Rachel Swaner, Elise White, Kathleen Krieger, Rebecca Pfeffer, Camille Gourdet, Jennifer Hardison Walters, Samantha Charm2022-01-072022-01-072021Swaner, R., White, E., Krieger, K., Pfeffer, R., Gourdet, C., Walters, J. H., & Charm, S. (2021). Legal Responses to Trafficking: Evaluability Assessments of Five Programs. Washington, DC: Center for Court Innovation and RTI International.https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/303604.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/5302For any of these programs to coalesce around a coherent, feasible, and nationally replicable model, policymakers have an urgent need for credible scientific information on their efficacy. To better understand these types of initiatives and determine whether and how evaluation could shed light on what works (or does not work) and why, in 2019, the National Institute of Justice awarded a grant to the Center for Court Innovation and RTI International to conduct evaluability assessments of five programs that serve human trafficking victimdefendants at key decision-making points along the criminal justice system continuum: arrest (police), prosecution (district attorney), and sentencing (court). An evaluability assessment helps identify whether a full program evaluation is justified, feasible, and likely to provide useful information. It indicates whether programs could be meaningfully evaluated and whether the findings would help improve the programs and contribute to the field. The findings from this foundational research study serve as an important first step toward future research to assess the effectiveness of these or similar diversion programs for trafficking victims.en-USresearchvictim-defendantscourttraffickingprogram evaluationArticle