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: 54
Total Amount Awarded: $24,053,898

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2024	Defining the Properties of Osseointegrated and Ingrowth Bone Around Orthopedic Medical Devices and Their Effect on Fracture Risk in Elderly Populations: A Forensic Anthropological Perspective	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY	TX	15PNIJ-24-GG-01583-RESS	$180,000	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2023	Elder Abuse Survivor Equity (EASE) Study: National Longitudinal Trajectories and Translation for Practitioners and the Public	NIJ FY23 Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Financial Exploitation of Older Adults	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	15PNIJ-23-GG-02625-MUMU	$1,499,885	Open
2021	Fatal and Non-Fatal Intimate Partner and Family Violence Against Older Women: An Exploration of Age and Police Response to Inform Research, Policy and Practice	Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2021	AMERICAN UNIVERSITY	DC	15PNIJ-21-GG-02801-REVA	$195,135	Open
2020	A Skeletal Atlas of Elder Abuse: Establishing Markers of Physical Abuse and Developing a Digital Diagnostic Tool for Education and Screening	Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals, Fiscal Year 2020	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	AZ	2020-75-CX-0005	$1,035,328	Open
2020	Evaluability Assessment of the Weinberg Center for Elder Justice's Elder Abuse Shelter Services	Research and Evaluation of Victims of Crime, Fiscal Year 2020	THE RAND CORPORATION	CA	2020-V3-GX-0077	$302,950	Closed
2020	Pathways to Safety: An Examination of Federal and State-Level Barriers and Facilitators to Elder Abuse Reporting and Response	Research on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals, Fiscal Year 2020	EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC.	MA	2020-75-CX-0003	$433,368	Closed
2020	Piloting a Comprehensive Caregiver Intervention: A Pathway to Preventing Elder Mistreatment	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	CA	2020-75-CX-0001	$479,392	Closed
2019	Financial Exploitation Intervention Team Evaluability Assessment	Evaluations of Services for Victims of Crime, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS	IL	2019-V3-GX-0005	$995,926	Closed
2019	Mass Marketing Elder Fraud Intervention	Research and Evaluation on White Collar Crime: Health Care and Elder Fraud, FY 2019	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2019-R2-CX-0053	$988,159	Open
2019	Prevention of Financial Abuse Among Elders Affected by Cognitive Decline: A Randomized Controlled Trial In Three Rural Communities	Research and Evaluation on White Collar Crime: Health Care and Elder Fraud, FY 2019	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	MI	2019-MU-CX-0094	$595,961	Closed
2019	Using Physician Behavioral Big Data for High Precision Fraud Prediction and Detections	Research and Evaluation on White Collar Crime: Health Care and Elder Fraud, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	MD	2019-R2-CX-0016	$842,768	Closed
2018	Elder Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project:Planning Phase	NIJ FY18 Continuations	THE URBAN INSTITUTE	DC	2016-MU-CX-K006	$999,557	Closed
2017	Defining Late-Life Poly-victimization and Identifying Associated Mental and Physical Health Symptoms	NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON, THE	TX	2017-VF-GX-0001	$271,822	Closed
2017	Developing a Taxonomy To Understand and Measure Outcomes of Success in Community-Based Elder Mistreatment Interventions	NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	NY	2017-VF-GX-0002	$499,982	Closed
2017	Optimizing Bone Loss Across the Lifespan: The Three-Dimensional Structure of Porosity in the Human Femoral Neck and Rib As a Metric of Bone Fragility	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics	The Ohio State University	OH	2017-MU-CX-0009	$50,000	Closed
2016	Elder Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project:Planning Phase	Elder Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project: Planning Phase	THE URBAN INSTITUTE	DC	2016-MU-CX-K006	$399,370	Closed
2016	Planning a Family-Focused Approach to Prevent Elder Mistreatment	Elder Abuse Prevention Demonstration Project: Planning Phase	University of Southern California	CA	2016-ZD-CX-K008	$400,000	Closed
2015	Development and Validation of a Screening Protocol to Identify Elder Abuse in United States Emergency Departments	NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL	NC	2015-IJ-CX-0022	$968,933	Closed
2015	The Health Care Cost of Elder Abuse: An Analysis of Medicare, Medicaid, and Adult Protective Services Data in Maine, 2006 through 2014	NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals	University of Southern Maine	ME	2015-ZD-CX-0003	$328,940	Closed
2014	Development of a brief elder abuse and neglect screener for Emergency Medical Services: Detection of Elder abuse Through Emergency Care Technicians (DETECT)	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities	University of North Texas Health Science Center	TX	2014-MU-CX-0102	$369,039	Closed
2014	Integrating Improved Assessments of Financial Judgment: Conceptual and Measurement Advances	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities	Wayne State University	MI	2014-MU-CX-0001	$468,181	Closed
2014	National Elder Mistreatment Study: 5 Year Followup of Victims and Matched Non-Victims	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Residents of Residential Care Facilities	Medical University of South Carolina	SC	2014-MU-CX-0003	$260,136	Closed
2013	Developing and Testing a Culturally Relevant Practice Model to Understand Financial Maltreatment of Chinese American Elders	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuls and Residents of Residential Care Facilities	AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University	AZ	2013-IJ-CX-0024	$72,775	Closed
2013	Elder Financial Exploitation Victimization: Indentifying Unique Risk Profiles and Factors to Enhance Detection, Prevention and Intervention	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuls and Residents of Residential Care Facilities	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	TX	2013-IJ-CX-0050	$387,736	Closed
2013	Forensic Markers of Physical Elder Abuse: Establishing a Medical Characterization and Identifying the Criminal Justice Approach to Investigation and Prosecution	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on the Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuls and Residents of Residential Care Facilities	University of Southern California	CA	2013-IJ-CX-0025	$518,327	Closed