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

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Subtopic: Human trafficking

Number of Awards: 98
Total Amount Awarded: $52,696,721

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
2015 Advancing Human Trafficking Prevalence Estimation NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Abt Associates Inc. MA 2015-MU-MU-0003 $996,870 Closed
2015 Bending Towards Justice: Perceptions of Justice among Human Trafficking Survivors NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Urban Institute DC 2015-VF-GX-0108 $573,509 Closed
2015 Capturing Human Trafficking Victimization through Crime Reporting NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Northeastern University MA 2015-VF-GX-0105 $462,973 Closed
2015 Continuation Funding for 2014-R2-CX-0005 NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2014-R2-CX-0005 $481,374 Closed
2015 Failure to Appear: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Victims Experience with the Juvenile Justice System and their Readiness to Change NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Board of Regents, NSHE obo University of Nevada Las Vegas NV 2015-VF-GX-0064 $623,607 Closed
2015 Labor Trafficking in North Carolina: A Statewide Survey Using Multistage Sampling NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION CA 2013-IJ-CX-0047 $174,118 Closed
2015 Prostitution and Human Trafficking: Establishing an Evidence-Based Foundation for a Specialized Criminal Justice Response NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations Fund For The City of New York NY 2014-R2-CX-0007 $198,156 Closed
2015 Researcher-Survivor Formative Evaluation of San Francisco's Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Research Triangle Institute NC 2015-VF-GX-0107 $453,117 Closed
2015 Sex Trafficking of Minors: The Impact of Legislative Reform and Judicial Decision Making in Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Communities NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons University of Kentucky Research Foundation KY 2015-MU-MU-0009 $570,150 Closed
2014 Evaluation of a Service Provision Program for Victims of Sex Trafficking NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Trustees of Boston University, BUMC MA 2014-R2-CX-0005 $247,093 Closed
2014 Exploring a New Data Platform for Research on Human Trafficking Investigation, Prosecution, Sentencing, Time Served, and Recidivism NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Abt Associates Inc. MA 2014-R2-CX-0006 $492,113 Closed
2014 Mapping Transnational Gang Activity FY 14 National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards University of San Diego CA 2012-R2-CX-0028 $79,982 Closed
2014 Prostitution, Human Trafficking, and Victim Identification: Establishing an Evidence-Based Foundation for a Specialized Criminal Justice Response NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Fund for the City of New York / Center for Court Innovation NY 2014-R2-CX-0007 $242,000 Closed
2013 Adaptive Expert System that Learns to Detect and Track Patterns of Crime in Internet Advertisements NIJ FY 13 Applied Technology Research and Development for Criminal Justice Purposes Carnegie Mellon University PA 2013-IJ-CX-K007 $245,382 Closed
2013 An empirical analysis of the scope and scale of organized crime''s involvement in human trafficking in the United States NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues Trafficking in Persons, Transnational Organized Crime and Violent Extremism Texas Christian University TX 2013-R2-CX-0049 $308,694 Closed
2013 Evaluation Services for Domestic Minor Victims of Human Trafficking NIJ FY 2012 Office of Research and Evaluation ORE Continuations Research Triangle Institute NC 2009-VF-GX-0206 $59,256 Closed
2013 Labor Trafficking in North Carolina: A Statewide Survey Using Multistage Sampling NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues Trafficking in Persons, Transnational Organized Crime and Violent Extremism SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION CA 2013-IJ-CX-0047 $603,357 Closed
2013 Optimizing Criminal Justice Use of Social Media in the "Web 3.0" Environment: Addressing the Problem of Human Sex Trafficking NIJ FY 13 Applied Technology Research and Development to Optimize Law Enforcement Use of Social Media in the Web 3.0 Environment NORC IL 2013-IJ-CX-K009 $593,715 Closed
2013 Transnational Crimes among Somali-Americans: Convergences of Radicalization and Trafficking NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues Trafficking in Persons, Transnational Organized Crime and Violent Extremism Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago IL 2013-ZA-BX-0008 $793,783 Closed
2012 Addressing Under-Reporting of Minor Victim Sex Trafficking in Illinois NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Research Triangle Insitute NC 2012-IJ-CX-0025 $370,000 Closed
2012 After Rescue: Evaluation of Strategies to Stabilize and Integrate Adult Survivors of Human Trafficking to the United States NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Georgetown University DC 2012-IJ-CX-0026 $354,785 Closed
2012 Identifying Effective Counter-Trafficking Programs and Practices in the U.S.: Legislation, Law Enforcement Processes, and Demand Reduction Strategies That Work NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Colorado College CO 2012-MU-CX-0027 $339,001 Closed
2012 Sex Trafficking and Gangs in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region Area NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons University of San Diego CA 2012-R2-CX-0028 $398,824 Closed
2011 Human Trafficking Organizations and Facilitators: A Detailed Profile and Interviews with Convicted Traffickers in the United States NIJ FY 11 Research Solicitation on Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Abt Associates Inc. MA 2011-IJ-CX-0017 $488,007 Closed
2011 Improving Trafficking Victim Identification: Evaluation and Dissemination of a Screening Tool NIJ FY 11 Research Solicitation on Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Vera Institute of Justice NY 2011-MU-MU-0066 $448,421 Closed