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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: Violence against Women

Number of Awards: 90
Total Amount Awarded: $48,008,960

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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
2016 FY16 Visiting Fellows Program: Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women Visiting Fellows Program (original) University of Alaska Anchorage AK 2016-R2-CX-K002 $236,958 Closed
2015 Supplement to NIJ's Violence Against Indian Women (VAIW) Visiting Executive Research Fellowship: NIJ Cooperative Agreement # 2012-PJ-BX-K001 NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations University of Alaska AK 2012-PJ-BX-K001 $65,268 Closed
2012 National Institute of Justice Fellowship: Violence Against Indian Women Research Program NIJ FY 12 Office of Research and Evaluation ORE Continuations University of Alaska AK 2012-PJ-BX-K001 $493,357 Closed
2005 Investigative Strategies for the Successful Prosecution of Intimate Partner Violence Violence Against Women Research & Evaluation Full Applications University of Alaska AK 2005-WG-BX-0011 $180,042 Closed
2014 Post Coital DNA Recovery in Minority Couples NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence University of Alabama at Birmingham AL 2014-NE-BX-0009 $939,398 Closed
2020 A nationally representative examination of the prevalence, characteristics, and consequences of statutory rape in the United States Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women, Fiscal Year 2020 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AZ 2020-VA-CX-0002 $203,939 Past Project Period End Date
2013 Ethnocultural influences on women''s experiences of and responses to intimate partner abuse NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence California State University Fullerton CA 2013-MU-CX-0038 $925,190 Closed
2005 Evaluation of California's Batterer Intervention Systems Violence Against Women Research & Evaluation Full Applications Judicial Council of California CA 2005-WG-BX-0004 $250,902 Closed
2013 Long-Term Impact of a Positive Youth Development Program on Dating Violence Outcomes During the Transition to Adulthood NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence University of Colorado Denver CO 2013-VA-CX-0002 $440,642 Closed
2012 Expanding Use of the Social Reactions Questionnaire among Diverse Women NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Sexual Violence, Stalking, and Teen Dating Violence University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) CO 2012-W9-BX-0049 $499,813 Closed
2009 Achieving Successful Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships that Strenghthen Practice and Policy: Lessons Learned From the Field NIJ FY09 Building and Enhancing Research Researcher-Practitioner/Policymaker Partnerships Yale University CT 2009-IJ-CX-0207 $343,565 Closed
2012 Criminal Protection Orders As A Critical Strategy To Reduce Domestic Violence: The Impact Of Orders On Victims' Well-Being, Offenders' Behavior, And Children's Contact With Offending Fathers NIJ FY 12 Building and Enhancing Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships Yale University CT 2012-IJ-CX-0045 $753,081 Closed
2015 Supplement to the Evaluation of the Office on Violence Against Women's Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstration Initiative to provide funding to support three comparison sites. NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Yale University CT 2013-ZD-CX-0001 $1,199,975 Open
2008 Dating Violence/Harassment Prevention Programs in Miami-Dade Middle Schools: A Collaborative Multi-level Randomized Experimental Evaluation NIJ FY 08 ORE Violence Against Women Police Executive Research Forum DC 2008-MU-MU-0010 $649,851 Closed
2009 Hiring of Civilian Staff in Policing: An Assessment of the 2009 Byrne Program Recovery Act: Research and Evaluation of Recovery Act State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance POLICE EXECUTIVE RESEARCH FORUM DC 2009-SC-B9-0001 $549,878 Closed
2013 Exploratory Research into the Intersection of Forced Marriage, Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence Urban Institute DC 2013-VA-CX-0033 $256,730 Closed
2014 Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Abuse Allegations and Parental Alienation NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence The George Washington University DC 2014-MU-CX-0859 $501,791 Closed
2012 NIJ Student Research Assistant Program - Supplement NIJ FY 12 Office of Research and Evaluation ORE Continuations American University DC 2010-IJ-CX-0101 $105,946 Closed
2004 Preventing Repeat Incidents of Family Violence: A Randomized Multi-Site Field Test of Second Responders Justice Response to Repeat Victimization in Cases of Violence Against Women Police Foundation DC 2004-WG-BX-0002 $411,961 Closed
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
2002 Domestic Violence Against Older Women The Impact of Economic, Political, and Social Variables The Florida International University Board of Trustees FL 2002-WG-BX-0010 $337,973 Closed
2002 Teh Experience of Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women The Impact of Economic, Political, and Social Variables University of Central Florida FL 2002-WG-BX-0013 $326,033 Closed
2003 Exploring the Construction of VAW & Children CONTINUATION OF NATIONAL DRUG COURT EVALUATION University of Hawaii HI 2003-IJ-CX-0002 $76,488 Closed
2014 Longitudinal Follow-up in the National Survey for Teen Relationships and Violence (STRiV2) NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Violence, and Intimate Partner Violence National Opinion Research Center IL 2014-VA-CX-0065 $351,825 Closed