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 Prostitution, Human Trafficking, and Victim Identification: Establishing an Evidence-Based Foundation for a Specialized Criminal Justice Response
Note:
              This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Awardee
              Fund for the City of New York / Center for Court Innovation
Award #
              2014-R2-CX-0007
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    New York, NY
Congressional District
              10
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2014
Total funding (to date)
              $440,156
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 14 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2014, $242,000)
A. Statement of the Problem.
The past five years have seen the sudden growth of specialized diversion programs and courts in response to the intersecting problems of prostitution and human trafficking. To inform policies in these new models, a strong evidence-based foundation does not yet exist concerning the size, characteristics, needs, and victimization experiences of the trafficked population.
B. Subjects
The study will be implemented with a minimum of 320 adults who exchange sex for money in New York City prostitution markets.
C. Partnerships
To complete the proposed research project, the Center for Court Innovation will partner with the Vera Institute of Justice, whose work will involve broad consultation on planned research strategies.
D. Research Design and Methods
The study will involve interviews in community settings, using proven respondent-driven sampling (RDS) techniques, to understand the size, needs, characteristics, and victimization status of adults engaged in prostitution. In addition, the interviews will yield insight into experiences in existing human trafficking intervention courts (HTICs), since research subjects I will include individuals who (1) were processed in an HTIC and (2) were processed through a non-specialized court.
E. Analysis
The research will culminate in the use of standard quantitative analysis techniques (e.g., descriptive and correlation analysis. multivariable regressions, and interview content analysis); along with transcript production and qualitative analysis of emergent themes and findings.
F. Products, Reports, and Data Archiving
The study will ultimately spawn an executive summary for NIJ ; a series of research journal publications; and a series of policymaker/practitioner publications that identify major findings in accessible prose. Multi-media dissemination will also include posting products to web sites; e-mail blasts, Twitter updates, and audio interviews to announce and publicize publications; and conference presentations. Quantitative datasets will be stripped of identifiers and archived, per NIJ policy. ca/ncf
Supplemental Award 1 (Fiscal Year 2015, $198,156)
A. Statement of the Problem
The past five years have seen the sudden growth of specialized diversion programs and courts in response to the intersecting problems of prostitution and human trafficking. To inform policies in
these new models, a strong evidence-based foundation does not yet exist concerning the size of the trafficked population; its characteristics, needs, and victimization experiences; and the ability of criminal justice staff to make appropriate service referrals.
B. Subjects
The study will be implemented with a minimum of: (1) 400 adults who exchange sex for money in New York City prostitution markets; and (2) 30 criminal justice and community stakeholders involved in implementing HTICs across New York City.
C. Research Design and Methods
The study involves two research strategies, reflecting the two definitions provided above for the subject population: (1) interviews in community settings, using proven respondent-driven sampling (RDS) techniques, to understand the size, needs, characteristics, and victimization status of adults engaged in prostitution; and (2) exploratory interviews with criminal justice stakeholders, service providers, and advocates about their perceptions, attitudes, and preferences regarding the goals and operational strategies that human trafficking intervention courts should adoptand can feasibly adopt.
D. Analysis
Both research strategies will culminate in the use of standard quantitative analysis techniques (e.g., descriptive and correlation analysis, multivariable regressions, and interview content analysis); along with transcript production and qualitative analysis of themes and findings.
E. Products, Reports, and Data Archiving
The study will spawn an executive summary for NIJ; a series of research journal publications; and a series of policymaker/practitioner publications that identify major findings in accessible prose. Multimedia dissemination will also include posting products to web sites; e-mail blasts, Twitter updates, and audio interviews to announce and publicize publications; and conference presentations. Quantitative datasets will be stripped of identifiers and archived, per NIJ policy.
Note: This project contains a research and/or development component, as defined in applicable law.
nca/ncf


  
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                      Navigating Force and Choice: Experiences in the New York City Sex Trade and the Criminal Justice System's Response

  
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