Research Funding

External Awards

$2,824,985 in total

2022-2023
Principal Investigator: City of Paterson, NJ Police Department
($93,728)
– Analytical Assistance to the Coalition for Opioid Response and Assessment

2020-2022
Principal Investigator: National Institute of Justice, Investigator-Initiated Research and Evaluation on Firearm Violence [2019-R2-CX0004]
($503,129)
– The Impact of Gunshot Detection Technology on Gun Violence in Kansas City and Chicago: A Multi-Pronged Synthetic Control Evaluation

2020-2021
Co-Principal Investigator: U.S. Department of State
($306,720)
– Western Hemisphere Regional Transnational Crime Assessment and Analysis

2020-2021
Principal Investigator: City of Paterson, NJ Police Department
($146,851)
– Developing and Evaluating a Data-Driven Approach to Address the Opioid Epidemic

2019-2020
Principal Investigator: Charles Koch Foundation, Criminal Justice &
Policing Reform Program
($110,000)
– Identifying Situational Determinants of Police Use of Force: A Systematic Social Observation of Body Camera Footage in Newark, NJ

2018-2020
Co-Principal Investigator: Bureau of Justice Assistance, Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program [2017-BC-BX-0045]
($496,920)
– Newark Public Safety Department Body-Worn Camera Enhancement Project

2017-2018
Co-Principal Investigator: The Swedish National Council for Crime
Prevention (Brå)
(£11,250)
– The Effect of CCTV on Crime and Perceptions of Safety: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2014-2017
Co-Principal Investigator: National Institute of Justice, Testing Geospatial
Predictive Policing Strategies [2013-IJ-CX-0053]
($461,384)
– Policing by Place: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Effectiveness of Risk Terrain Modeling for Allocating Police Resources in New York City

2013-2015
Co-Principal Investigator: National Institute of Justice, Testing Geospatial
Police Strategies and Exploring their Relationship to Criminological
Theories [2012-IJ-CX-0038]
($499,633)
– A Multi-Jurisdictional Test of Risk Terrain Modeling and a Place-Based Evaluation of Environmental Risk-Based Patrol Deployment Strategies

2011-2013
Co-Principal Investigator (for Newark Police Department): National
Institute of Justice, Research on Policing [2010-IJ-CX-0026]
($188,620)
– Detection of Crime, Resource Deployment, and Predictors of Success: A Multi-Level Analysis of CCTV in Newark, NJ

2010
Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology & Criminal Justice
Dissertation Award
($3,000)
– Project Title: Identifying the Best Context for CCTV Camera Deployment: An Analysis of Micro-Level Features