,000 Closed
2018 Trauma-informed interventions for justice-involved youth: A meta-analysis Legacy OJJDP Research Grants George Mason University VA 2016-MU-MU-0065 $74,998 Closed
2016 Analysis of Alternative Light in the Detection and Visibility of Cutaneous Bruises Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY VA 2016-DN-BX-0147 $449,437 Closed
2005 Victims No Longer: Research on Child Survivors of Trafficking for Sexual and Labor Exploitation Research on Trafficking in Human Beings - FY 2005 Georgetown University DC 2005-IJ-CX-0051 $175,496 Closed
2006 Process Evaluation of OJJDP''s CSEC Program in Atlanta NIJ FY06 ORE Evaluation of OJJDP Child Sexual Exploitation Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc. GA 2006-JE-FX-0006 $451,864 Closed
2007 A Population-Based Assessment of Elder Mistreatment in Non-Institutionalized Adults NIJ FY 07 ORE Elder Abuse Medical University of South Carolina SC 2007-WG-BX-0009 $700,780 Closed
2011 Pediatric Fracture Printing: Creating a Science of Statistical Fracture Signature Analysis NIJ FY 11 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Michigan State University MI 2011-DN-BX-K540 $681,147 Closed
2007 A Forensic Pathology Tool to Predict Pediatric Skull Fracture Patterns National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Michigan State University MI 2007-DN-BX-K196 $499,824 Closed
2020 Potential Postmortem Microbial Biomarkers of Infant Death Investigation Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, Fiscal Year 2020 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 2020-75-CX-0012 $530,242 Open
2006 Long-Term Consequences of Delinquency: Child Maltreatment & Crime in Early Adulthood NIJ FY06 ORE Crime and Justice Research New York Office of Children and Family Services NY 2006-IJ-CX-0014 $290,386 Closed
2006 A Randomized Trial of Healthy Families New York (HFNY): Does it Prevent Child Maltreatment? NIJ FY06 ORE Evaluation of Violence Prevention Programs New York State Office of Children & Family Services NY 2006-MU-MU-0002 $648,056 Closed
2018 Solving Cases of Sudden Unexpected Natural Death in the Young through Comprehensive Postmortem Genetic Testing NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes NEW YORK, CITY OF NY 2018-DU-BX-0204 $450,243 Closed