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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 Sort descending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2002 2002 Forensic Crime Laboratory Improvement Program Paul Coverdell National Forensic Sciences Improvement Act Grant - FY2002 SC Law Enforcement Division SC 2002-LP-CX-K002 $1,750,000 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
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
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 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
2006 Do best practice interviews with child abuse victims influence case outcomes? NIJ FY06 ORE Crime and Justice Research Research Foundation on behalf of Brooklyn College NY 2006-IJ-CX-0019 $176,229 Closed
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 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 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
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
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
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
2009 Evaluation of OVC FY09 Services for Domestic Minor Victims of Human Trafficking NIJ FY 09 Evaluation of OVC's FY 09 Services for Domestic Minor Victims of Human Trafficking Research Triangle Institute NC 2009-VF-GX-0206 $499,992 Closed
2009 Identifying Situational and Individual Risk Factors for Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings: Implications for Public Safety and Primary Prevention NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research Research Foundation of CUNY c/o John Jay College NY 2009-IJ-CX-0036 $283,652 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
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
2010 Impact of Legal Representatives on Child Custody Decisions among Families with History of Intimate Partner Violence NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Family Violence University of Washington WA 2010-IJ-CX-0022 $844,297 Closed
2010 Utility of Postmortem X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) in Supplanting or Supplementing Medicolegal Autopsies NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Forensic Crime Scene and Medicolegal Death Investigations University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center NM 2010-DN-BX-K205 $895,832 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
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
2011 Thirty-year Follow-up of the Cycle of Violence NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Violence and Victimization Research Foundation of CUNY c/o John Jay College NY 2011-WG-BX-0013 $311,967 Closed
2012 Development and Validation of a New Pediatric Head Injury Assessment Tool for Possible Child Abuse Cases Considering Subject-Specific Child Head Anatomy NIJ FY 12 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes The Regents of the University of Michigan MI 2012-DN-BX-K045 $549,859 Closed
2012 Investigation of the Impact of Body Temperature and Post-Mortem Interval on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of Unfixed Tissue NIJ FY 12 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center NM 2012-DN-BX-K019 $574,868 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
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