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: 50
Total Amount Awarded: $29,090,597

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2023	A Statewide Mixed-methods Evaluation of Pennsylvania’s 8th Edition Sentencing Guidelines and their Impacts on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing Outcomes	NIJ FY23 W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System	DREXEL UNIVERSITY	PA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01365-NIJB	$730,834	Awarded, but not yet accepted
2021	Reducing School Violence and Enhancing School Safety: Implementing and Evaluating the Positive School Safety Program for School Climate Staff	Research and Evaluation on School Safety, Fiscal Year 2021	DREXEL UNIVERSITY	PA	15PNIJ-21-GG-02978-RESS	$846,480	Open
2020	Police Organizational Stress: Impacts on Long-term Health and Wellness and Opportunities for Mitigation	Research and Evaluation in Safety, Health, and Wellness in Criminal Justice System, Fiscal Year 2020	TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE	PA	2020-R2-CX-0004	$785,851	Declined
2019	Formative Evaluation of a Pediatric Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program	Evaluations of Services for Victims of Crime, FY 2019	CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA, THE	PA	2019-V3-GX-0003	$678,752	Closed
2018	Evaluation of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program: Long-Term Outcomes and Sustained Impact	Legacy OJJDP Research Grants	DREXEL UNIVERSITY	PA	2017-JF-FX-0055	$750,000	Closed
2017	Evaluating Impacts of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program: An Alternative to Arrest Policing Strategy	NIJ FY17 Understanding the Impacts of Policing Strategies and Practices (Beyond Crime Reduction)	DREXEL UNIVERSITY	PA	2017-CK-BX-0001	$1,081,046	Closed
2017	PBIS in Challenging Contexts: Evaluating a Replicable Implementation Approach in Philadelphia	NIJ FY17 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative	TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE	PA	2017-CK-BX-0016	$2,999,912	Closed
2016	Applying Promising Evidence to New Settings: An Experimental Evaluation of Summer Jobs in Philadelphia	New Investigator/Early Career Program in the Social and Behavioral Sciences	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	PA	2016-R2-CX-0049	$147,210	Closed
2016	The Victim-Offender Overlap: Examining Police and Service System Networks of Response among Violent Conflicts	Research and Evaluation on Victims of Crime	TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	PA	2016-V3-GX-0009	$579,558	Closed
2015	Instilling a Culture of Continuous Learning From Criminal Justice System Errors: A Multi-Stakeholder Sentinel Event Review of Process in Philadelphia	NIJ FY 15 Research on Sentinel Events and Criminal Justice System Errors	Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	PA	2015-R2-CX-K040	$351,052	Open
2015	Suspension Practices in the Context of PBIS: Implications for K-8 Students in the School District of Philadelphia	NIJ FY 15 Comprehensive School Safety Initiative	Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	PA	2015-CK-BX-0013	$883,519	Closed
2015	The Philadelphia Police Department, Office of Forensic Science, Criminalistics Unit Reduction of Forensic Biology and DNA Case Backlog Program	NIJ FY 15 DNA Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program	City of Philadelphia	PA	2015-DN-BX-0033	$966,068	Closed
2014	Space-time study of youth and school violence	NIJ FY 14 Investigator-Initiated Research: The Comprehensive School Safety Initiative	TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE	PA	2014-CK-BX-0008	$3,082,625	Closed
2013	FY2013 DNA Backlog Reaction Reduction Program - City of Philadelphia	NIJ FY 13 DNA Backlog Reduction Program	City of Philadelphia	PA	2013-DN-BX-0114	$1,069,271	Closed
2012	Development of Novel 1,2-Indanedione Fingerprint Reagents	NIJ FY 12 Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship Program	Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	PA	2012-IJ-CX-0019	$25,000	Closed
2012	FY 2012 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of Philadelphia	NIJ FY 12 DNA Backlog Reduction Program	City of Philadelphia	PA	2012-DN-BX-0109	$1,000,761	Closed
2011	FY 2011 DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of Philadelphia	NIJ FY 11 DNA Backlog Reduction Program	City of Philadelphia	PA	2011-DN-BX-K425	$1,146,517	Closed
2010	FY 2010 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of Philadelphia	NIJ FY 10 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program	City of Philadelphia	PA	2010-DN-BX-K114	$968,799	Closed
2010	Immigrant Concentration and Homicide Mortality: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Effects of Ethnic Enclaves	NIJ FY 10 ORE Ph.D.Graduate Research Fellowship Program	Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	PA	2010-IJ-CX-0003	$25,000	Closed
2009	FY 2009 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - City of Philadelphia	NIJ FY 09 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Program	City of Philadelphia	PA	2009-DN-BX-K142	$993,589	Closed
2008	Philadelphia Police- Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant	NIJ FY 08 Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grant Program	City of Philadelphia	PA	2008-CD-BX-0097	$65,600	Closed
2008	Philadelphia Police- Solving Cold Cases with DNA- 2008	NIJ FY 08 Solving Cold Cases with DNA	City of Philadelphia	PA	2008-DN-BX-K171	$585,678	Closed
2008	This project will test, with a randomized controlled trial, an intensive community supervision strategy for probationers and parolees who are at extremely high risk of committing homicidal acts.	NIJ FY 08 ORE Crime and Justice	Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	PA	2008-IJ-CX-0024	$350,000	Closed
2008	What Works in Crime Prevention: Reviews of the Campbell Crime and Justice Group	NIJ Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	PA	2007-IJ-CX-0045	$49,841	Closed
2007	2007 Forensic Backlog Reduction Program	NIJ FY 07 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program Formula Grant Announcement	City of Philadelphia	PA	2007-DN-BX-K092	$766,204	Closed