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It's a Marathon Not a Race: Exiting the Commercial Sex Trade

Date Published

July 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Thesis/Dissertation

A Transdisciplinary Approach for Generating Synthetic but Realistic Domestic Sex Trafficking Networks

Journal

IISE Transactions

Date Published

2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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

Journal

Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work

Date Published

May 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Multi-period Max Flow Network Interdiction with Restructuring for Disrupting Domestic Sex Trafficking Networks

Journal

Annals of Operations Research

Date Published

December 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Quantifying the relationship between large public events and escort advertising behavior

Journal

Journal of Human Trafficking

Date Published

March 2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Active search of connections for case building and combating human trafficking

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Do public events affect sex trafficking activity?

Date Published

2016

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Leveraging publicly available data to discern patterns of human-trafficking activity

Journal

Journal of Human Trafficking

Date Published

2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Examining the Geography of Illicit Massage Businesses Hosting Commercial Sex and Sex Trafficking in the United States: The Role of Census Tract and City-Level Factors

Journal

Crime & Delinquency

Date Published

May 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons

Closing Date

May 8, 2023

Grants.gov Deadline

April 24, 2023

Application JustGrants Deadline

May 8, 2023

Gender-Based Violence and the Latinx Community

September 2022

In this webinar, a panel of experts will share what the field currently knows about gender-based violence in the Latinx community.

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National Institute of Justice Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report

Date Published

January 2023

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Report (Annual/Periodic)

Law Enforcement Guide on Indicators of Sex Trafficking in Online Escort Ads

Date Published

December 2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Handbook

Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Human Trafficking

Date Published

December 2022

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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.

Transcript

Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Human Trafficking

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Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Human Trafficking

Debunking Conventional Wisdom: Using Online Escort Ads in Sex Trafficking Investigations

Journal

Police Chief

Date Published

October 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Embracing Tribal Culture to Build Research Partnerships

Date Published

November 2022

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

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 on human trafficking as it occurs in the United States, it draws on...

Identifying online risk markers of hard-to-observe crimes through semi-inductive triangulation: The case of human trafficking in the United States

Journal

The British Journal of Criminology

Date Published

May 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Explaining the Use of Traditional Law Enforcement Responses to Human Trafficking Concerns in Illicit Massage Businesses

Journal

Justice Quarterly

Date Published

April 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Recommendations for Practitioners Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Forces to Combat Human Trafficking

Date Published

June 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Collaboration and Challenges in Antitrafficking Task Forces: Lessons Learned from the Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Forces to Combat Human Trafficking

Date Published

June 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Findings from an Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Forces to Combat Human Trafficking

Date Published

January 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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