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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 State Sort descending Award Number Amount Status
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
2016 Project SECURE: Keeping Kids Safe in San Francisco Unified School District. Comprehensive School Safety Initiative SRI INTERNATIONAL CA 2016-CK-BX-0002 $4,641,134 Closed
2007 Laying the Foundation for Theoretical Model Development in Elder Abuse NIJ FY 07 ORE Continuations The Regents of the University of California, Irvine CA 2005-IJ-CX-0048 $200,000 Closed
2019 Evaluation of Safe Horizon Family Court Program Evaluations of Services for Victims of Crime, FY 2019 RAND CORPORATION, THE CA 2019-V3-GX-0002 $496,739 Closed
2004 The Intersection of Prisons and Child Welfare: Findings from a Multi-State Collaborative Using Administrative Data Solicitation for Crime and Justice Research The Regents of The University of California CA 2004-IJ-CX-0036 $100,000 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
2010 Estimating the Unlawful Commercial Sex Economy in the United States NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on Human Trafficking The Urban Institute DC 2010-IJ-CX-1674 $499,036 Closed
2014 Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Abuse Allegations and Parental Alienation NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence The George Washington University DC 2014-MU-CX-0859 $501,791 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
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
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
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
2014 Development of a Computer Simulation Model to Predict Potential Bruising Patterns Associated with Common Childhood Falls NIJ FY 14 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Louisville Research Foundation KY 2014-DN-BX-K006 $377,187 Closed
2015 Biomechanical Investigation of the Effect of Bone Disorders on Pediatric Femur Fracture Potential NIJ FY 15 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. KY 2015-DN-BX-K018 $533,978 Closed
2017 Biomechanical Characterization of Video Recorded Short Distance Falls In Children NIJ FY17 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE KY 2017-DN-BX-0158 $599,878 Closed
2019 Differentiating Abuse from Accident in Young Children with Osteogenesis Imperfecta: Biomechanical Assessment of Fracture Risk Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE KY 2019-R2-CX-0038 $142,957 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Development of a Probability Model to Predict Head Injury Risk in Pediatric Falls Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE KY 2019-DU-BX-0029 $636,419 Closed
2008 Development of a Surrogate Bruising Detection System to Describe Bruising Patterns Associated with Common Childhood Falls NIJ FY08 Office of Research and Evaluation Congressionally Directed Awards University of Louisville Research Foundation KY 2008-DD-BX-K311 $357,739 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
2014 The prosecution of child sexual abuse: A partnership to improve outcomes NIJ FY 14 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 2014-MU-MU-0001 $498,333 Closed
2019 Understanding the Trafficking of Children for the Purpose of Labor in the United States Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, FY 2019 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MA 2019-VT-BX-0038 $664,690 Past Project Period End Date
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
2018 A Longitudinal Investigation of Trauma Exposure, Retraumatization, and Post-Traumatic Stress of Justice-Involved Adolescents Legacy OJJDP Research Grants University of Maryland MD 2016-MU-MU-0070 $74,395 Closed