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 Sort descending	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
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
2019	Understanding the Trafficking of Children for the Purpose of Labor in the United States	Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, FY 2019	NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY	MA	2019-VT-BX-0038	$664,690	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Improving Identification, Prevalence Estimation, and Earlier Intervention for Victims of Labor and Sex Trafficking	Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS	MA	2019-VT-BX-0037	$499,483	Past Project Period End Date
2019	Grooming Traffickers: Investigating the Techniques and Mechanisms for Seducing and Coercing New Traffickers	Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS	MA	2019-R2-CX-0067	$499,796	Past Project Period End Date
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
2019	Partnering to Enhance Services for Survivors: An Evaluability Assessment and Formative Evaluation of Safe Horizon's Anti-Trafficking Program	Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, FY 2019	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL	NC	2019-VT-BX-0039	$390,522	Open
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
2009	Identifying Community Indicators of Human Trafficking	NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research	Research Triangle Institute	NC	2009-IJ-CX-0045	$419,643	Closed
2009	Identifying Challenges to Improve the Investigation and Prosecution of State and Local Human Trafficking Cases	NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research	Northeastern University	MA	2009-IJ-CX-0015	$501,352	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
2014	Exploring a New Data Platform for Research on Human Trafficking Investigation, Prosecution, Sentencing, Time Served, and Recidivism	NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons	Abt Associates Inc.	MA	2014-R2-CX-0006	$492,113	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
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
2009	Evaluation of OVC FY09 Services for Domestic Minor Victims of Human Trafficking	NIJ FY 09 Evaluation of OVC's FY 09 Services for Domestic Minor Victims of Human Trafficking	Research Triangle Institute	NC	2009-VF-GX-0206	$499,992	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
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
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	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
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
2011	Human Trafficking Organizations and Facilitators: A Detailed Profile and Interviews with Convicted Traffickers in the United States	NIJ FY 11 Research Solicitation on Trafficking In Persons (TIP)	Abt Associates Inc.	MA	2011-IJ-CX-0017	$488,007	Closed
2011	Improving Trafficking Victim Identification: Evaluation and Dissemination of a Screening Tool	NIJ FY 11 Research Solicitation on Trafficking In Persons (TIP)	Vera Institute of Justice	NY	2011-MU-MU-0066	$448,421	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
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