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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: Gangs

Number of Awards: 43
Total Amount Awarded: $25,037,433

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Sort descending Status
2013 Social Networks and Organized Crime NIJ FY 13 Graduate Research Fellowship Program University of Massachusetts Amherst MA 2013-IJ-CX-0013 $24,990 Closed
2011 The long-term consequences of gang membership NIJ FY 11 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2011-JP-FX-0101 $25,000 Closed
2014 Life Fast, Die Young: Anticipated Early Death And Adolescent Violence And Gang Involvement NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences The Research Foundation for the SUNY, University of Albany NY 2014-IJ-CX-0008 $25,869 Closed
2017 Quantifying Gang Locations: A systematic test of validity using a partial test of Messick''s Unified Perspective NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2017-IJ-CX-0014 $31,998 Closed
2011 Moving Forward on Gang Prevention: Knowledge and Application NIJ FY 2011 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations University of Southern California CA 2008-IJ-CX-0016 $37,936 Closed
2015 An examination of the link between gang involvement and victimization among youth in residential placement NIJ FY 15 Data Resources Program Institute for Intergovernmental Research FL 2015-JF-FX-0145 $40,000 Closed
2019 Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adolescent Gang Membership: Utilizing Latent Class Analysis to Understand the Relationship Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, FY 2019 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2019-R2-CX-0009 $50,000 Closed
2014 Mapping Transnational Gang Activity FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards University of San Diego CA 2012-R2-CX-0028 $79,982 Closed
2018 Untangling the Web of Violence: The Network Effects of Civil Gang Injunctions Legacy OJJDP Research Grants UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION AT CSUSB CA 2017-JF-FX-0043 $120,208 Closed
2018 Large-Scale Deep Point Process Models for Crime Forecasting NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES CA 2018-R2-CX-0013 $149,999 Closed
2006 An Evaluation of Gang Hot-Spots Policing in Chicago NIJ FY06 ORE Evaluation of Public Safety Interventions Chicago Police Department IL 2006-IJ-CX-0023 $250,000 Closed
2022 Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearm Violence SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY TX 15PNIJ-22-AG-00266-NIJB $278,976 Open
2015 Implementation Studies: Comprehensive Gang Model Evaluation: Integrating Research Into Practice NIJ FY 15 Social Science Research on Implementation, Dissemination, and Translation Suffolk University MA 2015-R2-CX-0013 $286,740 Closed
2014 Gang Affiliation and Radicalization to Violent Extremism within Somali-American Communities NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism Children''s Hospital Corporation MA 2014-ZA-BX-0001 $331,241 Closed
2012 Sex Trafficking and Gangs in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region Area NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons University of San Diego CA 2012-R2-CX-0028 $398,824 Closed
2009 An Evaluation of a Global Positioning System for Monitoring High-Risk Gang Offenders NIJ FY 09 Recovery Act: Law Enforcement Technology Research and Development DEVELOPMENT SERVICES GROUP, INC. MD 2009-SQ-B9-K018 $398,884 Closed
2008 Moving Forward on Gang Prevention: Knowledge and Application NIJ FY08 ORE Research on Crime Prevention and Control: Focus on Gangs University of Southern California CA 2008-IJ-CX-0016 $399,882 Closed
2007 Evaluating the Impact of the Project Safe Neighborhoods Anti-Gang Initiative NIJ FY 07 ORE Police and Public Safety Michigan State University MI 2007-IJ-CX-0035 $427,152 Closed
2020 Gun Wars and Community Terrorization: Investigating Longitudinal Gang Violence in New Jersey from a Networked Perspective Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation of Firearms Violence, Fiscal Year 2020 TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY TX 2020-75-CX-0009 $435,020 Closed
2014 Underground Gun Markets in Chicago NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Firearms and Violence The University of Chicago IL 2014-MU-CX-0013 $459,849 Closed
2020 Assessing the Relationship between Immigration Status, Crime, Gang Affiliation, and Victimization Research into Immigration and Crime, Fiscal Year 2020 CSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION CA 2020-R2-CX-0028 $462,165 Past Project Period End Date
2015 Gang Affiliation and Radicalization to Violent Extremism within Somali-American Communities NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Children's Hospital Corporation MA 2014-ZA-BX-0001 $463,910 Closed
2017 Disrupting the Pathways to Gang Violence for Youth of Color NIJ FY17 W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime MULTNOMAH, COUNTY OF OR 2017-MU-MU-0055 $468,740 Closed
2014 Reducing Gang Violence A Randomized Trial of Functional Family Therapy NIJ FY 14 Research on Gangs and Gang Violence University of Maryland MD 2014-R2-CX-0001 $472,906 Closed
2018 Solve Crime. Build Trust? Investigating Homicides and Shootings in Los Angeles NIJ FY18 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices JUSTICE AND SECURITY STRATEGIES, INC. MD 2018-75-CX-0003 $500,000 Closed