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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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Subtopic: Human trafficking

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

Funded Awards
FY Title Original Solicitation Recipient State Award Number Amount Status
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
2012 Sex Trafficking and Gangs in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region Area NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons University of San Diego CA 2012-R2-CX-0028 $398,824 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
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
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
2012 Identifying Effective Counter-Trafficking Programs and Practices in the U.S.: Legislation, Law Enforcement Processes, and Demand Reduction Strategies That Work NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Colorado College CO 2012-MU-CX-0027 $339,001 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
2011 Understanding the Organization, Operation and Victimization of Labor Trafficking in the United States NIJ FY 11 Research Solicitation on Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Urban Institute DC 2011-IJ-CX-0026 $498,844 Closed
2015 Bending Towards Justice: Perceptions of Justice among Human Trafficking Survivors NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Urban Institute DC 2015-VF-GX-0108 $573,509 Closed
2016 Prosecuting Trafficking in Persons Cases: An Analysis of Local Strategies and Approaches Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Justice Research and Statistics Association, Inc. DC 2016-IJ-CX-0005 $460,000 Closed
2018 An Object-Centric Approach for Image Analysis to Combat Human Trafficking NIJ FY18 Artificial Intelligence Technology Applied Research and Development for Law Enforcement Applications GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (THE) DC 2018-75-CX-0038 $1,005,852 Closed
2017 Indicators of Sex Trafficking in Online Escort Ads NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons JUSTICE RESEARCH AND STATISTICS ASSOCIATION, INC. DC 2017-MU-CX-0005 $597,532 Closed
2017 Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking NIJ FY17 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 2017-VF-GX-0004 $679,988 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
2021 Evaluating the OHTS Tool and Assessing Outcomes for Human Trafficking Survivors Research and Evaluation of Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2021 THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 15PNIJ-21-GG-03631-MUMU $648,715 Open
2022 Replication Validation of a Human Trafficking Screening Tool for Law Enforcement and Estimation of Prevalence NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons THE URBAN INSTITUTE DC 15PNIJ-22-GG-01569-NIJB $649,332 Open
2016 Estimating the Prevalence of Trafficking Among Homeless and Runaway Youth Age 14-25 in Metro Atlanta Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc. GA 2016-MU-MU-0002 $499,905 Closed
2018 Combating Human Trafficking Using Structural Information in Online Review Sites NIJ FY18 Artificial Intelligence Technology Applied Research and Development for Law Enforcement Applications GEORGIA TECH APPLIED RESEARCH CORP GA 2018-75-CX-0031 $361,069 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
2013 Optimizing Criminal Justice Use of Social Media in the "Web 3.0" Environment: Addressing the Problem of Human Sex Trafficking NIJ FY 13 Applied Technology Research and Development to Optimize Law Enforcement Use of Social Media in the Web 3.0 Environment NORC IL 2013-IJ-CX-K009 $593,715 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
2013 Transnational Crimes among Somali-Americans: Convergences of Radicalization and Trafficking NIJ FY 13 Research and Evaluation on Transnational Issues Trafficking in Persons, Transnational Organized Crime and Violent Extremism Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, Chicago IL 2013-ZA-BX-0008 $793,783 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
2022 Multi-Site Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking NIJ FY22 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER IL 15PNIJ-22-GG-01568-HT $979,022 Open