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Prevalence of Neurodevelopmental, Mental, and Behavioral Disorders in a Sample of U.S. Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth, and Associations with Health and Health Care Access

Journal

Journal of Human Trafficking

Date Published

November 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Assessing the Use of Law Enforcement and Prosecutorial Case Files to Understand Sex Trafficking in the United States: Caveats and Considerations

Journal

Journal of Human Trafficking

Date Published

August 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

“Things that Involve Sex are Just Different”: US Anti-Trafficking Law and Policy on the Books, in Their Minds, and in Action

Journal

ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY

Date Published

2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

Visualizing Deep Similarity Networks

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

TraffickCam: Explainable Image Matching For Sex Trafficking Investigations

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Improved Embeddings With Easy Positive Triplet Mining

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

“They had to change the model to fit the victim, versus the victim having to fit the model”: Innovative solutions in community response to commercial sexual exploitation

Journal

Child and Youth Services

Date Published

December 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Research Brief: Clinics and Emergency Services

Date Published

November 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Research Brief: Serving Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Date Published

March 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Online Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in a National Victim Survey

Journal

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Date Published

November 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Understanding the Retrospective and Current Health Care Needs and Service Experiences of Adult Survivors of Minor Sex Trafficking

Date Published

October 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Persisting Concerns About Image Exposure Among Survivors of Image-Based Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Childhood

Journal

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Date Published

November 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Child Trafficking as a Predictor of Subsequent Juvenile Justice Involvement

Journal

Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment &Trauma

Date Published

December 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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

Date Published

2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

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

Date Published

2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Human Trafficking Data Project

Date Published

2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Trafficker or Trafficked? Predicting Victim versus Offender Status of Female Defendants in Federal Sex Trafficking Prosecutions Using the T.R.A.P. Typology

Journal

Victims & Offenders

Date Published

January 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Partnering to Enhance Services for Survivors: An Evaluability Assessment and Formative Evaluation of Safe Horizon's Anti-Trafficking Program

Date Published

2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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

Journal

Child Abuse & Neglect

Date Published

December 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Labor Trafficking in Construction and Hospitality Topical Brief: Immigrant Workers

Date Published

April 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Labor Trafficking in Construction and Hospitality Topical Brief: Barriers to Help-Seeking

Date Published

April 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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

Journal

Children and Youth Services Review

Date Published

January 2025

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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

Date Published

January 14, 2025

Summary of a plenary panel from the 2024 NIJ Research Conference

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

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

Journal

American Journal of Criminal Justice

Date Published

October 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)