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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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