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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: Courts

Number of Awards: 162
Total Amount Awarded: $98,133,300

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2009 US DOJ Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program New Mexico Department of Public Safety NM 2009-DY-BX-K246 $924,648 Closed
2009 Wisconsin Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program NIJ FY 09 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance WI 2009-DN-BX-K244 $647,286 Closed
2008 2008 Post-Conviction DNA Testing Program NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Texas Office of the Governor TX 2008-DN-BX-K169 $500,000 Closed
2008 Alternative Sentencing Policies for Drug Offenders: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Kansas Senate Bill 123 NIJ Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Loyola University Chicago IL 2006-IJ-CX-4032 $235,097 Closed
2008 Arizona Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Project NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Arizona Criminal Justice Commission AZ 2008-DN-BX-K145 $1,386,699 Closed
2008 Discourses of Death: Language, Juries and "Future Danger" in Texas Death Penalty Trials NIJ FY 09 ORE Graduate Research Fellowship The Regents of the University of California CA 2009-IJ-CX-0005 $20,000 Closed
2008 Governor-mandated Post-Conviction DNA Testing of Biological Evidence in Case Files NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Virginia Department of Forensic Science VA 2008-DN-BX-K128 $4,520,295 Closed
2008 Jurors'' Judgments About Forensic Identification Evidence NIJ FY 08 ORE Social Science Research in Forensic Sciences Arizona State University AZ 2008-DN-BX-0003 $496,450 Closed
2008 Kentucky Innocence Project NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet KY 2008-DN-BX-K184 $1,164,441 Closed
2008 Post-Conviction DNA Testing NIJ FY08 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program Washington Department of Commerce WA 2008-DN-BX-K127 $250,306 Closed
2008 Reducing Courts' Failure to Appear Rate: A Procedural Justice Approach NIJ FY 08 ORE Crime and Justice Board of Regents, Univ of Nebraska, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln NE 2008-IJ-CX-0022 $197,507 Closed
2007 A Multi-site Assessment of Court-Focused Elder Abuse Initiatives NIJ FY 07 ORE Elder Abuse American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education DC 2007-IJ-CX-0107 $219,409 Closed
2007 Quantifying the Specific Deterrent Effects of DNA Databases NIJ FY 07 ORE Social Science Research & Forensic Evidence The Urban Institute DC 2007-DN-BX-0001 $150,815 Closed
2007 Reduction of False Convictions Through Improved Identification Procedures: Further Refinements for Street Practice and Public Policy NIJ FY 07 ORE Social Science Research & Forensic Evidence Augsburg College MN 2007-IJ-CX-0046 $236,577 Closed
2007 Testing the Efficacy of Judicial Monitoring: A Randomized Trial at the Rochester Domestic Violence Courts NIJ FY 07 ORE Justice Response to Intimate Partner Violence Fund for the City of New York / Center for Court Innovation NY 2007-WG-BX-0011 $335,208 Closed
2006 A National Portrait of Domestic Violence Courts NIJ FY06 ORE Justice System Response to Intimate Partner Violence Fund For The City of New York NY 2006-WG-BX-0001 $275,064 Closed
2006 Alternative Sentencing Policies for Drug Offenders: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Kansas Senate Bill 123 NIJ FY06 ORE Crime and Justice Research Vera Institute of Justice NY 2006-IJ-CX-0032 $273,897 Closed
2006 Evaluation of the processing of habeas corpus cases in US District Courts, Crime and Justice Research, National Institute of Justice. NIJ FY06 ORE Crime and Justice Research Vanderbilt University TN 2006-IJ-CX-0020 $257,747 Closed
2006 Social Science Research on the Role and Impact of Forensic Evidence on the Criminal Justice Process NIJ FY06 ORE Social Science Research & Forensic Evidence Institute for Law and Justice, Inc. VA 2006-DN-BX-0095 $600,000 Closed
2006 The Role and Impact of Forensic Evidence on the Criminal Justice Process NIJ FY06 ORE Social Science Research & Forensic Evidence Cal State LA University Auxiliary Services, Inc. CA 2006-DN-BX-0094 $600,000 Closed
2005 A Cost Evaluation of Drug Court Programs Compared to State Mandated Non-Drug Court Treatment Programs Solicitation for Crime and Justice Research, FY05 Northwest Professional Consortium Inc OR 2005-IJ-CX-0010 $284,715 Closed
2005 Investigative Strategies for the Successful Prosecution of Intimate Partner Violence Violence Against Women Research & Evaluation Full Applications University of Alaska AK 2005-WG-BX-0011 $180,042 Closed
2005 Judicial Discretion and Sentencing Outcomes - Incorporating Data from the Courtroom Solicitation for Crime and Justice Research, FY05 State of Wisconsin WI 2005-IJ-CX-0003 $160,079 Closed
2005 The Contextual Significance of Courtroom Workgroup Racial Diversity to Criminal Case Outcomes W.E.B DuBois Fellowship Program 2006 Northeastern University MA 2006-IJ-CX-0009 $75,523 Closed
2004 Alabama Sentencing Commission Prison Population Computer Simulation Model Project National Institute of Justice Congressionally Directed Awards - Office of Research and Evaluation Alabama Sentencing Commission AL 2004-DD-BX-1014 $98,948 Closed