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                            Funding & Awards
 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. Description

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**Number of Awards:** 75**Total Amount Awarded:** $34,797,576
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                                                  Title
                                                  Original Solicitation
                                                  RecipientSort descending
                                                  State
                                                  Award Number
                                                  Amount
                                                  Status2007
                                                                                        "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
                                                                                        Closed2023
                                                                                        Understanding the Scope and Nature of Forced Criminality in the United States
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
                                                                                        NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        NY
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-01927-HT
                                                                                        $997,729
                                                                                        Open2013
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2009
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2014
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2015
                                                                                        Capturing Human Trafficking Victimization through Crime Reporting
                                                                                        NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
                                                                                        Northeastern University
                                                                                        MA
                                                                                        2015-VF-GX-0105
                                                                                        $462,973
                                                                                        Closed2018
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2005
                                                                                        Understanding and Improving Law Enforcement Responses to Human Trafficking
                                                                                        Research on Trafficking in Human Beings - FY 2005
                                                                                        Northeastern University
                                                                                        MA
                                                                                        2005-IJ-CX-0045
                                                                                        $350,994
                                                                                        Closed2019
                                                                                        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 Date2020
                                                                                        Understanding the Physical and Psychological Health and Wellness Needs of Minor Sex Trafficking Victims
                                                                                        Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2020
                                                                                        NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
                                                                                        MA
                                                                                        2020-VT-BX-0111
                                                                                        $985,786
                                                                                        Open2020
                                                                                        Identification of Effective Strategies to Disrupt Recruitment of Victims in Human Trafficking: Qualitative Data, Systems Modeling, Survivors and Law Enforcement
                                                                                        Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2020
                                                                                        REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
                                                                                        MN
                                                                                        2020-MU-MU-0040
                                                                                        $758,811
                                                                                        Past Project Period End Date2020
                                                                                        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 Date2009
                                                                                        Identifying Community Indicators of Human Trafficking
                                                                                        NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research
                                                                                        Research Triangle Institute
                                                                                        NC
                                                                                        2009-IJ-CX-0045
                                                                                        $419,643
                                                                                        Closed2009
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2015
                                                                                        Researcher-Survivor Formative Evaluation of San Francisco's Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces
                                                                                        NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
                                                                                        Research Triangle Institute
                                                                                        NC
                                                                                        2015-VF-GX-0107
                                                                                        $453,117
                                                                                        Closed2016
                                                                                        Measuring Outcomes in Services to Domestic Victims of Human Trafficking: Instrument Development and Testing
                                                                                        Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
                                                                                        RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
                                                                                        NC
                                                                                        2016-VT-BX-0001
                                                                                        $464,515
                                                                                        Closed2018
                                                                                        Identify, Respond, Prevent: Addressing Human Trafficking among Juvenile Justice- and Child Welfare-Involved Youth
                                                                                        NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
                                                                                        RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
                                                                                        NC
                                                                                        2018-MU-MU-0033
                                                                                        $689,381
                                                                                        Past Project Period End Date2013
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2020
                                                                                        Understanding What Works in the Successful Identification, Investigation, and Prosecution of Labor Trafficking Cases in the United States
                                                                                        Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2020
                                                                                        RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
                                                                                        NC
                                                                                        2020-75-CX-0010
                                                                                        $583,465
                                                                                        Past Project Period End Date2021
                                                                                        Labor trafficking in construction and hospitality: Analyzing victim recruitment, exploitation, and service needs to identify strategies for prevention and intervention
                                                                                        Research and Evaluation of Trafficking in Persons, Fiscal Year 2021
                                                                                        RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
                                                                                        NC
                                                                                        15PNIJ-21-GG-03632-HT
                                                                                        $975,209
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Evaluation of the California Human Trafficking Victim Assistance Grant Program
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
                                                                                        RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
                                                                                        NC
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GG-01926-HT
                                                                                        $799,859
                                                                                        Open2006
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2015
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2008
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2007
                                                                                        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
  
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