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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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This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Subtopic: Courts

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

Funded Awards
FY 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 Open
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 Open
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 Open
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 Open
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 Past Project Period End Date
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 Past Project Period End Date
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