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Addressing Community Gang Problems: A Model for Problem Solving, (NCJ 156059), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. A model is presented to assist local communities in addressing gang problems by focusing on a comprehensive strategy for preventing and controlling drug trafficking and related violent crime by street gangs.   Text   PDF

Addressing Community Gang Problems: A Practical Guide, (NCJ 164273), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1998. A community problem-solving model applicable to gangs is described that is referred to as SARA (scanning, analysis, response, and assessment) and that considers gang involvement in drugs and violence, graffiti, needs assessment, strategic planning, and civil remedies for gang-related harm.   Text   PDF

Addressing Foreclosed and Abandoned Properties, (NCJ 230184), Bureau of Justice Assistance, April 2010. This fact sheet offers an array of ideas to address vacant and abandoned properties. The strategies in this guide—which have been culled from real-life approaches across the U.S.—are intended to assist law enforcement and government agencies seeking to prevent property abandonment and lessen problems-such crime and increased demand for municipal services-when abandonment occurs.   PDF

Addressing Hate Crimes: Six Initiatives That Are Enhancing the Efforts of Criminal Justice Practitioners, (NCJ 179559), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Stephen Wessler, 2000. This monograph describes six initiatives for preventing and responding to hate crimes.   Text   PDF

Annual Report to Congress: Creating A Safer America, Fiscal Year 2000, (NCJ 187302), Bureau of Justice Assistance, July 2001. This annual report describes the mission, goals, and structure of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the funding and technical assistance that BJA provided to State and local criminal justice systems in fiscal year 2000 to support initiatives in every area of the justice system.   Text   PDF

Assessing and Managing the Terrorism Threat, (NCJ 210680), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Joel Leson, September 2005. Presents the essential components of risk assessment and management, including criticality, threat, and vulnerability assessments, countermeasure identification, risk calculation, and critical infrastructure and key asset inventory. This monograph, one of four Promising Practices Briefs from the Post 9-11 Policing Project, discusses the challenging demands on law enforcement to effectively and efficiently collect, assess, disseminate, and act on intelligence information regarding transnational and domestic terrorist threats.   PDF

Assessment of the Feasibility of Drug Night Courts, (NCJ 142415), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1993. This national survey sought to determine whether cities other than Chicago had experience with running drug court sessions at night. Respondents were asked whether they currently or ever operated courtrooms at night and whether they had ever considered night operations.   Text   PDF

Avoiding Failures of Implementation: Lessons from Process Evaluations, (NCJ 231663) Bureau of Justice Assistance, June 2009. This paper examines failures that occur during the implementation of new initiatives and seeks to identify common sources of failure and to develop a basic list of considerations that may help criminal justice reformers avoid future pitfalls.   PDF

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Back on Track: A Problem-Solving Reentry Court, (FS 000316), Bureau of Justice Assistance, September 2009. This fact sheet discusses Back on Track, a promising approach for prosecutors nationwide who want to redirect low-level, nonaddicted drug sellers away from incarceration and into productive, crime-free lives.   PDF   HTML

Benchmarks for Developing a Law Enforcement Pandemic Flu Plan, (NCJ 229056) Bureau of Justice Assistance, October 2009. This document is an interactive guide for law enforcement executives to help them navigate through the public health emergency planning process.   PDF

Beyond Big Cities: The Problem-Solving Innovations of Community Prosecutors in Smaller Jurisdictions, (NCJ 213474), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Robert Wolf, Nicole Campbell, 2004. The experiences of the smaller jurisdictions described in this paper show that community prosecution is not only needed in smaller communities, but can also be adapted to fit the area needs.   PDF

BJA 2008 Annual Report to Congress, (NCJ 228734), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2010. This annual report describes the mission and goals of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the funding and technical assistance that BJA provided to state and local criminal justice systems in fiscal year 2008 to support initiatives in every area of the justice system.   HTML

BJA 2009 Annual Report to Congress: Solutions for Safer Communities, (NCJ 230348), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2010. This annual report describes the mission, goals, and structure of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the funding and technical assistance that BJA provided to State and local criminal justice systems in fiscal year 2009 to support initiatives in every area of the justice system.   PDF

BJA Firearms Trafficking Program: Demonstrating Effective Strategies to Control Violent Crime, (NCJ 166818), Bureau of Justice Assistance, John Stedman, John Veen, Melissa Reuland, Stacie Dunbar, 1997. This bulletin describes the Bureau of Justice Assistance's (BJA) Firearms Trafficking Program, which was created in fiscal year 1993 to address the firearms trafficking problem in the United States.   Text   PDF

BJA/PERF Body Armor National Survey: Protecting the Nation's Law Enforcement Officers, Phase II Final Report, (NCJ 229250) Bureau of Justice Assistance, September 2009. This document provides the results of a survey conducted in 2007 with a large, nationally representative sample of law enforcement agencies about policies and practices regarding body armor.   PDF

Bolder Management for Public Defense: Leadership in Three Dimensions, (NCJ 187768), Cait Clarke, Christopher Stone, November 2001. The BJA Public Defense bulletin series provides a discussion of the issues confronting indigent defense attorneys to explore new ways for professionals in the field to serve their clients and society.   Text   PDF

Boys & Girls Clubs of America Fact Sheet, (FS 000263), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2000. The Boys and Girls Clubs of America is a nationwide network that helps children from all backgrounds develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens and leaders.   Text   PDF

Building a Better Criminal Justice System: Annual Report to Congress Fiscal Year 1999, (NCJ 182954), Bureau of Justice Assistance, June 2000. This report describes funding and technical assistance the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) provided to State and local criminal justice systems in fiscal year (FY) 1999.   Text   PDF

Building an Offender Reentry Program: A Guide for Law Enforcement, (NCJ 219079), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2007. This guide provides comprehensive information for law enforcement on law enforcement’s role in offender reentry and current state of practice examples highlighting law enforcement agencies’ engaged in offender reentry.   PDF

Building and Crossing Bridges: Refugees and Law Enforcement Working Together, (NCJ 150047), Bureau of Justice Assistance, National Crime Prevention Council Washington, 1994. This book is designed for refugee and law enforcement communities who need to work together in dealing with members of other cultures and in developing programs that will enhance action in their communities.   Text   PDF

Building Exchange Content Using the Global Justice XML Data Model: A User Guide for Practitioners and Developers, (NCJ 233416), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2005. This User Guide provides information about Global Justice XML Data Model tools, resources, partners, terminology, and documentation.   PDF

Building Relationships Between Police and the Vietnamese Community in Roanoke, Virginia, (NCJ 185778), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Garry Coventry, Ph.D., Kelly Dedel Johnson, Ph.D., 2001. This bulletin describes building relationships between police and the Vietnamese community in Roanoke, VA.   Text   PDF

Bulletproof Vest Partnership Initiative, (FS 000368), Bureau of Justice Assistance, June 2011. This fact sheet describes the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program, a U.S. Department of Justice initiative designed to provide critical resources to state, local, and tribal jurisdictions for the sole purpose of purchasing bullet-resistant body armor for sworn law enforcement officers.   PDF

Bureau of Justice Assistance Annual Report Fiscal Year 1994, (NCJ 157663), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1995. This report describes the activities of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) in fiscal year 1994, with emphasis on the crime prevention and crime control programs it funded during the year.   PDF

Bureau of Justice Assistance Annual Report Fiscal Year 1995, (NCJ 161417), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1996. The fiscal year 1995 annual report of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) summarizes the bureau's grant-related activities and crime control initiatives.   Text   PDF

Bureau of Justice Assistance Annual Report Fiscal Year 1996, (NCJ 168621), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. The fiscal year 1996 annual report of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) details plans and progress of the BJA and projects sponsored by the BJA to reduce crime, violence, and drug abuse and to improve the criminal justice system.   Text   PDF

Bureau of Justice Assistance Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1997, (NCJ 171697), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1998. This 1997 fiscal year Annual Report of the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Assistance focuses on the activities of BJA's mission to provide leadership, funding, training, and technical assistance to support local criminal justice strategies to achieve strong neighborhoods and safe communities.   Text   PDF

Bureau of Justice Assistance Evaluation Web Site; The First Year: An Annual Report, (NCJ 181250), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1999. The Bureau of Justice Assistance's (BJA's) Evaluation Web Site is committed to building State and local evaluation capacity; the BJA will continue to develop the Evaluation Web Site to meet the needs of criminal justice planners and practitioners well into the 21st century.   PDF

Business Alliance: Planning for Business and Community Partnerships, (NCJ 148657), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1994. This monograph presents steps for planning business and community partnerships developed under the Business Alliance pilot programs in Florida, which are designed to help disadvantaged communities improve economic self-sufficiency and stimulate entrepreneurship.   Text

Business Planning Guide for Jail Industries, (NCJ 165147), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Rod Miller, Tom Quirk, August 2002. Identifies key elements of a business plan that communicates why a jail program does or should exist and its potential benefits to inmates, other programs, and the community. Competitive analysis, products and services offered, marketing and promotion, pricing strategy, and budgets are among the many topics examined in this BJA Monograph. It also describes control procedures to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the program and includes worksheets on creating an evaluation plan, obtaining startup funds, implementing a pilot study, and expanding into full operations.   Text   PDF

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Center for Task Force Training (CenTF) Program Fact Sheet, (FS 000252), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1999. Provides information about the availability of specialized training for law enforcement personnel serving on drug task forces. This program strives to increase the operational effectiveness of task forces in two areas, task force command and management and methamphetamine investigation management.   Text   PDF

Center for Task Force Training (CenTF) Program, (NCJ 192177), Bureau of Justice Assistance, May 2002. Describes the BJA-funded Center for Task Force Training (CenTF) Program that provides specialized training for law enforcement personnel who serve on narcotics task forces funded by either the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance formula grants or state and local funds. Coordinated by the Institute for Intergovernmental Research, the CenTF program offers training classes to increase the operational effectiveness of multijurisdictional narcotic task forces in the areas of task force command and management, methamphetamine investigation management, and raves/club drug awareness.   PDF   HTML

Changing Nature of Prosecution: Community Prosecution vs. Traditional Prosecution Approaches, (NCJ 207696), Bureau of Justice Assistance, M. Elaine Nugent, Patricia Fanflik, Delene Bromirski, February 2004. In attempting to frame any practical and philosophical differences between traditional and community prosecution, the survey focused on key elements of community prosecution, similarities and differences between offices that practice community prosecution and those that do not, and perceptions about different prosecutorial roles and desired outcomes.   PDF

Chelsea, Massachusetts: A City Helps Its Diverse People Get Along, (NCJ 179866), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Chadwick Bash, Maria Amato, Michele Sacks, 2000. This report describes the development, characteristics, and effectiveness of Chelsea's (Massachusetts) Conflict Intervention Unit (CIU), which was created to determine whether individuals from the community could be trained to help people solve the conflicts that often escalate into assaults or litigation.   Text   PDF

Citizen Corps, (NCJ 203669), Bureau of Justice Assistance, June 2004. Citizen Corps is a nationwide program that promotes volunteer activities that support community safety and homeland security. Citizen Corps programs and partners build on the successful efforts that are in place in many communities across the United States to prevent crime and respond to emergencies. Programs that started through local innovation are the foundation of Citizen Corps.   PDF   HTML

