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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 Sort descending Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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
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
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 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 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
2019 Expanding the Knowledge Base about Child Advocacy Centers Evaluations of Services for Victims of Crime, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA NE 2019-V3-GX-0007 $566,261 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
2013 Investigation of Post-Mortem Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Detection of Intraneural Hemorrhage NIJ FY 13 Basic Scientific Research to Support Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center NM 2013-DN-BX-K004 $498,616 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
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 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
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 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
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
2014 Factors Promoting Risk or Resilience Among Polyvictimized Youth in the Juvenile Justice System NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Violence University of Utah UT 2014-R2-CX-0020 $816,031 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
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
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
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 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
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
2014 A Supplement to Support the Thirty-Year Follow-up of the Cycle of Violence FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards Research Foundation of CUNY c/o John Jay College NY 2011-WG-BX-0013 $155,620 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
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
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