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Overview of Human Trafficking and NIJ’s Role

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Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking is a crime involving the exploitation of a person for labor, services, or commercial sex.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and its subsequent reauthorizations recognize and define two primary forms of human trafficking:

• Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a...

Labor Trafficking in Construction and Hospitality Survey Findings: Chicago

Date Published

2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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Child Trafficking as a Predictor of Subsequent Juvenile Justice Involvement

Date Published

December 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Phase Two of ETA: Evaluation of Technology-based Advocacy Services: Assessment of Program Outcomes, Technical Report/Final Progress Report

Date Published

2024

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NIJ-Sponsored

Phase Two of ETA: Evaluation of Technology-based Advocacy Services, Brief Summary

Date Published

2025

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NIJ-Sponsored

Human Trafficking Data Project

Date Published

2025

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Labor Trafficking in Construction and Hospitality Survey Findings: New York

Date Published

December 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Verified Human Trafficking Allegations Among Single and Dual System-Involved Children: Predicting Initial and Repeat Victimization

Date Published

December 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Labor Trafficking in Construction and Hospitality Survey Findings: Summit County

Date Published

2025

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Labor Trafficking in Construction and Hospitality Survey Findings: Denver

Date Published

April 2025

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Assessing the Predictive Utility of Florida’s Human Trafficking Screening Tool among Dual System-involved Youth

Date Published

January 2025

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

30 Years of the Violence Against Women Act: Endurance, Expansion, and the Next Era

Improving the Systems Response to Victims of Human Trafficking with Substance Use Disorders in Minnesota

15PNIJ-24-GG-05452-NIJB

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$399,969

Identifying High-Priority Needs to Improve the Measurement and Application of Human Trafficking Prevalence Estimates

Date Published

October 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Leveraging Gaming to Enhance Knowledge Graphs for Explainable Generative AI Applications

Date Published

August 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Postmortem CT Scans Supplement and Replace Full Autopsies

Date Published

2024

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Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ

A Practical Guide to Interviewing Potential Human Trafficking Victims

Date Published

November 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

A Practical Guide to Interviewing Potential Human Trafficking Victims

Opening Ceremony: Remarks from NIJ Director Nancy La Vigne at the NIJ 2024 Research Conference

September 2024

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Human-Centered Approach To Technology To Combat Human Trafficking

Date Published

December 2022

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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NIJ-Sponsored

Crime, Place, and Networks in the Age of the Internet: The Case of Online-Promoted Illicit Massage Businesses

Date Published

March 2020

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Disaggregated Estimates of the Prevalence of Trafficking in Humans (DEPTH)

15PNIJ-24-GG-01747-HT

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$2,495,790

Exploring the Intersection of Human Trafficking, Drug Trafficking, and Other Criminal Activity in the United States

15PNIJ-24-GG-01904-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$649,895

Exploring the Nexus of Human Trafficking and Drug Trafficking in a Border County

15PNIJ-24-GG-01907-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2024

$649,732

Evaluating Technology-Based Services for Victims of Crime