Civil Gang Injunctions: A Guide for Prosecutors, (NCJ 227644), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2009. This monograph describes the innovative use of gang injunctions, pioneered by the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, to reduce the spread of gang-related criminal activity.   PDF

Cold Case Squads: Leaving No Stone Unturned, (NCJ 199781), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Rachel Kosa, Ryan Turner, July 2003. Describes the workings of cold case squads used by police departments to investigate unsolved homicides in which the trail of evidence has grown cold. The squads review, revive, and continue the investigation of murder cases in which the lead detective initially assigned to the case has retired or been transferred. This bulletin describes the varying make up of cold case squads, the importance having the right personnel, the use of external resources in the course of their investigations, and the process by which cases are reviewed.   PDF   HTML

Combating Methamphetamine Abuse, (FS 000318), Bureau of Justice Assistance, October 2009. This fact sheet describes resources available to communities to address meth abuse, including prevention and education programs, as well as support for enforcement efforts including investigative strategies and state and local drug task forces.   PDF   HTML

Communication and Public Health Emergencies: A Guide for Law Enforcement, (NCJ 228126), Bureau of Justice Assistance, July 2009. This guide identifies important considerations for law enforcement executives seeking to develop or enhance communication plans for public health emergencies, including internal communications (within the agency) and external communications (those going out to other agencies and the public).   PDF

Community Courts: An Evolving Model, (NCJ 183452), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Eric Lee, October 2000. This monograph examines the community court movement and the role of the community court in a community’s daily life.   Text   PDF

Community Justice in Rural America: Four Examples and Four Futures, (NCJ 182437), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2001. This monograph describes how community justice grows in response to the unique needs it serves.   Text   PDF

Community Policing and D.A.R.E.: A Practitioner's Perspective, (NCJ 154275), Bureau of Justice Assistance, David L. Carter, 1995. Two community-based initiatives are evaluated, community policing and the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program.   Text   PDF

Community Prosecution Strategies, Monograph, (NCJ 195062), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Cheryl Irons-Guynn, Doris Weiland, John S. Goldkamp, August 2003. Describes the philosophy behind community prosecution which presents a distinct departure from the case and conviction orientation of traditional prosecution and adopts the belief that local crime problems can best be resolved by engaging community members in their solutions.   Text   PDF

Community Prosecution Strategies: Measuring Impact, (NCJ 192826), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Cheryl Irons-Guynn, Doris Weiland, John S. Goldkamp, November 2002. Describes the philosophy behind community prosecution which presents a distinct departure from the case and conviction orientation of traditional prosecution and adopts the belief that local crime problems can best be resolved by engaging community members in their solutions. This bulletin discusses the history of community prosecution and the strategies employed by the nation’s 18 community prosecution sites. The emphasis is on placing prosecutors in the community whose primary responsibility is to address crime problems in specific neighborhoods or other geographic areas with the goal of directly improving their residents’ quality of life.   PDF   HTML

Community-Oriented Investigation at the North Miami Beach Police Department, (NCJ 185367), Bureau of Justice Assistance, David Singh, 2001. The North Miami Beach, FL, Police Department made changes in the mid-1990’s that marked the emergence of community-oriented investigation as a new form of policing for the 21st century.   Text   PDF

Comprehensive Communities Program: A Unique Way to Reduce Crime and Enhance Public Safety, (FS 000267), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2001. The CCP uses a simple approach that brings together people most affected by crime problems, gives each stakeholder a meaningful role in solving problems, and applies a deliberate planning and implementation process.   Text   PDF

Comprehensive Communities Program: Program Account, (NCJ 184955), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2001. This bulletin discusses issues that individual stakeholders must confront as they work together toward crime reduction and a better quality of life.   Text   PDF

Comprehensive Communities Program: Promising Approaches, (NCJ 184956), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2001. This monograph describes successful community programs to reduce crime and increase public safety.   Text   PDF

Conducted Energy Devices: Development of Standards for Consistency and Guidance, (NCJ 217500), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2007. These recommended guidelines and glossary of CED terms were developed by the Police Executive Research Forum, with funding from BJA and the COPS Office, to address some of the concerns about proper use of these devices.   PDF

Conducted Energy Devices: Use in a Custodial Setting, (NCJ 228288), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2009. The report presents findings from a survey of sheriffs' offices on their use of conducted energy devices (CEDs.) The report discusses procedures and policies on CEDs and provides guidelines for the use of CEDs and other electronic devices in custodial settings.   PDF

Conducting a Felony Caseflow Management Review: A Practical Guide, (NCJ 231115), Bureau of Justice Assistance, May 2010. This guide provides brief descriptions of fundamental elements of effective caseflow management systems and effective felony case management practices, and presents a methodology for assessing the extent to which a court's felony caseflow management system incorporates the elements and effective practices described in the first section. The appendices provide guidance for conducting effective interviews, suggested interview questions, recommended statistical data to be collected, and an analytical checklist to facilitate comparison of existing practices to those known to characterize effective systems.   PDF

Connecticut's Alternative Sanctions Program: $619 Million Saved in Estimated Capital and Operating Costs, (NCJ 172870), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1998. Connecticut has established alternative sanction options for almost every offender who does not have to be in prison, such options include alternatives to incarceration centers (AICs), a community service labor program, electronic monitoring, day incarceration, and other programs for youth and adults.   Text   PDF

Contracting for Indigent Defense Services: A Special Report, (NCJ 181160), Bureau of Justice Assistance, The Spangenberg Group, 2000. Written for individuals in the justice system who are using, considering, or implementing an indigent defense contract system, this report presents the major judicial and legislative attempts to deal with those systems, examines the best and worst features of contract systems, and discusses the national standards that govern contract systems.   Text   PDF

Coordinated Implementation of Community Response Measures (Including Social Distancing) to Control the Spread of Pandemic Respiratory Disease: A Guide for Developing an MOU for Public Health, Law Enforcement, Corrections, and the Judiciary, BJA-Sponsored, July 2008. Developed to guide local, state, and tribal jurisdictions in the development of cross-sector pandemic influenza operating plans, this document is intended to improve the effectiveness of communitywide measures to control pandemic influenza, and describes the approach to developing an MOU and its necessary components.   PDF

Creating a New Criminal Justice System for the 21st Century: Findings and Results From State and Local Program Evaluations, (NCJ 178936), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2000. This monograph describes and evaluates programs to improve criminal justice systems in Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Hampshire, Oregon, Illinois, Utah, and Oklahoma and provides summary evaluations of State and local multijurisdictional task forces funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.   Text   PDF

Crime Prevention and Community Policing: A Vital Partnership, (NCJ 166819), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. This monograph examines ways in which community crime prevention and community policing are linked, both philosophically and operationally.   Text

Criminal Courts Technical Assistance Project, (NCJ 185780), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Joseph A. Trotter, Jr., 2001. This report describes the services and summarizes the publications of the Criminal Courts Technical Assistance Project (CCTAP) funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to serve criminal courts and related adjudication system agencies.   Text   PDF

Criminal Intelligence Resources Guide, (NCJ 235294), Bureau of Justice Assistance, June 2011. This edition of the Global Highlights features the newly-released Criminal Intelligence Resources Guide. Developed by the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council and its research arm, the Global Intelligence Working Group, the document provides practitioners an easily-accessible representation of the Global-recommended intelligence tools and includes links and instructions for ordering featured resources.   PDF

Critical Elements in the Planning, Development, and Implementation of Successful Correctional Options, (NCJ 168966), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Ann Schwartzman, Franklin C. Farrow, George E. Sexton James Austin, Patricia L Hardyman, Lawrence H. Albert, Robert H. Lawson, 1998. Experience with the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Correctional Options Demonstration Program indicates prudently managed, cost-conscious correctional interventions have several similar characteristics.   Text   PDF

Cultural Revolution: Transforming the Public Defender's Office, (NCJ 193773), Bureau of Justice Assistance, David Feige, Robin Steinberg, August 2002. Presents the third in a series of papers developed by members of the Executive Session on Public Defense during meetings at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Robin Steinberg, Executive Director of the Bronx Defenders, and David Feige, Supervising Trial Attorney of the Bronx Defenders, discuss the most basic values of the public defender culture in order to reevaluate these values. They further suggest ways in which public defender managers can move an office from a traditional model to one that is more holistic and client-centered.   Text   PDF

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Daring to Fail: First-Person Stories of Criminal Justice Reform, (NCJ 233452), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2010. With support from BJA, the Center for Court Innovation has released Daring to Fail: First-Person Stories of Criminal Justice Reform, a collection of interviews with leading criminal justice thinkers and policymakers that offers valuable lessons about leadership, management, and innovation.   PDF

Day Laborer Hiring Sites: Constructive Approaches to Community Conflict, (NCJ 188914), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Jill Esbenshade, Robin Toma, 2001. This manual presents the results of the first national survey ever conducted of day laborer hiring projects. Based on in-depth interviews, it endeavors to distill the collective wisdom of practitioners throughout the country who have successfully managed community conflicts concerning day laborers.   PDF

Defining Drug Courts: The Key Components, (NCJ 205621), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2004. This report presents 10 key components that describe the basic elements that characterize effective drug courts.   PDF

Defining Fusion Center Technology Business Processes: A Tool for Planning, (NCJ 233417), Bureau of Justice Assistance, April 2009. This tool consists of a methodology for creating and documenting business processes, templates for both the process and capabilities that support the process, and important reference material. While this effort was in progress, the working group was expanded to include four fusion center practitioners to provide additional review and perspective.   PDF

Defining the Problem, (NCJ 179623), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Robert Wolf, January 1999. This paper discusses the importance of and procedures for obtaining data about community problems that determine the focus of a community justice project, which is intended to provide problem solving resources for the community.   PDF

Denial of Federal Benefits Program and Clearinghouse, (NCJ 193770), Bureau of Justice Assistance, July 2002. Describes the BJA-administered Denial of Federal Benefits Program, which provides state and federal courts with the sentencing option to deny all or selected federal benefits to individuals convicted of drug trafficking or drug possession. This program helps ensure that individuals found guilty of violating the Controlled Substances Act will, at the very least, forfeit their claims to most taxpayer-supported economic benefits. In addition, the Denial of Federal Benefits Program Clearinghouse maintains a complete listing of the benefits denied to each individual sentenced under the program to assist federal agencies.   PDF   HTML

Desktop Guide for Tribal Probation Personnel: The Screening and Assessment Process, (NCJ 234463), BJA and the American Probation & Parole Association, May 2011. This guide is intended to provide tribal probation personnel with information on how the screening and assessment process can facilitate and promote offender accountability and long-term behavior change.   PDF

Developing a Jail Industry: A Workbook, (NCJ 182506), Bureau of Justice Assistance, George Sexton, Rod Miller, Vic Jacobsen, August 2002. Offers a starting point for county officials, jail staff, and advisory committees interested in creating and/or improving a jail industry. This BJA Monograph emphasizes the value of the development process in creating and/or improving a jail industry by identifying six principles of success: building a strong foundation, learning from others, analyzing potential opposition, gaining support through participation, taking time to plan, and using all available resources. It also contains a workbook of specific ideas and guidance on a 15-component development process and lists potential benefits, obstacles, and opportunities of a jail industry.   Text   PDF

