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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: Pretrial

Number of Awards: 34
Total Amount Awarded: $16,319,477

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2023 A Mixed-Method Examination of the Effectiveness of Money Bail and other Pretrial Release Options NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Jails FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FL 15PNIJ-23-GG-02233-NIJB $560,195 Awarded, but not yet accepted
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 Awarded, but not yet accepted
2022 Assessing the Effectiveness of Interventions Designed to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis NIJ FY22 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System: A Study of Existing Evidence and Public Policy Implications ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AZ 15PNIJ-22-GG-01426-NIJB $796,008 Open
2022 Evaluation of the Bronx-Osborne Gun Avoidance Program (BOGAP) NIJ FY22 Evaluation of OJP Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Projects RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NY 15PNIJ-22-GK-03017-CVIP $785,819 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 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
2020 Assessing the Impact of Plea Bargaining on Subsequent Violence for Firearm Offenders Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation of Firearms Violence, Fiscal Year 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK MD 2020-75-CX-0004 $369,412 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 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Fast On-site Screening of Seized Drugs by Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Tools: Identification of Fentanyl and Novel Psychoactive Substances Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes, FY 2019 WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION WV 2019-DU-BX-0030 $267,438 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Risk and Rehabilitation: Supporting the Work of Probation Officers in the Community Reentry of Extremist Offenders Research and Evaluation on Terrorism Prevention, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK MD 2019-ZA-CX-0003 $715,752 Open
2018 Balancing Accuracy and Timeliness: The Stages of Criminal Prosecution in Cook County, IL NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Social and Behavioral Sciences The University of Chicago IL 2018-R2-CX-0001 $32,000 Closed
2018 Improving the Accuracy and Fairness of Pretrial Release Decisions: A Multi-Site Study of Risk Assessments Implemented in Four Counties NIJ FY18 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Crime TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN 2018-R2-CX-0023 $77,768 Closed
2018 Informing The Utility of GPS Monitoring for Pretrial Probationary Supervision: An Examination of Reoffending and Collateral Consequences NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Social and Behavioral Sciences UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MA 2018-R2-CX-0004 $31,989 Closed
2018 Setting Up for Success: Improving Defendant's Court Appearance Rates with Behaviorally-Informed Pretrial Notification Protocols NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS VA 2018-R2-CX-0029 $249,071 Open
2018 Testing the Efficacy of Pretrial Diversion: A Randomized Trial at the San Francisco Neighborhood Courts NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice THE RAND CORPORATION CA 2018-R2-CX-0028 $750,000 Open
2017 Assessing the Impact of Pre-Adjudication Assessment Approaches on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Oregon NIJ FY17 W.E.B. DuBois Program of Research on Race and Crime Portland State University OR 2017-IJ-CX-0116 $360,620 Closed
2015 WMU-Cooley Law School Innocence Project: Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent in Michigan NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University MI 2015-DY-BX-K008 $418,099 Closed
2014 National Study of Collateral Consequences for Criminal Convictions FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education DC 2009-IJ-CX-0102 $131,360 Closed
2013 Evaluating the Impact of Probation and Parole Home Visits NIJ FY 13 The Impact of Probation/Parole Officer Home Visits on Offender Outcomes Abt Associates Inc. MA 2013-IJ-CX-0103 $817,496 Closed
2012 Examining the Effectiveness of Indigent Defense Team Services: A Multisite Evaluation of Holistic Defense in Practice NIJ FY 12 Social Science Research on Indigent Defense National Center for State Courts VA 2012-R2-CX-0011 $628,000 Closed
2012 Research on District Attorneys'' Pretrial Diversion Programs: A Proposal for a Comprehensive Multi-Method Study NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Justice Systems Fund for the City of New York NY 2012-IJ-CX-0036 $1,000,000 Closed
2011 Evaluation of the Honest Opportunity Probation With Enforcement Demonstration Field Experiment (HOPE DFE) NIJ FY 11 Evaluation of the Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement Demonstration Field Experiment (HOPE DFE) Research Triangle Institute NC 2011-RY-BX-0003 $2,499,944 Closed
2011 Improving the Production and Use of Forensic Science NIJ FY 11 Social Science Research in Forensic Science RAND Corporation CA 2011-DN-BX-0004 $496,006 Closed
2011 The Impact of Forensic Evidence on Arrest and Prosecution NIJ FY 11 Social Science Research in Forensic Science University of New Haven CT 2011-DN-BX-0003 $174,668 Closed