Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.

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Number of Awards: 76
Total Amount Awarded: $35,262,197

Funded Awards
FY	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount Sort descending	Status
2005	Local Actors and US Anti-trafficking Policy:Interpretation, Mediation, and Implementation	Graduate Research Fellowship-Fall	Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York	NY	2006-IJ-CX-0003	$20,000	Closed
2018	Crime in Public Space and Online Domains: Commercial Sex and Sex Trafficking in Massage Businesses	NIJ FY18 Graduate Research Fellowship in Social and Behavioral Sciences	NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY	MA	2018-R2-CX-0005	$32,000	Closed
2014	Fingernails as Recorders of Region-of-Origin and Travel History	NIJ FY 14 Graduate Research Fellowship Program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics	University of Utah	UT	2014-DN-BX-0003	$35,000	Closed
2010	An analysis of federal human trafficking cases, including the effect of prostitution arrests on trafficking charges filed, using publicly-available data from the National Archive of Criminal Justice	NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on Human Trafficking	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	NC	2010-IJ-CX-1673	$39,087	Closed
2014	Implicit Racial Bias, Community Context, and Perceptions of Crime and Justice	NIJ FY 14 W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship for Research in Race, Gender, Culture and Crime	Northeastern University	MA	2014-IJ-CX-0031	$49,679	Closed
2013	Evaluation Services for Domestic Minor Victims of Human Trafficking	NIJ FY 2012 Office of Research and Evaluation ORE Continuations	Research Triangle Institute	NC	2009-VF-GX-0206	$59,256	Closed
2008	A Review and Translation of Spanish-Language Literature on Sex Trafficking	NIJ FY 08 ORE Trafficking	San Diego University Research Foundation	CA	2008-IJ-CX-0008	$59,559	Closed
2019	Advancing Visual Analytics and Computational Science to Combat Human Trafficking	Graduate Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, FY 2019	Georgia Tech Research Corporation	GA	2019-R2-CX-0042	$86,428	Closed
2020	Advancing Visual Analytics and Computational Science to Combat Human Trafficking	NIJ Non-solicited Applications, FY 2020	GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION	GA	2019-R2-CX-4042	$86,428	Closed
2007	Data and Research on Human Trafficking: Comprehensive Literature Review	NIJ FY07 Trafficking in Human Beings Research and Comprehensive Literature Review	Georgetown University	DC	2007-VT-BX-K002	$86,802	Closed
2020	Disrupting Human Trafficking Networks through Mathematical Modeling: Addressing Replacement Effects and Uncertain Information	Graduate Research Fellowship, Fiscal Year 2020	RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE	NY	2020-R2-CX-0022	$100,000	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Northwest Indian Community Development Center- Tribal Law and Policy Institute Research Partnership	Tribal-Researcher Capacity Building Grants Solicitation, FY 2019	TRIBAL LAW AND POLICY INSTITUTE	CA	2019-75-CX-0016	$105,000	Closed
2015	Labor Trafficking in North Carolina: A Statewide Survey Using Multistage Sampling	NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	CA	2013-IJ-CX-0047	$174,118	Closed
2006	Prosecuting Human Trafficking Cases: Lessons Learned and Best Practices from the U.S. and Abroad	NIJ FY06 ORE Transnational Crime	Caliber Associates Inc	VA	2006-IJ-CX-0010	$189,420	Closed
2015	Prostitution and Human Trafficking: Establishing an Evidence-Based Foundation for a Specialized Criminal Justice Response	NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations	Fund For The City of New York	NY	2014-R2-CX-0007	$198,156	Closed
2001	Trafficking in Persons in the U.S.	National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards	Croft Institute for International Studies	MS	2001-IJ-CX-0027	$199,395	Closed
2004	SOLICITATION FOR CRIME AND JUSTICE RESEARCH LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO HUMAN TRAFFICING AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR VICTIMS: CURRENT PRACTICES AND LESSONS LEARNED	Solicitation for Crime and Justice Research	Caliber Associates Inc	VA	2004-WG-BX-0088	$199,661	Closed
2020	A National Assessment of Demand Reduction Efforts, Part II: New Developments in the Primary Prevention of Sex Trafficking	Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2020	NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION, INC.	DC	2020-75-CX-0011	$239,946	Closed
2014	Prostitution, Human Trafficking, and Victim Identification: Establishing an Evidence-Based Foundation for a Specialized Criminal Justice Response	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	Fund for the City of New York / Center for Court Innovation	NY	2014-R2-CX-0007	$242,000	Closed
2014	Evaluation of a Service Provision Program for Victims of Sex Trafficking	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	Trustees of Boston University, BUMC	MA	2014-R2-CX-0005	$247,093	Closed
2006	A Case Study of Human Trafficking: The Transnational Movement of Chinese Women for Sex Work	NIJ FY06 ORE Transnational Crime	Rutgers, The State University	NJ	2006-IJ-CX-0008	$284,287	Closed
2007	"Finding Victims of Human Trafficking"	NIJ FY07 Trafficking in Human Beings Research and Comprehensive Literature Review	National Opinion Research Center (NORC)	IL	2007-VT-BX-0001	$293,198	Closed
2019	Evaluability Assessment of a Metropolitan Network Service Delivery Model to Connect Trafficked Persons with a Full Range of Victim Services	Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, FY 2019	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	2019-VT-BX-0036	$294,221	Closed
2007	Sex Trafficking in a Border Community: A Field Study of Sex Trafficking in Tijuana, Mexico	NIJ FY 07 ORE Transnational Crime	San Diego University Research Foundation	CA	2007-IJ-CX-0013	$297,264	Closed
2013	An empirical analysis of the scope and scale of organized crime''s involvement in human trafficking in the United States	NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues Trafficking in Persons, Transnational Organized Crime and Violent Extremism	Texas Christian University	TX	2013-R2-CX-0049	$308,694	Closed