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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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        FY
                                                  Title
                                                  Original Solicitation
                                                  Recipient
                                                  StateSort descending
                                                  Award Number
                                                  Amount
                                                  Status2015
                                                                                        Sex Trafficking of Minors: The Impact of Legislative Reform and Judicial Decision Making in Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Communities
                                                                                        NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
                                                                                        University of Kentucky Research Foundation
                                                                                        KY
                                                                                        2015-MU-MU-0009
                                                                                        $570,150
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2015
                                                                                        Advancing Human Trafficking Prevalence Estimation
                                                                                        NIJ FY 15 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
                                                                                        Abt Associates Inc.
                                                                                        MA
                                                                                        2015-MU-MU-0003
                                                                                        $996,870
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed2015
                                                                                        Continuation Funding for 2014-R2-CX-0005
                                                                                        NIJ FY 15 Office of Research and Evaluation Continuations
                                                                                        Trustees of Boston University, BUMC
                                                                                        MA
                                                                                        2014-R2-CX-0005
                                                                                        $481,374
                                                                                        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 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 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
                                                                                        Open2023
                                                                                        Evaluating Processes and Outcomes of Housing Models for Victims of Human Trafficking
                                                                                        NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Trafficking in Persons
                                                                                        HARVARD COLLEGE PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF
                                                                                        MA
                                                                                        15PNIJ-23-GK-01928-HT
                                                                                        $654,195
                                                                                        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 Date2001
                                                                                        Trafficking in Persons in the U.S.
                                                                                        National Institute of Justice Continuation Awards
                                                                                        Croft Institute for International Studies
                                                                                        MS
                                                                                        2001-IJ-CX-0027
                                                                                        $199,395
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        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
                                                                                        Closed
  
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