Quantifying the relationship between large public events and escort advertising behavior
Date Published
March 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Sex trafficking
Active search of connections for case building and combating human trafficking
Date Published
2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Do public events affect sex trafficking activity?
Date Published
2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Leveraging publicly available data to discern patterns of human-trafficking activity
Date Published
2015
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
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
Date Published
May 2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
Closing Date
Grants.gov Deadline
Application JustGrants Deadline
In collaboration with the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), NIJ seeks to build upon its research and evaluation efforts to better understand, prevent, and respond to trafficking in persons in the United States. Applicants should propose research and evaluation projects that — first and foremost — have clear implications for criminal justice policy and practice in the United States. NIJ seeks proposals for research...
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
Debunking Conventional Wisdom: Using Online Escort Ads in Sex Trafficking Investigations
Date Published
October 2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Evaluation of Services for the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth: A Scoping Review
Date Published
October 2022
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
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
FY 2021 Report to the Committees on the Judiciary on the Study of Investigative Factors Related to Online Child Exploitation Report
Date Published
August 2022
Agencies
NIJ
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
In Their Own Words: The Impact of Indirect Trauma Exposure on Judges Presiding Over Cases Involving Minors Involved in Sex Trafficking
Date Published
2021
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored