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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Number of Awards: 167
Total Amount Awarded: $100,854,344

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2024	Bail, Bias and Bargaining: Investigating Racial Dynamics in Plea Negotiations across Local Court Communities	NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice: Prosecution Practice, Justice, Case Tracking, and Workforce	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	MD	15PNIJ-24-GG-01796-RESS	$699,257	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2024	Data-driven Prosecution Practices: Exploring the Implementation and Impact of Plea Tracking	NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice: Prosecution Practice, Justice, Case Tracking, and Workforce	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	15PNIJ-24-GG-01787-RESS	$769,955	Open
2024	Exploring the Nexus of Human Trafficking and Drug Trafficking in a Border County	NIJ FY24 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime: Money Laundering, Firearms, and Human Trafficking	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL	MA	15PNIJ-24-GG-01907-RESS	$649,732	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2024	Jury Deliberations of Child Witnesses with Autism Spectrum Disorder	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO	TX	15PNIJ-24-GG-01572-RESS	$180,000	Open
2024	Reducing Collateral Consequences with Records Relief: Organizational Readiness for Implementing Strategies in State Courts	NIJ FY24 Evaluating Strategies to Advance the Implementation of Evidence-Based Policies and Practices	NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS	VA	15PNIJ-24-GG-02869-NIJB	$422,100	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023	21st Century Criminal Defense Practice: An Examination of the Impact of Holistic Defense in Wayne County, Michigan	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice: Advancing Access to Justice 60 Years after Gideon	JUSTICE INNOVATION INC.	NY	15PNIJ-23-GG-02235-RESS	$829,358	Open
2023	A Statewide Mixed-methods Evaluation of Pennsylvania’s 8th Edition Sentencing Guidelines and their Impacts on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing Outcomes	NIJ FY23 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System	DREXEL UNIVERSITY	PA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01365-NIJB	$730,834	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023	Building Better Indigent Defense Systems	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice: Advancing Access to Justice 60 Years after Gideon	SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-02234-RESS	$800,000	Open
2023	Operationalizing the Individual versus Group Fairness Dichotomy for Recidivism Risk Assessment: US Legal Challenges and Technical Proposals	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	MD	15PNIJ-23-GG-01932-RESS	$166,500	Open
2023	Pretrial Policy Change and Place: Evaluating the Impacts of Maryland's Bail Reform on Crime and Pretrial Outcomes across Courts	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE	CA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01931-RESS	$55,500	Open
2023	Second looks for youth: An implementation evaluation of resentencing models in five jurisdictions	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Sentencing and Resentencing	MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY	NJ	15PNIJ-23-GG-04239-RESS	$692,889	Open
2023	The Extremism Sentencing Study: Judicial Outcomes and Recidivism Among Individuals Convicted of International and Domestic Terrorism	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization and Violent Extremism	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	MD	15PNIJ-23-GG-01384-DOMR	$762,553	Open
2022	NIJ Multisite Impact and Cost-Efficiency Evaluation of Veterans Treatment Courts	NIJ FY22 NIJ Multisite Impact and Cost-Efficiency Evaluation of Veterans Treatment Courts	AMERICAN UNIVERSITY	DC	15PNIJ-22-GK-00035-VTCX	$3,000,000	Open
2021	"Shadow Costs: The Effect of Economic and Informational Inequality on Court-Order Compliance".	W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System, Fiscal Year 2021	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE	CA	15PNIJ-21-GG-04707-NIJB	$885,090	Open
2021	A Process and Impact Evaluation of Illinois' Policy to Eliminate Cash Bail and Reform Pretrial Practices	NIJ Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, Fiscal Year 2021	LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-02807-RESS	$632,781	Open
2021	Court Decision-Making in Domestic Violence Cases: An Analysis of the Case Processing Pipeline in South Carolina	Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2021	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA	SC	15PNIJ-21-GG-02802-REVA	$357,234	Open
2021	National Juvenile Court Data Archive	National Juvenile Court Data Archive, Fiscal Year 2021	NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JUDGES	NV	15PNIJ-21-GG-03202-TITL	$2,000,000	Open
2021	Reducing Youth Incarceration for Runaway and Truancy: A National Scan of Practice and Evaluability Assessments in Three Sites	Research on Juvenile Justice Topics, Fiscal Year 2021	THE URBAN INSTITUTE	DC	15PNIJ-21-GG-03265-RESS	$705,856	Open
2021	Research on Juvenile Court Intake Practices and Reoffending	Research on Juvenile Reoffending, Fiscal Year 2021	MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY	MS	15PNIJ-21-GG-02981-TITL	$597,436	Open
2021	Strengthening data-driven pretrial release in New Jersey	NIJ Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, Fiscal Year 2021	UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	IL	15PNIJ-21-GG-02806-RESS	$837,477	Open
2019	A Law Enforcement Pathway to Treatment: A Multi-Site Evaluation of Self-Referral Deflection Programs	Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, FY 2019	THE RAND CORPORATION	CA	2019-75-CX-0011	$990,808	Closed
2019	Confidence, Latency, and Accuracy in Eyewitness Identification Made from Show-Ups: Evidence from the Lab, the Field, and Current Law Enforcement Practices	Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, FY 2019	NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE	VA	2019-75-CX-0009	$662,407	Open
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	Improving Juror Comprehension of Forensic Testimony and Its Effects on Decision-Making and Evidence Evaluation	Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice, FY 2019	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	2019-75-CX-0010	$497,208	Closed
2019	Prevalence of Fentanyl and Its Analogues in a Court-Ordered Mandatory Drug Testing Population	Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime, FY 2019	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2019-R2-CX-0017	$239,196	Closed