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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This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

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Number of Awards: 61
Total Amount Awarded: $46,011,332

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2024	Incentivized Informants and Wrongful Convictions: Understanding the Risks and Mitigating the Effects		LIFE AFTER JUSTICE	IL	15PNIJ-24-GK-03091-MUMU	$1,133,976	Open
2024	Schoolhouse interrogations and confessions: Perspectives from principals and students	NIJ FY24 Graduate Research Fellowship	GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY	VA	15PNIJ-24-GG-01564-RESS	$120,741	Open
2018	Decontamination of Crime Scene Equipment: Evaluating Current Methods and Determining Best Practices	NIJ FY18 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE	NC	2018-DU-BX-0226	$171,041	Closed
2017	A Post-Conviction Mentality: Prosecutorial Assistance as a Pathway to Exoneration	NIJ FY17 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	Rutgers University-Newark	NJ	2017-IJ-CX-0012	$31,771	Closed
2015	2015 Postconviction DNA Testing Program	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts	NC	2015-DY-BX-K001	$565,639	Closed
2015	Achieving Justice in Wisconsin''s Hispanic Community: Post-conviction DNA testing for the Hispanic community	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System	WI	2015-DY-BX-K006	$633,170	Closed
2015	Exoneration of the Innocent in the State of Hawaii through Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII	HI	2015-DY-BX-K002	$410,492	Closed
2015	Guilty Plea and Latino Initiatives	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	University of Illinois Springfield	IL	2015-DY-BX-K005	$753,958	Closed
2015	Orange County Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	County of Orange	CA	2015-DY-BX-K003	$250,000	Closed
2015	Postconviction DNA Program	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	Cook County State''s Attorney''s Office	IL	2015-DY-BX-K007	$400,701	Closed
2015	Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the InnocentUniversity of Kansas School of Law Multi-State Partnership for Innocence	NIJ FY 15 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.	KS	2015-DY-BX-K004	$122,994	Closed
2015	Sentinel Events: A Sustainable Model for System Change	NIJ FY 15 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors	MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	MI	2015-R2-CX-K041	$724,294	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	Arizona DNA Advocacy Project	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University	AZ	2014-DY-BX-K001	$934,003	Closed
2014	California DNA Assistance Program (CADNAP)	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	California Governor''s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)	CA	2014-DY-BX-K002	$1,310,522	Closed
2014	Case Deconstruction of Criminal Investigative Failures	NIJ FY 14 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors	Texas State University	TX	2014-IJ-CX-0037	$389,690	Closed
2014	Massachusetts Evidence Inventory and Innocence Case Review Project	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	Committee for Public Counsel Services	MA	2014-DY-BX-K003	$391,345	Closed
2014	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	New Mexico Department of Public Safety	NM	2014-DY-BX-K005	$620,269	Closed
2014	SADO''s Postconviction DNA Testing Project	NIJ FY 14 Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence to Exonerate the Innocent	State Appellate Defender Office	MI	2014-DY-BX-K004	$337,314	Closed
2013	California DNA Assistance Program	NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Governor's Office of Emergency Services	CA	2013-DY-BX-K003	$962,489	Closed
2013	Estimating the Prevalence of Wrongful Convictions	NIJ FY 13 Social Science Research on Forensic Science	Urban Institute	DC	2013-IJ-CX-0004	$367,894	Closed
2013	Expanding Postconviction DNA Testing for Innocent Washington Prisoners	NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Washington State Patrol	WA	2013-DY-BX-K005	$472,170	Closed
2013	Massachusetts Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Committee for Public Counsel Services	MA	2013-DY-BX-K006	$613,205	Closed
2013	Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority	IL	2013-DY-BX-K002	$332,533	Closed
2013	Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program FY 2013	NIJ FY 13 Postconviction DNA Testing Assistance Program	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System	WI	2013-DY-BX-K004	$511,438	Closed