RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Labor trafficking in North Carolina.
Sheldon Zhang and others: $777,000, National Institute of Justice.
Measuring modern slavery in the Indian state of Bihar.
Sheldon Zhang and others: $617,000. This project consisted of three parts: (1) Prevalence estimation of the worst forms of child labor in Bihar (a peer-reviewed journal paper can be found here); (2) Prevalence estimation of bonded labor in Bihar; and Prevalence estimation of sex trafficking in Bihar’s sex work industry (a peer-reviewed journal paper can be found here).
Understanding and measuring bias victimization against Latinos.
Sheldon Zhang (site PI for San Diego) and others: $200,000, National Institute of Justice.
Annual Rapid Assessment of Consumer Knowledge (RACK) survey among people who inject drugs.
Wilson Palacios and others: $60,000 annually, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Peer health education and needle-exchange program for people who inject drugs.
Wilson Palacios and others: $130,000, multiple federal agencies.
Criminal justice responses to the mentally ill in Boston and Lowell.
Melissa Morabito and others: $275,000, Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Inequities in the court processing of racial and ethnic minorities.
Pauline Brennan: $150,000, National Institute of Corrections and other sources.
Unaccompanied minor refugees’ experiences of smuggling and waiting for asylum decisions.
Amber Horning-Ruf: $40,000, Swedish Ministry of Culture and university seed grant.
Creation of a human trafficking screening and health risk assessment tool for use by the court system.
Amber Horning-Ruf: university seed grant.
Minority perceptions of procedural justice and immigrant women’s views of police legitimacy.
Joselyne Chenane and Teresa Gonzales (sociology): new faculty support and university seed grant.