Child trafficking

Law Enforcement Agency Practices and Policies for the Investigation of Child Sex Trafficking: Are Agencies Using Victim-Centered Approaches?

Date Published

October 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

A State-wide Analysis of Characteristics and Predictors of Dual System Involvement Among Child Victims of Human Trafficking

Date Published

January 2024

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.

Improving Outcomes for Child Sex Trafficking Victims, Phase 2: A Rigorous Outcome Evaluation of Love146’s Long-Term Services (LTS) Program

15PNIJ-22-GG-03291-NONF

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$1,244,466

Advancing Visual Analytics and Computational Science to Combat Human Trafficking

2019-R2-CX-4042

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2020

$86,428

Trends and New Directions in the Law Enforcement Response to the Sex Trafficking of Minors: A Nationally Representative Study

2020-MU-CX-0041

Past Project Period End Date

Funding First Awarded

2020

$991,015

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

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...

Advancing Visual Analytics and Computational Science to Combat Human Trafficking

2019-R2-CX-0042

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$86,428

Understanding the Trafficking of Children for the Purpose of Labor in the United States

2019-VT-BX-0038

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2019

$664,690

Evaluation of Services for Victims of Crime

2019-V3-GX-0006

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2005-IJ-CX-0051

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2005

$175,496

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