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 Identifying Effective Counter-Trafficking Programs and Practices in the U.S.: Legislation, Law Enforcement Processes, and Demand Reduction Strategies That Work
Award Information
Awardee
              Colorado College
Award #
              2012-MU-CX-0027
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Colorado Springs, CO
Congressional District
              5
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2012
Total funding (to date)
              $339,001
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 12 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2012, $339,001)
After a decade of efforts to combat human trafficking in the United States through legislation, law enforcement, victim services, and public awareness, it is critical to begin to assess what legislative, legal, and civic responses have been most effective in achieving the desired outcome of reducing opportunities and instances of human trafficking. This project will begin to fill gaps in our understanding of effective anti-trafficking responses by evaluating three strategic platforms to combat human trafficking in the U.S. First, the project will examine the effectiveness of state-level human trafficking legislation. To fulfill this objective, the project team will code the trafficking legislation in all fifty states, gather data on the number of prosecutions and adjudicatory outcomes of each prosecution for offenses under human trafficking statutes in each state, and then model the impact of anti-trafficking statutes on state prosecutions and convictions. Second, the project will evaluate how evidentiary factors predict human trafficking prosecutions and convictions. For this platform, the project team will create and analyze a database that catalogues the legal and extra-legal characteristics of state human trafficking prosecutions to date. This will allow us to ascertain the legal processes that have led to successful prosecutions. Third, the project will explore public opinion on human trafficking through a nationally representative survey containing embedded experiments. The proposed survey experiment will illustrate the current state of public opinion on human trafficking, present a more complete picture of why the public holds the beliefs that they do, and perhaps most importantly, identify strategies to effectively bolster public awareness of and interest in this vital human rights issue.
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                      Crime frames and gender differences in the activation of crime concern and crime responses
                  Anti-Immigration Sentiment and Public Opinion on Human Trafficking
                  Assessing the Impact of State Human Trafficking Legislation on Criminal Justice System Outcomes
                  Challenging the Dominant Frame: The Moderating Impact of Exposure and Knowledge on Perceptions of Sex Trafficking Victimization
                  Identifying Effective Counter-Trafficking Programs and Practices in the U.S.: Legislative, Legal, and Public Opinion Strategies that Work

  
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