Publications & Multimedia
The following resources are a sample of available topical materials released in recent years. See the Publications section of our site for additional resources.
Human Trafficking Task Force Protocol Development Training Video Series
Office for Victims of Crime-Sponsored, 2023
The Outcomes for Human Trafficking Instrument: Validity and Reliability Testing
National Institute of Justice-Sponsored, 2023
Reimagining Labor Trafficking: A Case Series on the Intersection of Forced Labor and Intimate Partner Violence
Office for Victims of Crime-Sponsored, 2023
Collaboration and Challenges in Antitrafficking Task Forces: Lessons Learned from the Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Forces to Combat Human Trafficking
National Institute of Justice-Sponsored, June 2022
Developing Evaluation Approaches for an Anti-Human Trafficking Housing Program
Office for Victims of Crime-Sponsored, June 2022
Evaluability Assessment of a Metropolitan Network Service Delivery Model to Connect Trafficked Persons with a Full Range of Victim Services, Final Research Report
National Institute of Justice-Sponsored, June 2022
Recommendations for Practitioners Evaluation of the Enhanced Collaborative Model Task Forces to Combat Human Trafficking
National Institute of Justice-Sponsored, June 2022
Federally Backed Human Trafficking Task Force Model Yields Progress, Opportunities for Continued Growth
National Institute of Justice, January 2022
Federally Backed Human Trafficking Task Force Model Yields Progress, and Opportunities for Continued Growth
National Institute of Justice, January 2022
National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking
U.S. Department of Justice, January 2022
The National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking
The White House, December 2021
Report to Congress on Practices to Better Combat Trafficking in Persons to Reduce the Risk of Trafficking in Post-Conflict or Post-Disaster Areas
U.S. Department of State, April 2021
Human-Trafficking Offenses Handled by State Attorneys General Offices, 2018
Bureau of Justice Statistics, March 2021
Study Revealed Safe Harbor Laws Increased Protections for Sex-Trafficked Youth, Identified Needs for Agency Support and Judicial Training
National Institute of Justice, March 2021
The Office for Victims of Crime: An Ongoing Commitment to Victims of Human Trafficking
Office for Victims of Crime, January 2021
Attorney General's Annual Report to Congress on U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons
U.S. Department of Justice, Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2020
2020 Report on U.S. Government Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons
U.S. Department of State, October 2020
United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking Annual Report 2020
United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, July 2020
Notes from the Field: Reducing the Need for Victim Testimony in Human Trafficking Cases
National Institute of Justice, June 2020
Notes from the Field: Emphasizing a Victim-Centered Approach in Human Trafficking Prosecutions
National Institute of Justice, May 2020
Notes from the Field: Collaboration Is Key in Human Trafficking Investigations
National Institute of Justice, March 2020
Multidisciplinary Collaborative Model for Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces: Development and Operational Roadmap
Bureau of Justice Assistance- and Office for Victims of Crime-Sponsored, 2020
Related Resources
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): Human Trafficking
The FBI works to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats and to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, including human trafficking.
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS): Addressing Human Trafficking
This collection of COPS Office resources highlights promising practices that law enforcement can use to address human trafficking.
President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
A cabinet-level entity created by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, this task force consists of 20 agencies across the federal government responsible for coordinating U.S. government-wide efforts to combat trafficking in persons.
U.S. Department of Justice: Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS)
CEOS works to combat incidences of child exploitation and the trafficking of women and children.
U.S. Department of Justice: Human Trafficking
This website highlights Department of Justice activities associated with the prevention of human trafficking, efforts to better serve trafficking victims, and collaborations to more efficiently investigate and prosecute traffickers.
U.S. Department of Justice: Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit (HTPU)
HTPU prosecutors work closely with Assistant United States Attorneys and law enforcement agencies to streamline fast-moving trafficking investigations, ensure consistent application of trafficking statutes, and identify multijurisdictional trafficking networks.
U.S. Department of State: Human Smuggling and Trafficking
Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) special agents, investigators, and analysts work in more than 270 U.S. embassies and consulates in more than 170 countries, frequently putting DSS at the epicenter of transnational criminal investigations, including those involving human smuggling and trafficking. DSS field offices throughout the United States partner with U.S. federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies on multi-agency anti-trafficking task forces to investigate these crimes.
U.S. Department of State: Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (P.L. 106-386), adopted in October 2000, provides the tools to combat trafficking in persons, both worldwide and domestically. The Act authorized the establishment of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): Human Trafficking
The mission of the ICE Human Trafficking Unit is to identify, both domestically and internationally, criminal individuals and organizations involved in human smuggling and trafficking and destroy their ability to operate by using the full range of resources, capabilities, and authorities available to ICE.