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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: Human trafficking

Number of Awards: 81
Total Amount Awarded: $41,870,614

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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 Fingernails as Recorders of Region-of-Origin and Travel History NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics University of Utah UT 2014-DN-BX-0003 $35,000 Closed
2014 Implicit Racial Bias, Community Context, and Perceptions of Crime and Justice NIJ FY 14 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture and Crime Northeastern University MA 2014-IJ-CX-0031 $49,679 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 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 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 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
2011 Understanding the Organization, Operation and Victimization of Labor Trafficking in the United States NIJ FY 11 Research Solicitation on Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Urban Institute DC 2011-IJ-CX-0026 $498,844 Closed
2010 An analysis of federal human trafficking cases, including the effect of prostitution arrests on trafficking charges filed, using publicly-available data from the National Archive of Criminal Justice NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on Human Trafficking The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC 2010-IJ-CX-1673 $39,087 Closed
2009 Evaluation of OVC FY09 Services for Domestic Minor Victims of Human Trafficking NIJ FY 09 Evaluation of OVC's FY 09 Services for Domestic Minor Victims of Human Trafficking Research Triangle Institute NC 2009-VF-GX-0206 $499,992 Closed
2009 Identifying Challenges to Improve the Investigation and Prosecution of State and Local Human Trafficking Cases NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research Northeastern University MA 2009-IJ-CX-0015 $501,352 Closed
2009 Identifying Community Indicators of Human Trafficking NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research Research Triangle Institute NC 2009-IJ-CX-0045 $419,643 Closed
2008 A Review and Translation of Spanish-Language Literature on Sex Trafficking NIJ FY 08 ORE Trafficking San Diego University Research Foundation CA 2008-IJ-CX-0008 $59,559 Closed
2007 "Finding Victims of Human Trafficking" NIJ FY07 Trafficking in Human Beings Research and Comprehensive Literature Review National Opinion Research Center (NORC) IL 2007-VT-BX-0001 $293,198 Closed
2007 Data and Research on Human Trafficking: Comprehensive Literature Review NIJ FY07 Trafficking in Human Beings Research and Comprehensive Literature Review Georgetown University DC 2007-VT-BX-K002 $86,802 Closed
2007 Sex Trafficking in a Border Community: A Field Study of Sex Trafficking in Tijuana, Mexico NIJ FY 07 ORE Transnational Crime San Diego University Research Foundation CA 2007-IJ-CX-0013 $297,264 Closed
2006 A Case Study of Human Trafficking: The Transnational Movement of Chinese Women for Sex Work NIJ FY06 ORE Transnational Crime Rutgers, The State University NJ 2006-IJ-CX-0008 $284,287 Closed
2006 Prosecuting Human Trafficking Cases: Lessons Learned and Best Practices from the U.S. and Abroad NIJ FY06 ORE Transnational Crime Caliber Associates Inc VA 2006-IJ-CX-0010 $189,420 Closed