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The Outcomes for Human Trafficking Instrument: Validity and Reliability Testing

Date Published

2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Understanding the Scope and Nature of Forced Criminality in the United States

15PNIJ-23-GG-01927-HT

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$997,729

Evaluating Processes and Outcomes of Housing Models for Victims of Human Trafficking

15PNIJ-23-GK-01928-HT

Open

Funding First Awarded

2023

$654,195

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

Date Published

2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Quantifying the relationship between large public events and escort advertising behavior

Date Published

March 2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Active search of connections for case building and combating human trafficking

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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

Date Published

2015

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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

National Institute of Justice Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report

Date Published

January 2023

Publication Type

Report (Annual/Periodic)

Agencies

NIJ

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

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.

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Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Human Trafficking

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Understanding, Preventing, and Responding to Human Trafficking

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

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

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