NIJ is seeking proposals for research and evaluation projects that support and inform federal, State, local and tribal criminal justice agencies and victim service providers in responding to the challenges that trafficking in persons (hereinafter “trafficking in persons,” “human trafficking,” or “trafficking”) poses in their jurisdictions. NIJ is particularly interested in research responding to the following priority areas:
- Fostering partnerships between researchers and trafficking survivors.
- Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model Human Trafficking Task Forces.
- Perception of human trafficking victimization in courts (judges, jurors, prosecutors).
- The extent to which existing crime reporting and data systems capture the human trafficking victimization that occurs in a particular jurisdiction.
- Trafficking and sex offender registries.
Awards
Number of Awards: 6
Total Amount Awarded: $3,680,226
Advancing Human Trafficking Prevalence Estimation
Bending Towards Justice: Perceptions of Justice among Human Trafficking Survivors
Capturing Human Trafficking Victimization through Crime Reporting
Failure to Appear: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Victims Experience with the Juvenile Justice System and their Readiness to Change
Researcher-Survivor Formative Evaluation of San Francisco's Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces
Sex Trafficking of Minors: The Impact of Legislative Reform and Judicial Decision Making in Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Communities
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