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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: Investigations

Number of Awards: 315
Total Amount Awarded: $139,905,300

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2010 "Bones in Boxes": Unidentified Human Remains Project NIJ FY 10 Using DNA Technology to Identify the Missing Charleston County SC 2010-DN-BX-K129 $62,176 Closed
2008 "Identifying and Investigating Cold Case Crimes in Jackson County" NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Jackson County Prosecutor''s Office MO 2008-DN-BX-K374 $399,880 Closed
2005 "Solving Cold Cases with DNA" Program Solving Cold Cases with DNA San Diego County CA 2005-DN-BX-K034 $472,554 Closed
2009 "UTAP: A Cold Case Continuum for DNA Testing for Small Rural Agencies" NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Utah Attorney General''s Office UT 2009-DN-BX-K203 $343,760 Closed
2008 2008 Solving Cold Cases Through DNA Grant NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Orlando FL 2008-DN-BX-K310 $98,838 Closed
2008 2008 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Grant - Collaborative Effort with District Attorney's Office, Local Riverside DOJ Laboratory, Private DNA Analysis Laboratory to Solve Cold Cases NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA CITY OF RIVERSIDE CA 2008-DN-BX-K209 $500,000 Closed
2009 2009 Solving Cold Cases With DNA NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Los Angeles CA 2009-DN-BX-K007 $1,128,519 Closed
2009 2009 Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF''S DEPARTMENT CA 2009-DN-BX-K006 $350,000 Closed
2009 2009 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Grant NIJ FY 09 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Orlando FL 2009-DN-BX-K005 $115,296 Closed
2010 2010 Cold Case Squad NIJ FY 10 Solving Cold Cases with DNA King County Sheriff''s Office WA 2010-DN-BX-K002 $544,147 Closed
2010 2010 Solving Cold Cases With DNA NIJ FY 10 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Los Angeles CA 2010-DN-BX-K013 $1,130,868 Closed
2012 2012 Denver Cold Case Project NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City and County of Denver CO 2012-DN-BX-K007 $499,818 Closed
2012 2012 Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Virginia State Police VA 2012-DN-BX-K002 $466,900 Closed
2012 2012 Solving Cold Cases With DNA NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Los Angeles CA 2012-DN-BX-K010 $500,000 Closed
2014 2014 Denver Cold Case Project NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City and County of Denver CO 2014-DN-BX-K073 $125,000 Closed
2014 2014 Solving Cold Cases with DNA NIJ FY 14 Solving Cold Cases with DNA City of Orlando FL 2014-DN-BX-K078 $81,446 Closed
2012 A Chicago Police Department initiative to resolve cold case homicides through comprehensive case reviews and use of current DNA technologies. NIJ FY 12 Solving Cold Cases with DNA Chicago, City of IL 2012-DN-BX-K004 $499,565 Closed
2005 A multi-jurisdictional task force comprised of every local law enforcement agency in Ventura County will coordinate the research and review of at least 50 cold homicide cases for the presence of DNA e Solving Cold Cases with DNA County of Ventura CA 2005-DN-BX-K003 $188,264 Closed
2010 A National Survey of Eyewitness Identification Processes in Law Enforcement Agencies NIJ FY 10 ORE Research on Eyewitness Identification Procedures Police Executive Research Forum DC 2010-IJ-CX-0032 $323,966 Closed
2019 Advancing Visual Analytics and Computational Science to Combat Human Trafficking Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019 Georgia Tech Research Corporation GA 2019-R2-CX-0042 $86,428 Closed
2008 Alameda County (California) Collaborating with the National Institute of Justice to Perform the Necessary Investigative Research to Identify Cold Cases That Can Be Solved with DNA NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA County of Alameda, California CA 2008-DN-BX-K203 $449,622 Closed
2005 Alameda County Collaborating with the National Institute of Justice to Perform the Necessary Investigative Research to Identify Cold Cases That Can be Solved with DNA Solving Cold Cases with DNA County of Alameda, California CA 2005-DN-BX-K007 $430,434 Closed
2018 An Evaluation of Victim Centered, Trauma Informed Interview Training for Sexual Assault Investigators using Standardized Patient Actors: A Randomized Controlled Trial NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Stalking, and Teen Dating Violence UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE KY 2018-VA-CX-0003 $335,131 Closed
2013 An innovative response to an intractable problem: Using village public safety officers to enhance the criminal justice response to violence committed against Indian women in Alaska's tribal community NIJ FY 13 Evaluating the Effectiveness of State, Local, and Tribal Responses to Violence Committed Against Indian Women Living in Tribal Communities University of Alaska Anchorage AK 2013-VW-CX-0001 $294,317 Closed
2015 An Investigation into the genetic basis of human facial morphology and its prediction from DNA, using a globally distributed panel of individuals from the US and Europe. NIJ FY 15 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Trustees of Indiana University IN 2015-R2-CX-0023 $37,788 Closed