Developing an Evaluation Plan for Community Courts: Assessing the Hartford Community Court Model, (NCJ 185689), Bureau of Justice Assistance, July 2001. This monograph assesses the Hartford Community Court model for developing an evaluation plan for community courts.   Text   PDF

Differentiated Case Management: Implementation Manual, (NCJ 142416), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Caroline Cooper, Holly Bakke, Maureen Solomon, 1993. This guide focuses on issues that must be addressed by jurisdictions that plan to implement a differentiated case management program.   Text   PDF

Differentiated Case Management: Program Brief, (NCJ 140189), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1993. This manual provides guidance for the implementation of differentiated court case management (DCM).   Text   PDF

Diversity Series: Religions, Cultures, and Communities, (NCJ 212664), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2006. Explores some of the many religions and cultures with which law enforcement officials come into contact. Each video clip offers tips on working with people of different faiths and backgrounds, including suggestions for inoffensive law enforcement techniques.   HTML

Domestic and Family Violence: Highlighted Programs From the State Annual Reports, (NCJ 150549), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Andrea G. Richards, Tara L. O Connor, 1994. This report describes innovative programs funded by the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance and developed and implemented by the States to prevent, detect, and address domestic assault.   Text

Double Duty: A Guidebook for Families of Deployed Law Enforcement Officers, (NCJ 237164) BJA and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), November 2011. The family guidebook focuses on the families of military veterans in law enforcement. The guide will not only help families understand their obligations and expectations through the deployment cycle, but will detail the interaction that their spouses will experience between the military and law enforcement communities. Information on what law enforcement agencies can do to support the families of their deployed officers is also included. It is encouraged that law enforcement leaders provide this guide to the families of Guard and Reserve service members in their agency.   PDF

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Fact Sheet, (FS 000039), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1995. This fact sheet describes DARE's program objectives, curriculum, and critical elements.   Text   PDF

Drug Court Case Management: Role, Function, and Utility, (NCJ 216073), National Drug Court Institute, June 2006. Demonstrates the centrality of case management in drug courts; describes the role, functions, principles, knowledge, and skills of drug court case managers; encourages critical review of existing drug court case management services; and provides guidance in establishing data collection, information management, and evaluation practices for case management in a drug court setting.   PDF

Drug Court Judicial Benchbook, (NCJ 235505), Bureau of Justice Assistance, February 2011. This benchbook presents a wealth of information for new judges considering starting a drug court, as well as for veteran judges looking to retool or tune-up their operations. Within these pages rests the collective knowledge and wisdom of thousands of judges, attorneys, treatment providers, probation officers, law enforcement officers, and research scholars.   PDF

Drug Court Monitoring, Evaluation, and Management Information Systems, (NCJ 171138), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1998. This report presents the best thinking of drug court practitioners and experts regarding the importance of data collection and management information systems to drug court daily operation, as well as to drug court process and impact evaluations.   HTML

Drug Court Monitoring, Evaluation, and Management Information Systems: National Scope Needs Assessment, (NCJ 195077), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2003. Provides the results of an assessment conducted as part of the National Drug Court Training and Technical Assistance Program. The objective of this report is to help drug court practitioners and stakeholders capture the best practices of the current programs and share them nationwide to ensure that future drug courts achieve the same success rates. To bolster drug court capabilities, this survey identifies the specific resources and knowledge required to collect the data needed to effectively manage, monitor, and evaluate drug courts and provides a summary of its findings and recommendations.   Text   PDF

Drug Courts: An Effective Strategy for Communities Facing Methamphetamine, (NCJ 209549), Bureau of Justice Assistance, C. West Huddleston III, May 2005. This Bulletin provides an overview of the debilitating effects of methamphetamine, the program components of a drug court, examples of successful drug court programs in areas deeply affected by methamphetamine use, and policy recommendations for implementing a drug court that will target a methamphetamine-using population.   PDF

Drug Night Courts: How Feasible Are They? Assessing Cook County's Example, (NCJ 142725), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Arthur J. Lurigio, Barbara E. Smith, Robert C. Davis, Sharon R. Goretsky, Susan J. Popkin, July 1993. This paper presents the results of an evaluation of Cook County's (Illinois) drug night court, which is designed to relieve overburdened court facilities without the cost of building new court buildings.   PDF

Drug Night Courts: The Cook County Experience, (NCJ 147185), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1994. The Bureau of Justice Assistance sponsored a research inquiry into the establishment of extra-hours courts for special purposes, and specifically, the establishment of drug night courts, focusing on the drug night court in Cook County, Illinois.   Text

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Early Experiences With Criminal History Records Improvement, (NCJ 152977), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. After discussing the background of the multiyear Criminal History Records Improvement (CHRI) Program, this monograph reports on the methodology and findings of an evaluation of the CHRI Program, offering recommendations to guide future criminal history records improvement.   Text   PDF

East Bay Public Safety Corridor Partnership: A Voluntary Regional Collaboration in Northern California, (NCJ 165695), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. The East Bay Partnership in the Oakland-San Francisco Bay area, spurred by an alarming rise in homicides committed by and against young people, involves regional collaboration and community policing.   Text   PDF

Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance (Fiscal Year 2001), (FS 000273), Bureau of Justice Assistance, July 2001. Through the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program (the Byrne Program), the Bureau of Justice Assistance provides leadership and guidance on crime and violence prevention and works in partnership with state and local governments to make communities safe and improve criminal justice systems.   Text   PDF

Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program: Fiscal Year 2002, (NCJ 195907), Bureau of Justice Assistance, August 2002. Describes the BJA-funded Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program, in which BJA works with state and local governments to make communities safe and improve criminal justice systems. BJA is focusing on programs that implement comprehensive approaches to crime; stimulate partnerships among public agencies, private organizations, and communities; and address unmet needs in the delivery of criminal justice services, with emphasis on the reduction of violent and drug-related crimes and fosters multijurisdictional efforts to support national drug control priorities.   PDF   HTML

Emerging Issues on Privatized Prisons, (NCJ 181249), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2001. Recognizing one of the most significant challenges facing the correctional system involves prison overcrowding, the Bureau of Justice Assistance funded a nationwide study to explore issues pertaining to the privatization of prisons.   Text   PDF

Emerging Judicial Strategies for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Caseload: Mental Health Courts in Fort Lauderdale, Seattle, San Bernardino, and Anchorage: A Report on Community Justice Initiatives, (NCJ 182504), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2000. This report describes the emergence of the mental health court strategy in four jurisdictions that have pioneered the concept: Broward County (Fla.); King County (Wash.); Anchorage, (Alas.); and San Bernardino, (Calif.)   Text   PDF   HTML

Employing Returning Combat Veterans as Law Enforcement Officers, (NCJ 229251) Bureau of Justice Assistance, September 2009. This report presents findings that underscore the transition issues faced by veteran officers and agencies as they deploy and return from military service.   PDF

Employing Your Mission–Building Cultural Competence in Reentry Service Agencies Through the Hiring of Individuals Who Are Formerly Incarcerated and/or in Recovery, (NCJ 235252), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2011. This toolkit addresses several interrelated issues regarding the successful reentry into society of formerly incarcerated men and women.   PDF

Engaging the Community, (NCJ 179625), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Greg Berman, David Anderson, 1997. This document is a guide for community justice planners who are seeking to build stronger links with individual communities. Community justice initiatives are designed to build stronger connections between citizens and the justice system; community outreach is therefore a crucial component of any planning efforts.   PDF

Engaging the Private Sector To Promote Homeland Security: Law Enforcement-Private Security Partnerships, (NCJ 210678), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Andrew Morabito and Sheldon Greenberg, September 2005. Describes the advantages of law enforcement-private security partnerships in helping to prevent terrorism and terror-related acts and protect the nation’s infrastructure. This monograph, one of four Promising Practices Briefs from the Post 9-11 Policing Project, reviews the background of law-enforcement-private security partnerships, discusses why these partnerships are important to homeland security, provides nine guidelines for collaboration, and profiles a number of local and regional programs and initiatives, state, and federal programs.   PDF

Expedited Drug Case Management, (NCJ 144534), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Caroline S. Cooper, July 1994. The influx of drug cases during the past decade has forced many judicial systems to re-examine existing methods for managing the criminal docket and to consider special strategies for handling drug cases.   Text

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Fair, Timely, Economical Justice: Achieving Justice Through Effective Caseflow Management, (NCJ 229252), Bureau of Justice Assistance, December 2009. This document invites judges to examine effective caseflow management's benefits and contains six key concepts integral to effective caseflow management.   PDF

Family Dependency Treatment Courts: Addressing Child Abuse and Neglect Cases Using the Drug Court Model, (NCJ 206809), Bureau of Justice Assistance, December 2004. This new Bureau of Justice Assistance release, describes the history, mission, and goals of family dependency treatment courts (FDTCs) and how they fit into the criminal justice system. This monograph documents the growth of the strategy, as well as the planning and implementation experiences of four cities where FDTCs have become integral components of the justice process.   PDF

Federal Surplus Real Property Transfer Program, (FS 000045), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1995. Real Property Program, which was designed to alleviate state and local correctional facility overcrowding through the transfer of suitable federal land and buildings to prisons and jails for new construction or renovation.   Text   PDF

Framework for Improving Cross-Sector Coordination for Emergency Preparedness and Response: Action Steps for Public Health, Law Enforcement, the Judiciary and Corrections, (NCJ 223342), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2008. This report provides action steps for public health, law enforcement, judiciary, and corrections personnel to improve cross-sectoral coordination for emergency preparedness and response. These four sectors share overlapping responsibilities for the public's health and welfare, yet in general they tend to operate in isolation from one another. (BJA)   PDF

Full Response to an Empty House: Public Safety Strategies for Addressing Mortgage Fraud and the Foreclosure Crisis, (NCJ 230465), Bureau of Justice Assistance, May 2010. This report provides an overview of law enforcement and government responses to mortgage fraud, foreclosure, and abandoned property, drawing on focus groups sponsored by BJA in January 2009. The focus groups brought together representatives from Indio, CA, Dallas, Indianapolis, Baltimore, and Miami, as well as researchers, policymakers, and advocates from financial, housing, and law enforcement organizations.   PDF

Fusion Center Technology Guide, (NCJ 233419), Bureau of Justice Assistance, April 2009. This report highlights the purpose of the fusion center, to provide an aggregation, analysis, and dissemination point for classified and unclassified data relevant to “all-crimes” and “all-hazards” intelligence approaches.   PDF

The Future is Now: Recruiting, Retaining, and Developing the 21st Century Jail Workforce, (NCJ 229407), Bureau of Justice Assistance, March 2009. This toolkit provides strategies for improving employee recruitment, retention, succession planning and leadership development, based on current research in the field as well as input from some 2,106 line staff and 569 administrators responding to the first National Jail Workforce Survey.   PDF

FY 1996 Discretionary Grant Program Awards, (NCJ 163919), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. This is a report on the criminal justice programs and projects funded in fiscal year 1996 through the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Discretionary Grant Program.   Text   PDF

FY 1997 Discretionary Grant Program Awards, (NCJ 169272), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1998. Discretionary grants made with funds from the Bureau of Justice Assistance are listed, with details provided on awards, grantees, amounts, and contact persons.   Text   PDF

FY 1998 Open Solicitation: The Results, (NCJ 178232), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1999. This report summarizes fiscal year 1998 open solicitation submissions received by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) that support the implementation of innovative programs and policies to reduce crime and improve the criminal justice system.   Text   PDF

FY 2002 Local Law Enforcement Block Grants Program (LLEBG), (NCJ 193494), Bureau of Justice Assistance, May 2002. Describes the BJA-administered Local Law Enforcement Block Grants Program, which provides funds to units of local government to underwrite projects to reduce crime and improve public safety. The BJA program brief discusses this formula program that is based on a jurisdiction’s number of Uniform Crime Reports Part I crimes reported to the FBI. It outlines program eligibility, the distribution of funds, program purpose areas, program requirements, and the application process.   PDF   HTML

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Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence, 2nd Edition, (NCJ 228960), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2009. This guide addresses both prevention and intervention from a systemic view, clarifying the roles of the school, the community, families, law enforcement, and the justice system and how these groups can work together effectively to respond to school violence.   PDF

Guide to Occupational Health and Safety for Law Enforcement Executives, (NCJ 233580), Bureau of Justice Assistance, September 2010. With support from BJA, the Police Executive Research Forum has released, A Guide to Occupational Health and Safety for Law Enforcement Executives. This report emphasizes the critical role occupational health and safety programs play in protecting law enforcement personnel from the hazards they face in routine activities and during emergency events.   PDF

Guideline for Drug Courts on Screening and Assessment, (NCJ 171143), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Roger H. Peters, Elizabeth Peyton, 1998. This document contains guidelines to help drug courts develop effective policies, procedures and techniques for screening and assessing treatment needs of drug court participants.   PDF

Guidelines for Pandemic Emergency Preparedness Planning: A Road Map for Courts, (NCJ 217677), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2007. This report encourages court planners throughout America to consider possible issues the court may face and how to solve them in advance of a pandemic. The guidelines were developed as a result of BJA’s symposium entitled “Justice and Public Health Systems Planning: Confronting a Pandemic Outbreak.”   PDF

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Hardest Sell?: Problem-Solving Justice and the Challenges of Statewide Implementation, (NCJ 213475), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Greg Berman, 2004. This article provides an overview of the problem-solving approach to criminal justice and offers strategies for replicating some of the problem-solving practices in conventional criminal courts.   PDF

Hate Crimes on Campus: The Problem and Efforts To Confront It, (NCJ 187249), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Margaret Moss, Steven Wessler, October 2001. This monograph examines four aspects of the problem of bias, prejudice, and hate crimes on American college and university campuses.   Text   PDF

History of Street Gangs in the United States, (NCJ 230569), Bureau of Justice Assistance, May 2010. This bulletin, from BJA and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, reviews the chronology of major historical events associated with the emergence of street gangs in each of the four major U.S. geographic regions.   PDF

History of the Local Law Enforcement Block Grants Program: Supporting Local Solutions to Crime, (NCJ 179982), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2000. The Local Law Enforcement Block Grants (LLEBG) Program of the Bureau of Justice Assistance encourages communities to shape their own responses to local crime and drug problems; the program’s success confirms the longstanding opinion of local criminal justice practitioners that generic programs do not meet the needs of the country’s diverse communities   Text   PDF

An Honest Chance: Perspectives on Drug Courts, Executive Summary, (NCJ 193403), Office of Justice Programs, Jennifer B. Robinson, John S. Goldkamp, Michael D. White, 2002. The project described in this report, involving focus groups of participants in six drug courts across the United States, was conceived to gather feedback from participants in the shorter term, while awaiting the results of more extensive studies. The rationale for the focus group initiative was straightforward: Given the purpose of drug courts to change the behaviors of drug-involved defendants and offenders, we argued that direct feedback from the consumers of drug courts-their participants-is essential in evaluating the effectiveness of the drug court program.   HTML

How To Use Structured Fines (Day Fines) as an Intermediate Sanction, (NCJ 156242), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1996. This monograph presents guidelines for policymakers and criminal justice practitioners considering using structured fines (day fines) as part of their overall sentencing system.   Text   PDF

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Implementing the Family Support Approach for Community Supervision, (NCJ 226630), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2008. This guide provides information on establishing a family support approach for community supervision. Sections outline guiding principles, tools and techniques that can be utilized, and practical applications of family support.   PDF

Improving Criminal Justice and Reducing Recidivism Through Justice Reinvestment, (FS 000369), Bureau of Justice Assistance, August 2011. This fact sheet describes the justice reinvestment, a data-driven approach that enhances public safety, reduces corrections spending, and redirects savings to alternative criminal justice strategies that decrease crime and strengthen neighborhoods.   PDF

Improving Responses to People With Mental Illnesses: Strategies for Effective Law Enforcement Training, (NCJ 224332), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2008. This training resource guide synthesizes the key lessons learned by several jurisdictions that have developed training for police officers in managing people with mental illnesses.   PDF

Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: Tailoring Law Enforcement Initiatives to Individual Jurisdictions, (NCJ 229713), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2010. Improving Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: Tailoring Law Enforcement Initiatives to Individual Jurisdictions   PDF

Improving Responses to People With Mental Illnesses: The Essential Elements of a Specialized Law Enforcement–Based Program, (NCJ 223343), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Martha Plotkin, Melissa Reuland, Matt Schwarzfeld, the Council of State Governments Justice Center, August 2008. This publication identifies 10 key components found in any successful law enforcement initiative to provide better outcomes in officers’ encounters with individuals with mental illnesses. And discusses how the elements can help guide individuals in communities that are interested in developing a law enforcement-based program or improving the organization and functions of an existing program.   PDF

Improving State and Local Criminal Justice Systems: A Report on How Public Defenders, Prosecutors, and Other Criminal Justice System Practitioners Are Collaborating Across the Country, (NCJ 173391), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1998. The initiatives discussed in this report represent practical attempts to make the best use of limited criminal justice system resources by implementing projects that depend on interagency planning.   Text   PDF

Improving the Administration of Justice in Tribal Communities Through Information Sharing and Resource Sharing, (NCJ 233225), Bureau of Justice Assistance, December 2010. This bulletin will discuss challenges identified by three jurisdictional teams of justice personnel (tribal, state and federal) in establishing mechanisms for information and resource sharing. This bulletin will also attempt to identify successful collaborative strategies and determine additional ways in which more effective working partnerships can be encouraged and developed as a means to offer needed services to tribal offenders and to help local, state and federal pretrial, probation and parole officers perform their duties more effectively and efficiently.   PDF

Improving the Nation's Criminal Justice System: Findings and Results From State and Local Program Evaluations: Effective Programs Monograph No. 1, (NCJ 166822), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. This report describes six model programs related to offender drug treatment, batterer treatment, gang prevention, and other issues; the programs were federally funded, evaluated at the State and local levels, and identified as effective programs for other States and localities to replicate.   Text   PDF

In Our Backyard–Overcoming Community Resistance to Reentry Housing (A NIMBY Toolkit), (NCJ 235253), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2011. This case study documents how an organization can address a myriad of community concerns and ultimately garner support for its project.   PDF

Indian Alcohol & Substance Abuse Program Fact Sheet, (NCJ 217993), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2007. The Indian Alcohol & Substance Abuse Program supports American Indian and Alaska Native communities in planning and implementing systemwide strategies to reduce and control crime associated with the distribution and abuse of alcohol and controlled substances.   PDF

Indigent Defense and Technology: A Progress Report, (NCJ 179003), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1999. This report looks at how technology is changing the way attorneys and staff work in public defender offices.   Text   PDF

Information Sharing in Criminal Justice-Mental Health Collaborations: Working with HIPAA and Other Privacy Laws, (NCJ 232102), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2010. This guide addresses barriers to cross-systems information sharing while complying with legal privacy mandates. It describes how HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 (privacy regulations related to substance use treatment) may affect exchanges among behavioral health care, law enforcement, courts, jail and prison, and probation and parole professionals. It reviews the circumstances under which protected health information can be released and received, and offers answers to scenario-based frequently asked questions.   PDF

Institutionalizing Drug Courts: A Focus Group Meeting Report, (NCJ 196102), Office of Justice Programs, Susan Tashiro, Victoria Cashman, and Barry Mahoney, 2002. This report outlines the principal themes and ideas that emerged from a focus group meeting on institutionalizing drug courts that was held in Denver, Colorado, in May 2000. The meeting, convened by the Justice Management Institute (JMI) in cooperation with the Office of Justice Programs, called on the experience and expertise of 35 participants drawn from a broad range of courts and other institutions and organizations involved in or affected by the work of drug courts.   HTML

Integrating Drug Testing Into a Pretrial Services System: 1999 Update, (NCJ 176340), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1999. This report describes how to integrate drug testing into a jurisdiction's pretrial services program, based on the experiences of Federal and local pilot and demonstration pretrial drug testing sites; the discussion focuses on operational, management, and legal issues.   Text   PDF(part 1)   PDF(part 2)

Intelligence-Led Policing: The New Intelligence Architecture, (NCJ 210681), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Marilyn Peterson, September 2005. Discusses the strengths and pitfalls of traditional intelligence-led policing and the need for fundamental change in the way information is gathered, assessed, and redistributed in the light of new dangers presented by terrorism. This monograph, one of four Promising Practices Briefs from the Post 9-11 Policing Project, elucidates the issues, explains how we got where we are today and what we need to do to improve safety.   PDF

Interrelationship Between the Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs: Summary Overview for Drug Court Practitioners, (NCJ 178940), Bureau of Justice Assistance, John N. Marr, 1999. This issues paper addresses the underlying physiological, sociological, and psychological foundation for prohibiting persons addicted to controlled substances from using alcohol.   Text   PDF

Investing Wisely in Crime Prevention: International Experiences, (NCJ 182412), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2000. This monograph analyzes opportunities for further crime reduction in the United States by looking at trends in other countries.   Text   PDF

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Jail Administrator's Toolkit for Reentry, (NCJ 222041), Urban Institute, May 2008. Provides practitioner-oriented guidelines and principles, accompanied by examples from jails and criminal justice officials across the country, to assist in developing strategies for preparing inmates to transition from jail to the community, including prerelease planning, discharge planning, transition planning, continuity of care, community-oriented corrections, and transitional care. This toolkit is a companion piece to Life after Lockup: Improving Reentry from Jail to the Community (NCJ 220095).   PDF

Jail Population Management: Elected County Officials' Guide to Pretrial Services, (NCJ 230761), Bureau of Justice Assistance, September 2009. This report looks at the role county officials play in jail population management while making recommendations for the collaborative management of pretrial services programs.   PDF

Justice for America: Annual Report to Congress on Initiatives Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, FY 2001, (NCJ 193399), Bureau of Justice Assistance, June 2002. Describes the funding and technical assistance BJA provided for state and local criminal justice systems in FY 2001. BJA was established to help America’s communities develop strategies to reduce victimization and restore a sense of security to our neighborhoods, workplaces, and schools. The monograph includes 5 tables detailing BJA awards to the 50 states and 5 U.S. territories.   PDF   HTML

Juvenile and Family Drug Courts: An Overview, (NCJ 171139), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1998. After reviewing the background of juvenile and family drug courts, this report describes their goals and structure, compares them with traditional court processing, and identifies critical issues unique to juvenile and family drug court programs.   Text   PDF   HTML

Juvenile and Family Drug Courts: Profile of Program Characteristics and Implementation Issues, (NCJ 171142), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Caroline S. Cooper, Shanie Bartlett, 1998. This report provides a synopsis of the "state of the art" of juvenile and family drug court activity, based on responses to a survey of juvenile and family drug courts that were operating as of January 1998. This updates a 1996 report that was prepared to document juvenile and family drug court activity that was just beginning at that time.   HTML

Juvenile Delinquency and Community Prosecution: New Strategies for Old Problems, (NCJ 205078), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Caren Harp, Michael Kuykendall, Marcia Cunningham, Teresa Ware, January 2004. This monograph explains community prosecution of delinquency cases, provides an overview of the potential interface between community prosecution and juvenile justice, discusses the legal and systemic issues that the APRI (American Prosecutors Research Institute) identified during its site visits, reviews some common issues between community prosecution and juvenile justice, and compares community prosecution with the emerging juvenile justice philosophy of balanced and restorative justice.   PDF

Juvenile Drug Courts: Strategies in Practice, (NCJ 197866), Bureau of Justice Assistance, February 2003. Offers 16 strategies or recommendations for a juvenile drug court that are meant to be adapted and implemented to the unique characteristics of each court and the community it serves. These strategies create a framework for a juvenile drug court. This monograph is a collaborative work—involving the coordinated efforts of professionals from across the country. Prepared by the National Drug Court Institute and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Juvenile Drug Courts: Strategies in Practice is another step in the evolution of the juvenile drug court field.   Text   PDF

Juveniles in Adult Prisons and Jails: A National Assessment, (NCJ 182503), Bureau of Justice Assistance, James Austin Ph.D., Kelly Dedel Johnson, Ph.D., Maria Gregoriou, October 2000. This report assesses conditions of juveniles in adult prisons and jails.   Text   PDF

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Keeping Defender Workloads Manageable, (NCJ 185632), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2001. This report discusses approaches developed by public defender organizations, State legislatures, State courts, and other entities to managing the workloads of attorneys who represent indigent defendants.   Text   PDF

Keeping Illegal Activity Out of Rental Property: A Police Guide for Establishing Landlord Training Programs, (NCJ 148656), Bureau of Justice Assistance, March 2000. The Landlord Training Program emphasizes cooperation among property owners, tenants, and law enforcement agencies to help neighborhoods fight drug-related crime.   Text   PDF

Key Elements of Successful Adjudication Partnerships, (NCJ 173949), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Jane Nady Sigmon, Joh Goerdt, M. Elaine Nugent, Scott Wallace, 1999. Adjudication partnerships that entail collaborative efforts among prosecutors, public defenders, and courts in the adjudication process are proliferating and are important to developing effective responses to complex problems such as backlogged dockets, crowded jails, and recidivism among drug-addicted offenders.   Text   PDF

Keynote Presentations: 1999 Symposium on Integrated Justice Information Systems, (NCJ 178231), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1999. This report contains the keynote and plenary presentations delivered at the 1999 Symposium on Integrated Justice Information Systems, which was designed to provide practical resources to agency executives, managers, and technologists in State and local justice agencies who are considering or are in the midst of implementing integrated justice information systems.   PDF

Kid's Korner Program: City of Reno, Nevada, Police Department, (NCJ 181718), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Brian Crane, Kelly Dedel Johnson, Ph.D., 2000. The Kid's Korner program in Reno, Nev., is a "Knock-and-Talk" program in which police officers visit and check on the welfare of children living in local motels and provide families access to resources in the community.   Text   PDF

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La Bodega de la Familia: Reaching Out to the Forgotten Victims of Substance Abuse, (NCJ 170595), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Carol Shapiro, 1998. A drug crisis center in Manhattan's Lower East Side, known as La Bodega de la Familia, includes families of drug addicts in the drug treatment process, and the program demonstrates that a supportive family is a drug user's best hope for recovery.   Text   PDF

Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery, (FS 000353), Bureau of Justice Assistance, November 2010. This fact sheet describes the Law Enforcement Congressional Badge of Bravery Program, which recognizes individuals who have exhibited exceptional courage, extraordinary decisiveness and presence of mind, and unusual swiftness of action, regardless of their own personal safety, in an attempt to save or protect human life.   PDF

Law Enforcement Responses to People with Mental Illnesses: A Guide to Research-Informed Policy and Practice, (NCJ 226965), Bureau of Justice Assistance, May 2009. This guide examines studies on law enforcement interactions with people with mental illnesses and translates the findings to help policymakers and practitioners develop safe and effective interventions.   PDF

Lengthening the Stride: Employing Peace Officers From Newly Arrived Ethnic Groups, (NCJ 159738), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1995. This volume examines and addresses the issues surrounding hiring police officers from immigrant ethnic groups; the report uses information from several law enforcement agencies that have recruited and hired from such groups in their areas.   Text   PDF

Lessons From the Field: Ten Community Prosecution Leadership Profiles, (NCJ 208391), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Robert Wolf, John Worrall, November 2004. Community-based prosecution involves the notion that prosecutors are more than officers of the court who enter the scene after the commission of a crime. Community prosecution engages members of the community in crime reduction and neighborhood improvement through tools such as nuisance abatement, drug-free zones, landlord tenant laws, truancy abatement, and restorative justice practices.   PDF

Lessons Learned From the Organized Crime Narcotics (OCN) Trafficking Enforcement Program Model, (NCJ 172878), Bureau of Justice Assistance, December 1998. This report discusses the history, structure, dynamics, projects, and investigations of the Organized Crime Narcotics (OCN) Trafficking Enforcement Program developed by the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance as a discretionary grant program to assist police agencies in responding to multijurisdictional drug law offenses.   Text   PDF

Life After Lockup: Improving Reentry From Jail to the Community, (NCJ 220095), Urban Institute, 2008. Presents an overview of U.S. jails and the people who cycle through them, examines various ways that jurisdictions can address reentry from jail, profiles numerous and diverse reentry efforts from around the country, and explores the role of probation in reentry from jail. This monograph is a companion piece to The Jail Administrator’s Toolkit for Reentry (NCJ 222041).   PDF

Local Drug Court Research: Navigating Performance Measures and Process Evaluations, (NCJ 218073), National Drug Court Institute, June 2006. Promotes quality research at all levels of drug courts by providing a uniform and manageable data collection and evaluation strategy for local drug court programs. These measures allow local jurisdictions to answer questions from stakeholders and funding agencies, and help promote sound management practices at the local court level.   PDF

Looking at a Decade of Drug Courts, (NCJ 171140), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1998. This report addresses the background of the drug court "movement," the major areas in which drug courts differ from traditional adjudication processes, and salient achievements to date.   HTML

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Managing a Multijurisdictional Case: Identifying the Lessons Learned From the Sniper Investigation, (NCJ 207206), Chuck Wexler, Gerard R. Murphy, Heather J. Davies, Martha Plotkin, October 2004. This BJA-sponsored publication details the “lessons learned” and recommendations for how police agencies can prepare for high-profile crimes involving multiple jurisdictions. The report, from the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), is based on experiences of more than 100 individuals closest to the D.C. sniper case, as well as focus groups and extensive information collection.   PDF

Memphis, Tennessee, Police Department's Crisis Intervention Team, (NCJ 182501), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Betsy Vickers, 2000. The goals of the Memphis Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) are to provide immediate response to and management of situations where the mentally ill are in a state of crisis; prevent, reduce, or eliminate injury to both the consumer and the responding police officer; find appropriate care for the consumer; and establish a treatment program that reduces recidivism.   Text   PDF

Mental Health Courts: A Guide to Research-Informed Policy and Practice, (NCJ 228274), Bureau of Justice Assistance, September 2009. This guide helps policy makers and practitioners understand available research to better design, implement, and evaluate mental health courts.   PDF

Mental Health Courts: A Primer for Policymakers and Practitioners, (NCJ 224316) Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2008. This publication provides the field with a comprehensive overview and history of mental health courts and describes mental health courts' goals and processes, how they differ from drug courts, research findings about their effectiveness, and resources for jurisdictions interested in starting a program.   PDF

Missing Persons: Volunteers Supporting Law Enforcement, (NCJ 233226), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2010. A focus group of nearly 30 leaders from law enforcement agencies, missing person organizations, state attorney’s offices, and the U.S. Department of Justice attended and discussed the use of affiliated and spontaneous volunteers in missing person investigations, how to deal with the media, types of missing persons cases, technology available, partner organizations, and individual agency experiences with missing persons. Based on the ideas and concerns shared at the focus group, this publication was developed to reach those managing law enforcement volunteer programs.   PDF

Mission Possible: Strong Governance Structures for the Integration of Justice Information Systems, (NCJ 192278), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2002. This report presents the methodology and findings from a study of the type, quality, and capability of existing justice information integration and governance structure models.   Text   PDF

Money Laundering Forfeitures: Landmark Structuring Case Provides Guidance, (NCJ 152056), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Christine M. Taylor, Esq., Donald C. Semesky, Jr. 1995. In Ratzlaf v. United States, 1994 WL 4189, 1994 U.S. Lexis (U.S., January 11, 1994), the U.S. Supreme Court clarified the elements of the Federal structuring offense, 31 U.S.C., Sec. 5324; the opinion gives law enforcement officers useful direction for targeting cases, gathering evidence, anticipating defenses, and evaluating the likelihood of prevailing against a claimant in seizure and forfeiture matters.   Text

Multijurisdictional Task Forces Use of Overtime and Related Issues, FY 1994: A Report to the Attorney General, (NCJ 160936), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1996. This report provides the following information for the Byrne Formula and Discretionary Grant Programs: the use of overtime by task forces, the amount of funds allocated to overtime, and other related aspects of task force implementation.   PDF

Mutual Aid: Multijurisdictional Partnerships for Meeting Regional Threats, (NCJ 210679), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Phil Lynn, September 2005. Presents numerous examples of the efforts of regions across the country to work in collaborative partnerships across jurisdictions. This monograph, one of four Promising Practices Briefs from the Post 9-11 Policing Project, provides agencies interested in taking a more regional approach to terrorism prevention, preparedness, and response, with varied initiatives upon which to base mutual aid agreement proposals.   PDF

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National Assessment of Structured Sentencing, (NCJ 153853), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1996. The last two decades of sentencing reforms designed to replace indeterminate sentencing with structured sentencing schemes such as determinate sentencing, mandatory minimum penalties, and sentencing guidelines were evaluated with respect to their impacts and the effectiveness of the approaches used.   Text   PDF

National Night Out: A Community-Police Partnership Program, (FS 000255), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1999. National Night Out is a program dedicated to community-building and crime watch activities. National Night Out provides information, educational materials, and technical assistance year-long to community-police partnerships.   Text   PDF

National Night Out: Building Police and Community Partnerships to Prevent Crime, (NCJ 180775), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Rebecca Morris, 2000. National Night Out was established in 1984 with funding from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), and the program is administered by the National Association of Town Watch, a nationwide organization dedicated to the development of community-based, law enforcement-affiliated crime prevention activities.   Text   PDF

National Survey of State Sentencing Structures, 1996, (NCJ 169270), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1998. The primary objective of this 1996 national survey of State sentencing practices was to classify each State according to the type of sentencing practice used.   Text   PDF

National White Collar Crime: Helping America Fight Economic Crime, (NCJ 184958), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2002. Describes the role of the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), which provides a national support network for state and local law enforcement agencies and other organizations involved in preventing, investigating, and prosecuting economic and high-tech crimes.   Text   PDF   HTML

Navigating Your Agency's Path to Intelligence-Led Policing, (NCJ 233420), Bureau of Justice Assistance, April 2009. This executive summary serves as an overview for implementing the Intelligence-Led Policing (ILP) framework within a law enforcement agency.   PDF

Neighborhood Watch Manual, (NCJ 231132), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2010. This manual describes how to start, manage, create, and expand a neighborhood watch group. It is intended to provide citizens information on the program along with helpful tips.   PDF

Neighborhood-Oriented Policing in Rural Communities: A Program Planning Guide, (NCJ 143709), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1994. This monograph is targeted at citizens and law enforcement officials in rural and small town settings who are working to redirect police resources to achieve greater effectiveness in handling public safety problems including crime and fear of crime, drug abuse, violence, and disorder. The vehicle through which this is attempted is the Innovative Neighborhood-Oriented Policing in Rural Jurisdictions (Rural INOP) developed and funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance   Text

New Way of Doing Business: A Conversation About the Statewide Coordination of Problem-Solving Courts, (NCJ 226156), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2009. To guide governments as they think about how to coordinate problem-solving courts on a statewide basis, BJA and the Center for Court Innovation brought together 18 policymakers, researchers, and practitioners for a roundtable conversation. This report summarizes the discussion.   PDF

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Offender Supervision with Electronic Technology: A Community Corrections Resource, Second Edition, (NCJ 229049), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2009. This publication serves as helpful tool in making decisions about electronic supervision technologies.   PDF

One America in the 21st Century: The President's Initiative on Race; One America Dialogue Guide: Conducting a Discussion on Race, (NCJ 173431), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1998. This manual provides guidelines for developing and implementing a community dialog on race relations.   Text   PDF

Open Solicitation '97: The Results, (NCJ 168096), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Tamar Dor-Ner, 1997. This report overviews State and local submissions to Open Solicitation '97, and report findings characterize emerging trends in State and local criminal justice issues.   Text   PDF

Opening the Courts to the Community: Volunteers in Wisconsin's Courts, (NCJ 178935), Bureau of Justice Assistance, W. Clinton Terry III, Ph.D., 2000. In Wisconsin, the success of the partnership between the court system and the community is evident in the number of court-related volunteer programs operating throughout the State.   Text   PDF

Overcoming Obstacles to Community Courts: A Summary of Workshop Proceedings, (NCJ 173400), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1998. This monograph examines how eight cities have adapted the community court model to their neighborhoods' unique needs.   Text   PDF

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Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Planning: Guidelines for Community Corrections, (NCJ 228287), Bureau of Justice Assistance, August 2009. This document provides guidance to community corrections for developing preparedness and response plans for pandemic flu and other crises.   PDF

Partnerships To Prevent Youth Violence, (NCJ 148459), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1994. To develop educational, recreational, and anticrime programs and activities to redirect youth away from violence and crime, police agencies can actively seek and promote connections with existing institutions including schools, parent groups, neighborhood associations, professional groups, and service organizations.   Text

Performance Measurement for Justice Information System Projects, (NCJ 222673), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Dr. Michael Geerken, March 2008. A guide to help criminal justice and law enforcement information sharing professionals develop performance measures for their projects by offering comments and advice on the process and providing a catalog of workable examples for specific types of projects; and to help implement special summary performance measures developed by BJA to meet its responsibilities under the Government Performance and Results Act.   PDF

Planning Guide for Using the Trial Court Performance Standards and Measurement System, (NCJ 161568), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. This planning guide describes the innovative and comprehensive Trial Courts Performance Standards and Measurement System, which is a resource for helping courts provide fair and efficient adjudication and disposition of cases.   Text   PDF

Planning, Implementing and Operating Effective Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN) Programs: Guidelines and Standards, (NCJ 234517), Bureau of Justice Assistance, October 2006. This report provides recommendations and standards for planning, implementing, and operating an effective Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN)Program.   PDF

Police Guide to Surveying Citizens and Their Environment, (NCJ 143711), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1993. This monograph offers an introduction and practical guidelines regarding the development and implementation of two types of surveys that police find increasingly useful: (1) surveys of citizens and (2) surveys of the physical environment.   Text   PDF

Policymaker's Guide to Hate Crimes, (NCJ 162304), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Gwen Holden, Jennifer A. Ferrante, Lisa Doyle Moran, Paul E. Lawrence, Robert Kapler, 1999. This monograph explains the scope and nature of the Nation's hate crime problem and provides an overview of the current responses to hate crimes by local, State, and Federal government agencies; law enforcement authorities; and civil rights groups.   Text   PDF

Pretrial Drug Testing: An Overview of Issues and Practices, (NCJ 176341), Bureau of Justice Assistance, D. Alan Henry, John Clark, July 1999. This bulletin overviews drug testing issues and practices at the pretrial stage of the criminal justice system.   Text   PDF

Pretrial Services Programming at the Start of the 21st Century: A Survey of Pretrial Services Programs, (NCJ 199773), Bureau of Justice Assistance, D. Alan Henry, John Clark, July 2003. Summarizes results from the 2001 survey of pretrial services programs and describes where the programs stand in relation to their status in 1979 and 1989 and how well they meet standards set by the American Bar Association and the National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies. Specifically, this monograph examines how pretrial services programs are meeting the increasing number of challenges presented by defendants with mental illness, juveniles charged as adults, people charged with domestic violence offenses, and women offenders.   Text   PDF   HTML

Principles and Promises: BJA's Plan for the Future, (NCJ 197078), Bureau of Justice Assistance, February 2003. Identifies guiding principles for BJA that will help it to better serve its partners in the field by simplifying its procedures, focusing on program results, and providing assistance to its grantees. Because the best solutions to criminal justice problems come from the field, BJA’s role is to provide national leadership in criminal justice issues by seeking innovative solutions and promoting them throughout the country. This BJA document also details promising policy initiatives in the areas of community planning, crime prevention, counter-terrorism, law enforcement, adjudication, community and institutional corrections, information technology, and faith-based initiatives.   PDF

Principles of Community Justice: A Guide for Community Court Planners, (NCJ 232968), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2010. This report discusses the principles underlying community courts.   PDF

Principles of Problem-Solving Justice, (NCJ 234803), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2007. Principles described in this article emphasize collaboration, engagement with local stakeholders, and individualization of sanctions—strategies that avoid cookie-cutter approaches and encourage justice practitioners to embrace local priorities, resources, and circumstances.   PDF

Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program, (NCJ 203483), Bureau of Justice Assistance, March 2004. Describes a program that exempts certified state and local departments of corrections from normal restrictions on the sale of inmate-made goods in interstate commerce. A total of 50 jurisdictions may be certified under this program by demonstrating that they meet statutory and guideline requirements.   PDF   HTML

Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Compliance Verification for the Intelligence Enterprise, (NCJ 233421), Bureau of Justice Assistance, June 2010. This document assists law enforcement agencies in determining whether they are in compliance with applicable privacy-related policies, procedures, rules, and guidelines.   PDF

Problem-Oriented Drug Enforcement: A Community-Based Approach for Effective Policing, (NCJ 143710), Bureau of Justice Assistance, October 1993. A demonstration project funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance starting in 1987 to apply problem-oriented policing strategies to drug law enforcement and drug-related crime was analyzed with respect to its implementation and effectiveness.   Text   PDF

Programs in Correctional Settings: Innovative State and Local Programs, (NCJ 170088), Bureau of Justice Assistance, June 1998. This monograph reports the results of the Bureau of Justice Assistance State Evaluation Development Program working meeting, "Programs in Correctional Settings: Innovative State and Local Programs," held November 2-4, 1995, in Longmont, Col.   Text   PDF

Project ChildSafe, (NCJ 204959), Bureau of Justice Assistance, May 2004. Project ChildSafe is a nationwide program that distributes free gun locks and teaches firearm owners how to safely handle and store their firearms. The project also helps local law enforcement agencies schedule firearm safety events in their communities.   PDF   HTML

Project Safe Neighborhoods: America's Network Against Gun Violence, (NCJ 205263), Bureau of Justice Assistance, June 2004. Presents an overview of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a gun crime reduction strategy that links federal, state, and local forces in a multifaceted approach to deter and punish gun crime.   PDF   HTML

Promising Practices Against Hate Crimes: Five State and Local Demonstration Projects, (NCJ 181425), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2000. This monograph describes five demonstration programs developed by State and local agencies for confronting and reducing hate crimes.   Text   PDF

Promoting Partnerships for Public Safety: FY 2002 Annual Report to Congress on Initiatives Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, (NCJ 200252), Bureau of Justice Assistance, December 2003. Describes the funding, training, and technical assistance BJA provided in FY 2002. BJA was created to help America’s state and local governments reduce violence and restore security in our neighborhoods and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our nation’s criminal justice system. The report includes 7 tables detailing BJA awards to the states and U.S. territories.   PDF   HTML

Promoting Safety in Schools: International Experience and Action, (NCJ 186937), Bureau of Justice Assistance, August 2001. Written for school principals, superintendents, administrators, boards of governors, school-parent bodies, and others in leadership positions, this federally funded study presented information on school safety trends, policies, and projects from various countries around the world.   Text   PDF

Protecting Judicial Officials: Implementing an Effective Threat Management Process, (NCJ 213930), Bureau of Justice Assistance, June 2006. Describes the 10 basic elements of a successful threat management process. These elements demonstrate how the judiciary can identify, assess, investigate, and manage risks of violence to judicial officials.   PDF

Providing Effective Representation for Youth Prosecuted as Adults, (NCJ 182502), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Malcolm C. Young, 2000. This bulletin describes successes in public defenders’ attempts to provide high-quality representation to youth prosecuted in adult criminal courts.   Text   PDF

Public Defense Reform Since Gideon: Improving the Administration of Justice By Building On Our Successes and Learning From Our Failures: A Public Defense Leadership Focus Group, (NCJ 230794), Bureau of Justice Assistance, September 2008. This document reports on the presentations heard and discussions on the progress and setbacks in our nation's effort to deliver public defense services, the lessons learned through these successes and failures, best practices, and "succession planning" from the current generation of indigent defense leadership to the next.   PDF

Public Domain Drug Court Software: Functions and Utility, (NCJ 197258), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2003. Reviews four public domain drug court management information systems (MISs) to help jurisdictions identify and select software that can support their information management needs. Not intended as an exhaustive discussion of all drug court MISs, the report describes the features and capabilities of proven MISs developed by the following jurisdictions: the City of Buffalo, New York, Drug Court; the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area; the Brooklyn, New York, Treatment Court; and the South Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. The information presented includes basic system elements, acquisition requirements and costs, ongoing system modifications, and contact information for further information. Appendixes showing data fields for each MIS are also included.   Text   PDF

Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program, (FS000317), Bureau of Justice Assistance, September 2009. This fact sheet describes the Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB Program), which provides death and education benefits to survivors of fallen law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other first responders, as well as disability benefits to officers catastrophically injured in the line of duty.   PDF   HTML

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Recruiting and Retaining Women: A Self-Assessment Guide for Law Enforcement, (NCJ 188157), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2001. This bulletin provides an overview of the information and resources available in a self-assessment guide developed by the National Center for Women and Policing under a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to assist police agencies seeking to recruit and retain more women in sworn law enforcement positions.   Text   PDF

Recruiting and Retaining Women: A Self-Assessment Guide for Law Enforcement, (NCJ 185235), Bureau of Justice Assistance, National Center for Women & Policing, 2001. This manual presents step-by-step instructions to help police agencies hire and retain more women employees by examining their policies and procedures and by identifying and removing obstacles to hiring and retaining sworn and civilian women employees at all levels within the organization.   Text   PDF

Reducing Illegal Firearms Trafficking: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned, (NCJ 180752), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2000. This monograph addresses the issue of illegal firearms trafficking.   Text   PDF

Reentry Courts: Looking Ahead: A Conversation about Strategies for Offender Reintegration, (NCJ 234087), BJA and the Center for Court Innovation, April 2011 This report summarizes a discussion of reentry courts among policymakers, court practitioners, and parole and probation administrators. The conversation, which was sponsored by BJA in June 2010, focuses on reentry courts' achievements, challenges, and future prospects.   PDF

Reentry Housing Options: The Policymakers' Guide, (NCJ 230589), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2010. This document provides practical steps that lawmakers and others can take to increase public safety through better access to affordable housing for individuals released to the community.   PDF

Reentry Partnerships: A Guide for States & Faith-Based and Community Organizations, (NCJ 224916), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2008. This guide presents goals and recommendations which offer strategies for States to build networks with faith-based and community organizations, simplify pathways to funding support, recognize and understand distinct organizational cultures, tailor responses to the populations who will be served by reentry services, and ensure accountability that will help sustain and improve reentry initiatives.   PDF

Regional Seminar Series on Developing and Implementing Antistalking Codes, (NCJ 156836), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1996. This monograph includes an overview of the proceedings and findings of the seminar series on Developing and Implementing Antistalking Codes, an analysis of recent State appellate court decisions in stalking cases, and information on developments in the area of civil protective order laws since publication of the model code.   Text   PDF

Repaying Debts, (NCJ 220163), Bureau of Justice Assistance, October 2007. This report discusses the financial obligations of people released from prisons and jails and includes recommendations to help policymakers increase accountability among people who commit crimes, improve rates of child support collection and victim restitution, and make people's transition from prisons and jails to the community safe and successful.   PDF

Report of the National Summit on Justice Reinvestment and Public Safety Council of State Governments , (NCJ 233019), Bureau of Justice Assistance, January 2011. This report, based on a 2010 summit requested by the U.S. House Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Subcommittee, focuses on four fundamental strategies for developing cost-effective corrections policies that can reduce recidivism: (1) Focus resources on individuals most likely to reoffend; (2) Base programs on research and ensure quality; (3) Implement effective community supervision policies and practices; and (4) Apply place-based strategies.   PDF

Report of the National Task Force on Court Automation and Integration, (NCJ 177601), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1999. This project is designed to develop coordinated automation and integration of court systems throughout the United States and to assess the current status of county and statewide information systems to direct future integration efforts.   Text   PDF

Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners (RSAT) Program, (NCJ 206269), Bureau of Justice Assistance, April 2005. Presents the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners (RSAT) Program, which helps states and local governments develop, implement, and improve RSAT programs in state and local correctional and detention facilities. This Program Update describes RSAT and its funding history, program components, national- and state-level RSAT evaluations, and state-by-state activities. It also covers changes made to the program.   PDF

Resource Guide on Racial Profiling Data Collection Systems: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned, (NCJ 184768), Bureau of Justice Assistance, November 2000. This document provides an overview of the nature of racial profiling; a description of racial-profiling data collection and its purpose; current activities in California, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Great Britain; and recommendations for the future.   Text   PDF

Resources for Mother-Child Community Corrections, (NCJ 190352), Bureau of Justice Assistance. Mary K. Shilton, September 2001. The Mother-Child Community Corrections Project has prepared this Resource Directory for program managers, agencies, and individuals who are involved in planning, developing, and implementing programs that serve mothers who have been under criminal-justice supervision, or diverted from the justice system, and their children.   Text   PDF

Responding to the Community: Principles for Planning and Creating a Community Court, Updated February 2001, (NCJ 185986), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Greg Berman, John Feinblatt, 2001. Using the Midtown Community Court (MCC) in New York City as a case study, this bulletin presents a set of common principles for community courts.   Text   PDF

Revitalizing Communities: Innovative State and Local Programs, (NCJ 165360), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. This monograph documents a variety of initiatives, including several among Native American tribal communities, that focus on preventing crime and its consequences through community revitalization.   Text   PDF

Robert Taylor Boys and Girls Club of Chicago, (NCJ 174442), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1999. This description and assessment of the Robert Taylor Boys and Girls Club of Chicago is based on the authors' visit to the Club in 1998.   Text   PDF

Role of Law Enforcement in Public Health Emergencies: Special Considerations for an All-Hazards Approach, (NCJ 214333), Bureau of Justice Assistance, September 2006. This report describes the role of law enforcement during public health emergencies, mass vaccinations, voluntary restrictions, and quarantines; securing the perimeter of contaminated areas and securing health care facilities; controlling crowds; investigating scenes of suspected biological terrorism; and protecting national stockpiles of vaccines or other medicines.   PDF

Role of Local Government in Community Safety, (NCJ 184218), Bureau of Justice Assistance, International Centre for the Prevention of Crime, Margaret Shaw, April 2001. Prepared for mayors, city managers, planners, and elected officials, this monograph presents information drawn from around the United States and the world regarding ways that public officials have used their authority to foster safer, healthier communities.   Text   PDF

Rural Law Enforcement Internet Access, Technical Assistance, and Training Program, (FS 000266), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2000. Rural Law Enforcement Internet Access, Technical Assistance, and Training Program describes the National Center for Rural Law Enforcement (NCRLE) program to provide free Internet access, for criminal justice purposes only, to rural law enforcement agencies across the Nation. This BJA Fact Sheet lists the minimum hardware and software requirements for receiving Internet access and the percentages of police departments and sheriffs’ offices online as of April 2000.   Text   PDF

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SEARCH National Technical Assistance and Training Program, (FS 000253), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1999. This fact sheet explains the key program elements of the SEARCH National Training and Technical Assistance Program.   Text   PDF

Second Look at Alleviating Jail Crowding: A Systems Perspective, (NCJ 182507), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2000. This report documents how system officials have responded to the challenges of the past 15 years to minimize jail crowding.   Text   PDF

Sex Offenders in the Community: Enforcement and Prevention Strategies for Law Enforcement, (NCJ 236971), Bureau of Justice Assistance, September 2007. This publication provides an overview of the sex offender population, identifies various law enforcement prevention and enforcement strategies, features specific examples from jurisdictions around the country, and includes sample departmental forms and documents.   PDF

Smart Policing Initiative, (FS 000315), Bureau of Justice Assistance, September 2009. This fact sheet describes the Smart Policing Initiative, which seeks to identify law enforcement tactics and strategies that are effective, efficient, and economical.   PDF   HTML

Solutions for Safer Communities: Annual Reports to Congress 2006 and 2007, (NCJ 225799), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2010. This annual report describes the mission, goals, and structure of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the funding and technical assistance that BJA provided to State and local criminal justice systems in fiscal years 2006 and 2007 to support initiatives in every area of the justice system.   HTML

Solutions for Safer Communities: FY 2003 Annual Report to Congress on Initiatives Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, (NCJ 207629), Bureau of Justice Assistance, December 2004. Presents BJA’s fiscal and programmatic efforts in FY 2003 and demonstrates the positive, long-lasting impact strategic planning has on crime and terrorism.   PDF

Solutions for Safer Communities: FY 2004 Annual Report to Congress, (NCJ 210065 for print and NCJ 212110 for CD), Bureau of Justice Assistance, September 2005. Describes the funding, technical assistance, and diverse resources BJA provided in fiscal year 2004 to support jurisdictions in their efforts to reduce and prevent crime. The report also provides real examples of jurisdictions and organizations throughout the nation that benefited from BJA’s programs and made a difference in their communities.   PDF

Solutions for Safer Communities: FY 2005 Annual Report to Congress, (NCJ 215665 for print and NCJ 216753 for CD-ROM), Bureau of Justice Assistance, February 2007. Describes the assistance BJA provided in fiscal year 2005, showcasing how states have used BJA funding to help keep America’s communities safer. This Report to Congress provides not only a congressional update, but also a tool for law enforcement and justice officials to use as they implement strategies to reduce and prevent crime.   PDF

Special Drug Courts, (NCJ 144531), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Steven Belenko, Tamara Dumanovsky, November 1993. This report describes the development, operation, and results of special drug courts established in several jurisdictions in recent years to process felony drug cases and sometimes to link defendants to community-based drug treatment.   Text   PDF

State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program, (NCJ 192165), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2002. Discusses the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Program, a BJA-funded program that provides training in detecting, investigating, and prosecuting extremist criminal activity.   PDF   HTML

State and Local Programs: Treatment, Rehabilitation, and Education, (NCJ 148456), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1994. This publication reports on the results of the Bureau of Justice Assistance State Reporting and Evaluation Program "State and Local Programs Working Meeting: Treatment, Rehabilitation, and Education," held April 7-9, 1994, in San Francisco, Calif.   Text

State and Local Programs: Understanding and Combatting Violence -- Results From State and Local Programs Workshops, (NCJ 148812), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1994. This publication reports on the results of a working meeting held by the Bureau of Justice Assistance in May 1994 in Seattle, Washington, that focused on State reporting and evaluation programs targeting violence.   Text

State of the Science of Pretrial Risk Assessment, (NCJ 233986), BJA and the Pretrial Justice Institute, March 2011. In June 2010, the Pretrial Justice Institute and BJA convened a meeting of researchers and practitioners to discuss the current state of the science and practice of pretrial justice. This document summarizes the key points that came out of that discussion and what leaders in the field identified as significant next steps in advancing the administration of pretrial justice, ensuring efficient and effective release and detention decisions for pretrial defendants, managing defendant risk through appropriate and specific conditions of release, and balancing the rights of defendants with community safety.   PDF

Statewide Coordination of Problem-Solving Courts: A Snapshot of Five States, (NCJ 236476), BJA and the Center for Innovation, October 2011. This fact sheet describes the goals five states—California, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, and New York—are pursuing as they coordinate their problem-solving courts.   PDF

Stopping Hate Crime: A Case History from the Sacramento Police Department, (FS 000161), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. This fact sheet reports the experiences of one community's battle to stop hate crime.   Text   PDF

Strategically Monitoring Sex Offenders: Accessing Community Corrections' Resources to Enhance Law Enforcement Capabilities, (NCJ 224770), Bureau of Justice Assistance, August 2008. Baseline information is provided to improve communication between the law enforcement community and community corrections officers with the ultimate goals of enhancing public safety and future victimization through effective management of sex offenders.   PDF

Strategies for Court Collaboration With Service Communities, (NCJ 196945). Bureau of Justice Assistance, (November 2002). Discusses the emergence of "problem-solving courts," a collaborative effort among treatment service providers and courts to address the underlying issues faced by individuals entering the court system. The brief reviews the five service goals on which to build problem-solving programs and the nine components of an effective service coordination strategy.   PDF   HTML

Strategies for Reducing Homicide: The Comprehensive Homicide Initiative in Richmond, California, (NCJ 168100), Bureau of Justice Assistance, James J. Fyfe, John S. Goldkamp, Michael D. White, 1997. This monograph describes the implementation strategy developed and executed in Richmond, Calif., the first site to reach the implementation stage of the Comprehensive Homicide Initiative, which is piloting the application of multifaceted strategies to reduce homicide in local communities.   Text   PDF

Summary of Proceedings: Bureau of Justice Assistance 1999 National Partnership Meeting: Working Together for Peace and Justice in the 21st Century, (NCJ 177623), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1999. This report summarizes a 1999 conference sponsored by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance; more than 200 speakers, 56 workshops and plenary sessions, and more than 1,100 participants focused on accomplishments in crime control and crime prevention, as well as criminal justice programs, innovations, issues, and trends.   Text(Part 1)   Text(Part 2)   Text(Part 3)   PDF(Part 1)   PDF(Part 2)   PDF(Part 3)

Supporting the Drug Court Process: What You Need to Know for Effective Decision Making and Program Evaluation, (NCJ 197259), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2003. Presents a functional overview of the drug court and the nature of the questions and answers that together form the foundation for sound decisionmaking for the court’s key activities. Provides advice on the selection and acquisition of computer systems for drug courts, as well as an overview of ongoing and pertinent issues associated with these systems. Drug courts preparing to acquire a management information system (MIS) and jurisdictions that have already implemented an MIS will find that this report offers a basis for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of a planned or existing information system. This report also guides those who are planning, implementing, or operating adult drug courts to understand the critical importance of the availability of a wide range of timely, accurate, and complete information.   Text   PDF

Supportive Housing for the Disabled Reentry Population: The District of Columbia Frequent Users Service Enhancement Pilot, (NCJ 237150), BJA-Sponsored, December 2011. This project was supported by Grant Award #2009-SU-B9-0006, awarded by the Justice Grants Administration, Executive Office of the Mayor, District of Columbia. The funding provided for this grant was awarded to the Justice Grants Administration through the Byrne Justice Assistance Act Grant Program by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. Using qualitative and quantitative data, this report discusses the history, performance, and progress of the District of Columbia Frequent Users Service Enhancement Pilot Program, implemented by the Corporation for Supportive Housing.   PDF

Surveying Communities: A Resource for Community Justice Planners, (NCJ 197109), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Leslie Paik, May 2003. Proposes that community surveys are valuable tools for community justice planners. Conducting a survey requires time, manpower, and the ability to design a scientifically sound questionnaire and analyze its results. This monograph explains the benefits of community surveys and the survey process. Surveying Communities: A Resource for Community Justice Planners also relates the experiences of the Center for Court Innovation as it designed, implemented, and analyzed a community survey for the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York.   PDF   HTML

System Integration: Issues Surrounding Integration of County-Level Justice Information Systems, (NCJ 156841), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1996. This report discusses issues associated with the development of integrated computer systems to serve more efficiently and effectively the information needs of all participants in the justice system at the county level.   PDF

Systems Approach to Crime and Drug Prevention: A Path to Community Policing, (NCJ 143712), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1993. Demonstration programs conducted in Knoxville, Tenn. and Tucson, Ariz. and funded by 1985 grants from the Bureau of Justice Assistance involved what now can be characterized as a community-based, problem-oriented style of policing.   Text   PDF

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Tale of Three Cities: Drugs, Courts, and Community Justice, (NCJ 232872), BJA and the Center for Court Innovation, December 2010. Inspired by drug courts, the three innovative programs profiled—one in Brooklyn, one in the Bronx, and the other in California—are all tackling the problem of drug addiction. Yet these courts have some important differences from drug court. This monograph highlights how new and innovative community courts are building on the drug court model, expanding the reach of problem-solving principles beyond specialized courtrooms and making a significant contribution to the fight against substance abuse.   PDF

Ten-Step Guide to Transforming Probation Departments to Reduce Recidivism, (NCJ 235775), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2011. This guide provides probation leaders with a roadmap to overhaul the operations of their agencies so they can increase public safety in their communities and improve rates of compliance among people they are supervising.   PDF

Treatment Services in Adult Drug Courts: Report on the 1999 National Drug Court Treatment Survey, (NCJ 188085), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Elizabeth A. Peyton, Robert Gossweiler, 2001. This report presents the findings and the implications of a 1999 survey to determine substance abuse treatment services and other treatment services currently used by adult drug courts and to identify significant issues faced by adult drug courts in obtaining and delivering high-quality comprehensive treatment services.   Text   PDF

Treatment Services in Adult Drug Courts: Report on the 1999 National Drug Court Treatment Survey, Executive Summary, (NCJ 188086), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Elizabeth A. Peyton, Robert Gossweiler, 2001. This report presents the executive summary of the findings and the implications of a 1999 survey to determine substance abuse treatment services and other treatment services currently used by adult drug courts and to identify significant issues faced by adult drug courts in obtaining and delivering high-quality comprehensive treatment services.   Text   PDF

Trial Court Performance Standards and Measurement System Implementation Manual, (NCJ 161567), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. This is a detailed guide for implementing the Trial Court Performance Standards and Measurement System; it is intended for judges, court managers, lawyers, policymakers, court staff, and other professionals who will participate in the implementation process.   Text

Trial Court Performance Standards and Measurement System, (NCJ 161569), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. This is an overview of the Trial Courts Performance Standards and Measurement System, which was created by the National Center for State Courts and the Bureau of Justice Assistance to serve as a common language for describing, classifying, and measuring the performance of trial courts.   Text   PDF

Trial Court Performance Standards With Commentary, (NCJ 161570), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. This report presents 22 standards for trial court performance and provides substantive commentary on the rationale for each standard; it also includes an overview of the measurement system.   Text   PDF

Tribal Courts Assistance Program Fact Sheet, (NCJ 217994), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2007. The Tribal Courts Assistance Program is one of the U.S. Department of Justice’s primary initiatives for providing federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native communities with funding, technical assistance, and other court-related support to develop, implement, enhance, and continue the operation of tribal justice systems.   PDF

Tribal Courts Assistance Program Fact Sheet 2008, (NCJ 236348), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2008. The Tribal Courts Assistance Program is one of the U.S. Department of Justice’s primary initiatives for providing federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native communities with funding, technical assistance, and other court-related support to develop, implement, enhance, and continue the operation of tribal justice systems.   PDF

Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts: The Key Components, (NCJ 188154), Bureau of Justice Assistance, May 2003. This publication is organized around ten key components that define Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts. Each key component is explained and followed by several recommended practices that provide guidance for implementing each component. The recommended practices are meant to serve as a practical, yet flexible framework for developing effective wellness courts in vastly different jurisdictions and to provide a structure for conducting research and evaluation for program accountability and effectiveness.   Text   PDF

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Understanding Community Policing: A Framework for Action, (NCJ 148457), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1994. This monograph provides a conceptual framework designed for practitioners interested in implementing or expanding local community policing initiatives.   Text   PDF

Urban Street Gang Enforcement, (NCJ 161845), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1997. Intended primarily for prosecutors and law enforcement administrators, managers, and supervisors, this monograph provides guidance for the development or refinement of strategies to combat urban street gangs.   Text   PDF

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Volunteer Programs: Enhancing Public Safety by Leveraging Resources: A Resource Guide for Law Enforcement Agencies, (NCJ 230816), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2010. This document, for chiefs, sheriffs, and other executives interested in establishing or enhancing a law enforcement volunteer program, includes information about issues to consider when developing a program, sample documents, and profiles of existing law enforcement volunteer programs.   PDF

Volunteers in Police Service Add Value While Budgets Decrease, (NCJ 236781), Bureau of Justice Assistance and the International Association of Chiefs of Police, November 2011. This publication recognizes the current state of law enforcement budgets and provides suggestions on ways to integrate volunteers to allow sworn and civilian staff to focus on more pressing law enforcement matters. Also includes program profiles that offer innovative ideas and activities in law enforcement volunteer programs.   PDF

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What Does It Mean To Practice Community Prosecution?: Organizational, Functional, and Philosophical Changes, (NCJ 207531), Bureau of Justice Assistance, M. Elaine Nugent, February 2004. After explaining the elements of community prosecution, this paper compares traditional prosecution models with the community prosecution model and then discusses the continuum, organization, and functions of community prosecution.   PDF

What is a Community Court? How the Model Is Being Adapted Across the United States, (NCJ 236850), Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Center for Court Innovation, November 2011. There are dozens of community courts in the U.S. and around the world. This paper explains how they’ve adapted key principles of problem-solving justice—such as enhanced information, community engagement, collaboration, and accountability—to local conditions.   PDF

What Policymakers Need To Know To Improve Public Defense Systems, (NCJ 190725), Bureau of Justice Assistance, Tony Fabelo, December 2001. This publication, developed by the leading figures in public defense, challenges conventional wisdom and explores new ways to serve clients and society.   Text   PDF

Why Ask About Family?: By Looking Beyond the Individual to Families and Social Supports, Corrections Officers Can Help Improve Public Safety and Other Outcomes , (NCJ 235254), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2011. This guide describes the principles of a strength-based, family-focused approach in corrections practices, policy, and reentry planning that can make a difference.   PDF

Working as Partners With Community Groups, (NCJ 148458), Bureau of Justice Assistance, 1994. Partnerships between law enforcement and community members and groups can be an effective mechanism for reducing crime, reducing the fear of crime, and developing a stronger sense of community cohesion.   Text

Working Together for Peace and Justice: Bureau of Justice Assistance Fiscal Year 1998 Annual Report to Congress, (NCJ 176326), Bureau of Justice Assistance, June 1999. BJA’s annual report to Congress for Fiscal Year 1998 on the accomplishments, activities, and future goals for the bureau. This annual report describes the funding and technical assistance provided to state and local criminal justice systems by BJA in FY 1998.   Text   PDF

Wyoming's Methamphetamine Initiative: The Power of Informed Process, (NCJ 186266), Bureau of Justice Assistance, May 2001. Wyoming's ambitious initiative to rid the State of methamphetamine and methamphetamine addiction is under way, and it marks a shift in priorities from enforcement to treatment.   Text   PDF

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