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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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                                                  Original SolicitationSort descending
                                                  Recipient
                                                  State
                                                  Award Number
                                                  Amount
                                                  Status2019
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        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 Date2019
                                                                                        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 Date2019
                                                                                        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 Date2019
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2019
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Open2019
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2009
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2014
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2014
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2013
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2013
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2012
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2012
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2010
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2013
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2011
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2011
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2011
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2007
                                                                                        "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
  
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