Child trafficking

“Flexibility and Consistency”: Qualitative Insights on Valuable Skills for Providers Working with Survivors of Child Sex Trafficking

Date Published

May 2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Human Trafficking

December 2022

Series

Justice Today Podcast

Human trafficking is an issue without a simple solution, but research on this problem is helping victims and developing tools and information to help better understand, prevent, and respond to trafficking. NIJ Scientist Mary Carlton joins host Josh Mondoro, Communications Assistant at NIJ, for a discussion about this research.

Study Revealed Safe Harbor Laws Increased Protections for Sex-Trafficked Youth, Identified Needs for Agency Support and Judicial Training

Date Published

March 2021

Agencies

NIJ

Advancing Visual Analytics and Computational Science to Combat Human Trafficking

2019-R2-CX-4042

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$86,428

Human Trafficking and the Child Welfare Population in Florida

Date Published

May 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Measuring a Year of Child Pornography Trafficking by U.S. Computers on a Peer-to-Peer Network

Date Published

February 2014

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Research on Law Enforcement Responses to Sex Trafficking of Minors, Fiscal Year 2020

Closing Date

May 26, 2020

With this solicitation, NIJ aims to better understand how law enforcement practice with regard to preventing and responding to the sex trafficking of minors has evolved since passage to the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000. NIJ is specifically interested in understanding how widely law enforcement agencies have adopted practices that are based on the perspective that the minor is a...