Resource Results

This fact sheet presents Bureau of Justice Assistance resources that assist prosecutors perform their critical role within the criminal justice system and within the communities they serve.

The research in this report demonstrates that both crashes and crime are spatially clustered and can be affected by police visibility and contacts. An effective strategic approach must maximize efforts in spatial clustering of crash and crime to be the most economical and impactful. Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS 2.0) is an operational model supported by a partnership among NHTSA and several major national law enforcement agencies.

This guide explains the features of the federal Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI), how it is implemented in a state, and the potential benefits of each stage of a JRI implementation.

In this article from the National Institute of Justice’s “Notes from the Field” series, representatives from the Miami-Dade Police Department, Forensic Services Bureau, discuss their forensic intelligence initiative and the use of the ShotSpotter system.

This report presents the methodology and findings of the first-of-its kind national, federally funded survey of law enforcement-led diversion and first-responder deflection (FRD) programs built on the five pathways of deflection from the justice system of drug-related cases that stem from significant increases in the number of fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses. 

This article details how National Institute of Justice-funded researchers analyzed research reports from independent studies, concluding that programs specifically designed to prevent or curb cyberbullying are better at reducing cyberbullying than general anti-bullying programs.

This bulletin documents the latest trends in arrests involving juveniles by drawing on arrest estimates developed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Juvenile Justice based on analyses of data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting program.

This report was compiled in September 2020 and includes detailed case studies for all six states funded by the FYs 2016 and 2017 Maximizing State Reforms Grant Program. Each case study provides context for how the program has supported each state’s JRI objectives, the activities and projects that have been implemented, the accomplishments and outcomes achieved so far, and implementation lessons learned.