National Institute of Justice Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report
Date Published
January 2023
Publication Type
Report (Annual/Periodic)
Agencies
NIJ
Human trafficking
Law Enforcement Guide on Indicators of Sex Trafficking in Online Escort Ads
Date Published
December 2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Human Trafficking
Date Published
December 2022
Agencies
NIJ
Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Human Trafficking
December 2022
Series
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.
Human Trafficking
NIJ funds research on human trafficking and evaluation of promising practices. The overall emphasis for NIJ’s research lies on:
- Strengthening the science of measuring the prevalence of human trafficking
- Preventing trafficking
- Improving the identification, investigation, and prosecution of traffickers
- Identifying best practices for identifying and providing services to victims.
While NIJ focuses...
Identifying online risk markers of hard-to-observe crimes through semi-inductive triangulation: The case of human trafficking in the United States
Date Published
May 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Explaining the Use of Traditional Law Enforcement Responses to Human Trafficking Concerns in Illicit Massage Businesses
Date Published
April 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Recommendations for Practitioners Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Forces to Combat Human Trafficking
Date Published
June 2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Collaboration and Challenges in Antitrafficking Task Forces: Lessons Learned from the Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Forces to Combat Human Trafficking
Date Published
June 2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Findings from an Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Forces to Combat Human Trafficking
Date Published
January 2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
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
Replication Validation of a Human Trafficking Screening Tool for Law Enforcement and Estimation of Prevalence
15PNIJ-22-GG-01569-NIJB
Open
Funding First Awarded
2022
$649,332
Multi-Site Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking
15PNIJ-22-GG-01568-HT
Open
Funding First Awarded
2022
$979,022
Human Trafficking Project
15PNIJ-22-GK-00246-BRND
Open
Funding First Awarded
2022
$1,187,000
Evaluability Assessment of a Metropolitan Network Service Delivery Model to Connect Trafficked Persons with a Full Range of Victim Services, Final Research Report
Date Published
June 2022
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Evaluation of Technology-based Advocacy Services (ETA): Technical Report, Executive Summary
Date Published
2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Trafficking in Persons: Summary of Focus Group Discussion
Date Published
2007
Publication Type
Conference Material
Agencies
NIJ
Organised Crime in Serbia--Media Construction and Social Reaction (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 685-694, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-207973)
Date Published
September 2004
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ
Effective Implementation of New Legislation in Crime Control in Bosnia and Herzegovina (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 472-489, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-207973)
Date Published
September 2004
Publication Type
Legislation/Policy Analysis
Agencies
NIJ
The Hidden Costs of Reentry: Understanding the Barriers to Removing a Criminal Record
May 2022
NIJ hosted a webinar to discuss under-researched aspects of reentry: expungement of criminal records and the impact of those records. This webinar includes a presentation of ongoing research projects examining the impact of legal aid for expungement and past research projects studying the accuracy and permanency of criminal records and the prevalence of collateral consequences of conviction. A Q&A session will conclude this webinar.
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Understanding and Characterizing Labor Trafficking Among U.S. Citizen Victims
Date Published
April 25, 2022
Understanding and Characterizing Labor Trafficking Among U.S. Citizen Victims
Date Published
April 2022
Agencies
NIJ
Sex Trafficking and Substance Use, Identifying High-Priority Needs Within the Criminal Justice System
Date Published
2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Research in Brief: Putting Sex Traffickers Out of Business: Combatting Human Trafficking and Prostitution by Reducing the Demand for Commercial Sex
Date Published
July 2014
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Evaluation,
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ
The Prosecution of State-Level Human Trafficking Cases in the United States
Date Published
2016
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description,
Legislation/Policy Description,
Legislation/Policy Analysis
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored