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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 Status
2014 A Comparative Study of Violent Extremism and Gangs NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism University of Maryland MD 2014-ZA-BX-0002 $639,736 Closed
2011 A Multi-method, Multi-site Study of Gang Desistance NIJ FY 11 Research and Evaluation in Crime Control and Prevention: Desistance from Gangs and Gang Related Crime Curators of The University of Missouri On Behalf of The University of Missouri St. Louis MO 2011-MU-MU-0027 $501,337 Closed
2019 A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Scenarios and Solutions Gang Prevention Program Research and Evaluation on Gangs and Gang Violence, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES CA 2019-R2-CX-0014 $550,610 Past Project Period End Date
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
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
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
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
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
2013 Assessing the Transnational Criminal Capacity of MS-13 in the U.S. and El Salvador NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues Trafficking in Persons, Transnational Organized Crime and Violent Extremism American University DC 2013-R2-CX-0048 $671,615 Closed
2011 Chicago Police Predictive Policing Demonstration and Evaluation Project: Phase 2 NIJ FY 11 Predictive Policing: Phase II Chicago Police Department IL 2011-IJ-CX-K014 $1,500,000 Closed
2014 Chicago Public Schools's Connect and Redirect to Respect (CRR) Program to use social media monitoring to identify and connect youth to behavioral interventions. NIJ FY 14 Developing Knowledge About What Works to Make Schools Safe Board of Education City of Chicago IL 2014-CK-BX-0002 $2,197,178 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
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
2005 Evaluation of the Chicago Project for Violence PreventionA Proposal by Northwestern University Evaluation of OJJDP's Discretionary Funds Project Northwestern University IL 2005-MU-MU-0033 $999,662 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
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
2014 Gangs on the Street, Gangs in Prison: Their Nature, Interrelationship, Control, and Re-Entry NIJ FY 14 Research on Gangs and Gang Violence AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University AZ 2014-MU-CX-0111 $840,807 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
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
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
2018 Leaving gangs and desisting from crime using a multidisciplinary team approach: A randomized control trial evaluation of the Gang Reduction Initiative of Denver NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Gangs and Gang Violence THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CO 2018-75-CX-0028 $600,797 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
2021 Long-Term Follow-Up of the National Evaluation of Gang Resistance Education and Training Project Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime, Fiscal Year 2021 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MI 15PNIJ-21-GG-00095-TITL $1,055,202 Open
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