Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities, 2021

1 Department of JusticeOffice of Justice ProgramsBureau of Justice StatisticsDATA Collection PROFILEO ctober 2021, NCJ 302732 Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities, 2021 The Combat Human Trafficking Act of 2015 (CHTA) (34 20709(e)) requires the director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to prepare an annual report on Human Trafficking . The report must include information on the following: arrests for Human - Trafficking offenses by state lawenforcement officers prosecutions of individuals in state courts for Human - Trafficking offenses convictions of individuals in state courts forhuman- Trafficking offenses sentences imposed on individuals convicted in statecourts for Human - Trafficking examined options to modify its existing data collections and implement new approaches to collect the data required by CHTA.

2 In addition, BJS assessed the availability of data on Human Trafficking among criminal justice agencies at the federal, state, tribal, and local Collection , ANALYSIS, AND PROGRAMMATIC ACTIVITIES DURING 2020 AND 2021 VictimizationThe National Survey of Victim Service Providers (NSVSP), conducted in 2019, was administered to a nationally representative sample of Victim Service Providers (VSPs). This inaugural effort gathered data from a broad array of VSPs, a relatively understudied source of information on victims of crime and the services available to assist them.

3 Based on the practices and experiences of their organizations during the previous year, VSPs were asked to provide information on organizational resources required to provide servicesto crime victims types of services provided to crime victims characteristics of victims who received services characteristics and background of staff who providedservices to victims organizational policies and practices of addition, VSPs provided data on how many sex Trafficking and labor Trafficking victims received services and on the demographic characteristics (sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age) of the Trafficking victims are a primary source of data on how victims are referred for services ( , from the police, a hospital, or other sources), the services victims sought and received, the cost of those services, and the source that funded service delivery.

4 Collecting information on the staffing, funding, and resource allocation of VSPs is essential to describing the types and level of support available for crime victims. Administrative data from VSPs also provide characteristics of hard-to-reach victim populations ( , victims of hate crimes or Human Trafficking ), such as the type of services requested and received by those victim groups and the number of victims receiving NSVSP sample was selected using a single-stage stratified design to produce national estimates, state-level estimates for the states with the largest number of VSPs, and subnational estimates based on geographical Census Bureau regions.

5 The sampling frame was constructed from an initial list of VSPs from the National Census of Victim Service Providers (NCVSP).1 Using data from NCVSP, VSPs were classified into five major types: government-based; nonprofit or faith-based; hospital, medical, or emergency; campus or educational; and tribal. In October 2021, BJS published the findings 1 For more information on the NCVSP, see Trafficking DATA Collection ACTIVITIES, 2021 | OCTOBER 2021from the NSVSP in Services for Crime Victims, 2019 (NCJ 300741, BJS, October 2021). A forthcoming dataset at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data will include information on services for victims of Human enforcementThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is required to collect Human - Trafficking data under the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.

6 As a result, the FBI established the Human Trafficking (UCR-HT) data Collection as part of its Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program in program collects data on Human Trafficking based on the following definitions: Commercial sex acts which is inducing a person by force, fraud, or coercion to participate in commercial sex acts, or in which the person induced to perform such act(s) has not attained 18 years of age. Involuntary servitude which is obtaining of a person(s) through recruitment, harboring, transportation, or provision, and subjecting such persons by force, fraud, or coercion into involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery (not to include commercial sex acts).

7 State UCR programs and local law enforcement agencies that participate in this Collection provide counts of offenses, case clearances, and arrests for Human Trafficking for the purpose of commercial sex acts or involuntary servitude. Law enforcement agencies document these Human - Trafficking offenses in their record management systems (RMS). Participating agencies then report that information to their state UCR programs, which aggregate the data submitted by participating agencies in the state, then send those data to the state UCR programs and local law enforcement agencies are unable to collect data on Human Trafficking through their RMS.

8 Data collected by the FBI represent only Human - Trafficking offenses and arrests submitted by states and agencies with the ability to record and report them. Consequently, the information available through the UCR-HT understates the full scope of Human - Trafficking offenses known to local law the past several years, participation in the UCR-HT has grown, with the number of reporting states increasing from 37 in 2015 to 47 in 2020 (figure 1). In 2020, 42 states reported at least one Human - Trafficking offense related to commercial sex acts to UCR-HT, and 35 states reported at least one Human - Trafficking offense related to involuntary number of arrests reported for Human Trafficking involving involuntary servitude increased from 66 in 2015 to 146 in 2019 before declining to 92 in 2020 (figure 2).

9 Reported arrests for Human Trafficking involving commercial sex acts increased from 684 in 2015 to 880 in 2016 before declining to 301 in 1 Number of states reporting to Uniform Crime Reporting- Human Trafficking (UCR-HT), by offense type, 2015-2020 Number of states0102030405020202019201820172016201 5 Total reporting statesTotal reporting statesInvoluntary servitudeInvoluntary servitudeCommercial sex actsCommercial sex actsNote: Excludes submissions from territories and from states in which data were submitted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs only. Counts for commercial sex acts and involuntary servitude indicate the number of states reporting at least one of those offenses in the applicable : Adapted from Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting- Human Trafficking , table 1, 2 Arrests for Human Trafficking , by offense type, 2015-2020 Number of arrests015030045060075090020202019201820 1720162015 Involuntary servitudeInvoluntary servitudeCommercial sex actsCommercial sex actsNote.

10 Excludes submissions from territories and from states in which data were submitted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs : Adapted from Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting- Human Trafficking , table 2, Trafficking DATA Collection ACTIVITIES, 2021 | OCTOBER 2021Of the 47 states that participated in the UCR-HT in 2020, 31 states reported at least one Human - Trafficking arrest (map 1). Nineteen states had between 1 and 10 arrests for Human Trafficking involving commercial sex acts in 2020. Two states (Texas and Georgia) reported more than 25 arrests for Human Trafficking involving commercial sex acts that year.