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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: Drug crime

Number of Awards: 52
Total Amount Awarded: $28,222,997

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2019 Using Social Network and Spatial Analysis to Understand and Address Fentanyl Distribution Networks in America’s Largest Port City Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime, FY 2019 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION CA 2019-R2-CX-0020 $995,490 Open
2019 Detecting Fentanyl and Major Players in Darknet Drug Markets by Analyzing Drug Networks and Developing a Threat Assessment Tool Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime, FY 2019 RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK NY 2019-R2-CX-0018 $598,637 Closed
2019 What You Can't Buy, Can't Kill You Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime, FY 2019 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM AL 2019-R2-CX-0019 $641,016 Past Project Period End Date
2019 Prevalence of Fentanyl and Its Analogues in a Court-Ordered Mandatory Drug Testing Population Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime, FY 2019 RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE NC 2019-R2-CX-0017 $239,196 Closed
2019 Third Party Policing: A Randomized Field Trial to Assess Drug Crime Reduction and Police-Hotel Partnerships in Anne Arundel County, MD Research and Evaluation on Policing, FY 2019 POLICE EXECUTIVE RESEARCH FORUM DC 2019-R2-CX-0026 $597,452 Open
2010 Raman Spectroscopy with Multi-component Searching for Complex Clandestine Laboratory Sample Analysis NIJ FY 10 Research and Development on Instrumental Analysis for Forensic Science Applications Commonwealth of Kentucky KY 2010-DN-BX-K178 $118,195 Closed
2011 Race and Drug Arrests: Specific Deterrence and Collateral Consequences NIJ FY 11 W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program University of South Florida FL 2011-IJ-CX-0004 $93,553 Closed
2011 An Examination of the "Marriage Effect" on Desistance from Crime among U.S. Immigrants NIJ FY 11 W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program University of Massachusetts Boston MA 2011-IJ-CX-0002 $99,149 Closed
2010 Creating A Better Understanding Of Cross-Jurisdictional Task Forces On The Border: An Evaluation Of Two Efforts To Target Drugs And Violence In San Diego County NIJ FY 10 ORE Recovery Act: Evaluation of Recovery Act State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program San Diego Association of Governments CA 2010-SS-B9-0001 $299,136 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
2010 Journeys to buy and sell illegal narcotics in Philadelphia drug markets NIJ FY 10 ORE Ph.D.Graduate Research Fellowship Program TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION PA 2010-IJ-CX-1675 $25,000 Closed
2010 Monitoring Drug Epidemics and the Markets that Sustain Them Using ADAM II NIJ FY 10 ORE Data Resources Program: Funding for the Analysis of Existing Data National Development and Research Institutes Inc NY 2010-IJ-CX-0011 $37,966 Closed
2012 Optimizing Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs to Support Law Enforcement Activities NIJ FY 12 Research on Illegal Prescription Drug Market Interventions University of Kentucky Research Foundation KY 2012-R2-CX-0007 $363,226 Closed
2012 Identifying High Risk Prescribers Using PDMP Data: A Tool For Law Enforcement NIJ FY 12 Research on Illegal Prescription Drug Market Interventions The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC 2012-R2-CX-0002 $249,983 Closed
2012 Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs: Policy Change, Law Enforcement Activity, and Diversion Tactics NIJ FY 12 Research on Illegal Prescription Drug Market Interventions University of Central Florida FL 2012-R2-CX-0006 $250,000 Closed
2014 Area 2: Reducing Crime for Girl in the Juvenile Justice System through Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships NIJ FY 14 Building and Enhancing Criminal Justice Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships NEW YORK UNIVERSITY NY 2014-IJ-CX-0044 $645,456 Closed
2013 Aptamer-Based, Exonuclease-Amplified, Paper Device for Point of Collection Screening of Cocaine and Methamphetamine in Oral Fluid NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Florida International University FL 2013-DN-BX-K032 $352,223 Closed
2013 Dried Blood Spot Analysis as an Emerging Technology for Application in Forensic Toxicology NIJ FY 13 Applied Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Research Triangle Institute NC 2013-DN-BX-K017 $571,987 Closed
2010 Estimating the Unlawful Commercial Sex Economy in the United States NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on Human Trafficking The Urban Institute DC 2010-IJ-CX-1674 $499,036 Closed
2014 Substance Abuse Treatment as a Mechanism to Reduce Drug Abuse and Crime NIJ FY 14 Data Resources Program 2014: Funding for Analysis of Existing Data National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. MA 2014-R2-CX-0015 $39,996 Closed
2010 It Came from the North: Estimating the Production of Synthetic Drugs in Quebec Canada NIJ FY 10 ORE Research on International Organized Crime The Regents of The University of California CA 2010-IJ-CX-0020 $367,845 Closed
2011 Evaluating and Improving Law Enforcement Cooperation in Combatting Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations NIJ FY 11 Research Solicitation on International Organized Crime (IOC) American University DC 2011-IJ-CX-0001 $453,112 Closed
2010 An Experimental Evaluation of the BJA DMI Training and Technical Assistance Initiative NIJ FY 10 ORE Evaluation of the BJA Drug Market Intervention (DMI) Training and Technical Assistance Initiative RAND Corporation CA 2010-DJ-BX-1672 $2,914,961 Closed
2011 Controlling Crime: Reducing Incarceration NIJ FY 11 Visiting Fellowship Program BOTEC Analysis Corp. MA 2011-IJ-CX-K059 $248,712 Closed
2006 A Collaborative Approach to Eliminating Street Drug Markets: A Process and Outcome Evaluation NIJ FY06 ORE Evaluation of Public Safety Interventions University of North Carolina at Greensboro NC 2006-IJ-CX-0034 $283,001 Closed