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• Crime against People with Disabilities, 2008

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  "In households in the United States, persons age 12 or older with disabilities experienced approximately 730,000 nonfatal violent crimes and 1.8 million property crimes in 2008. This excludes persons living in institutions. Nonfatal violent crimes include rape, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault. Property crimes include household burglary, motor vehicle theft, and property theft. Disability is defined as a sensory, physical, mental, or emotional condition lasting 6 months or longer that makes it difficult for a person to perform activities of daily living. About 37% of the violent crimes against persons with disabilities in 2008 were serious violent crimes: rape or sexual assault (40,000), robbery (116,000), or aggravated assault (115,000). Persons with disabilities also were victims of about 459,000 simple assaults in 2008."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Rand, Michael R.; Harrell, Erika, 1976-

  2010-12
• Reducing Violent Crime Though Improved Law Enforcement Strategies and Building Community Relations

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  "Faced with rising numbers of homicides-even though violent crime numbers were down-increasing media attention about the safety of Gary residents and economic challenges impacting the city's capacity to address public safety, Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson reached out to the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Diagnostic Center in January 2013 for assistance. The City of Gary, IN requested help in identifying and implementing data-driven strategies that target factors contributing to homicides and youth-related violent crime. The Diagnostic Center worked with GPD [Gary Police Department] and the City of Gary to assess crime issues and to determine the GPD's and the City of Gary's operational capability. Partnering with local, state and federal organizations, the Diagnostic Center talked with a broad range of law enforcement, academic and government organizations to determine both the challenges and possible models for response. Indiana University Northwest, Indiana State Police, the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Indiana, numerous federal and local law enforcement agencies, task forces and a variety of community groups and citizens all had input into the assessment and recommendation effort. After completing the in-depth Diagnostic Analysis, the Diagnostic Center matched a series of recommendations and data-driven models to address the City of Gary's needs and presented its findings and recommendations to the community."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs
• Framework for Justice Information Sharing: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) [September 28, 2004]

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  "The purpose of this report is to describe the recommendation of the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Advisory Committee (GAC) for the design and development of an information system architecture that will support both the operational requirements of justice agencies and the requirements for a national system for information sharing among the justice community. It is intended for the manager and policymaker who are responsible for providing the leadership, resources, and management of the justice community. Technologists are already addressing the questions of design, software, and hardware. The more important issues of how service-oriented architecture (SOA) will serve the business concerns of the justice community must still be confronted. Only the police, prosecutors, public defenders, judges, court managers, probation officers, corrections officers, and their cohorts in relevant fields, who are responsible for leading and managing their agencies, can resolve these issues. It is to them we commend this report."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2004-09-28
• Using Federal Law To Prosecute Domestic Violence Crimes in Indian Country [video]

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  This short video provides "guidance on how to successfully prosecute in federal court domestic violence offenders who commit crimes in Indian Country. The video incorporates case studies of actual prosecutions [...]. The materials also discuss circumstances common in tribal domestic violence prosecutions, such as offender recidivism, recanting victims, safety planning, and federal and tribal criminal justice and social service professionals working collaboratively to ensure victims' safety and community justice."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2012-10?
• DNA: Critical Issues for Those Who Work With Victims [video]

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  This short video describes the importance of obtaining DNA samples from victims of crimes. Obtaining DNA is an important part of detaining a suspect and convicting perpetrators.

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2007-04?
• Understanding Pathways to and Away from Violent Radicalization among Resettled Somali Refugees

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  "The overall objective of the proposed project was to understand pathways to diverse outcomes among Somali immigrants: why do some embrace greater openness to violent extremism, while others with shared life histories move towards gangs, crime, or resilient outcomes such as civic engagement? To what degree do these outcomes overlap? In this project we empirically examined the principle of multifinality, or pathways leading from a shared refugee experience to multiple outcomes. Understanding these different trajectories, and the factors that shape an individual's progress towards diverse outcomes, provides critical information to local and state government agencies as they respond to the potential threat of domestic radicalization."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Ellis, Beverley Heidi, 1972-; Bixby, Colleen; Miller, Alisa B. . . .

  2016-11
• Understanding and Measuring Bias Victimization Against Latinos

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  From the Introduction: "This study utilizes a community-based survey that provides information about the nature and pattern of bias motivated victimization among Latinos, with particular emphasis on understanding bias motivated crimes against immigrants to answers five main questions. Key Study Questions: 1. What is the nature and pattern of bias motivated victimization among immigrant and non-immigrant populations residing in high Latino population communities? 2. How frequently and in what ways does bias motivated victimization occur with other forms of victimization in immigrant and non-immigrant populations residing in high Latino population communities? 3. How often and in what ways do those immigrant and non-immigrant victims who experience bias motivated victimization report their victimization and/or seek help through formal and informal mechanisms? 4. What are cultural factors that potentially contribute to bias victimization risk? 5. Does bias victimization have a unique contribution to negative psychosocial outcomes associated with victimization generally? For example, does bias victimization lead to negative mental health outcomes that are above-and-beyond that of other forms of victimization?"

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Cuevas, Carlos A.; Farrell, Amy; McDevitt, Jack, 1953- . . .

  2019-10
• Identity Theft, 2005

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  "In 2005, 6.4 million households, representing 5.5% of all households in the United States, discovered that at least one member experienced one or more types of identity theft. This is the first full year of data on identity theft available from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Questions on identity theft were first added to the NCVS in July 2004."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2007-11
• Victims of Identity Theft, 2008

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  "Approximately 11.7 million persons, representing 5% of all persons age 16 or older in the United States,1 were victims of one or more types of identity theft within a 2-year period (figure 1). The most common type of identity theft, experienced by 6.2 million people during the 2-year reporting period, was the unauthorized use of an existing credit card account. This report is based on data from the 2008 Identity Theft Supplement (ITS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). From January to June of 2008, the NCVS-ITS collected data from persons who had experienced one or more attempted or successful incidents of identity theft during the 2 years preceding their interviews."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Langton, Lynn; Planty, Michael

  2010-12-14
• Federal Justice Statistics, 2005

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  "The U.S. Marshals Service arrested and booked 140,200 suspects in 2005, up from 83,324 in 1995. Material witness, immigration, and weapons were the fastest growing arrest offenses during this period. In 2005, immigration (27%) was the most prevalent arrest offense followed by drug (24%) and supervision violations (17%). Five federal judicial districts along the U.S.-Mexico border accounted for 40% of all suspects arrested and booked by the U.S. Marshals Service in 2005. The federal government reorganized key federal law enforcement agencies following the passage of the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Since 2002, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has accounted for a growing share of suspects referred for federal prosecution compared to other federal law enforcement agencies. DHS agencies referred 45% of all suspects in 2004 and 2005, compared to 33% referred by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Referrals by the U.S. Department of Treasury decreased from 20% in 2001 and 2002 to 2% in 2004 and 2005."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2008-09
• Test Results for Mobile Device Acquisition Tool: Guidance Software Neutrino 1.4.14

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  "This document reports the results from testing Guidance Software Neutrino, version 1.4.14, against the GSM Mobile Device and Associated Media Tool Specification and Test Plan Version 1.1, available at the CFTT Web site." "The Computer Forensics Tool Testing (CFTT) program is a joint project of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research and development organization of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST's) Office of Law Enforcement Standards and Information Technology Laboratory. CFTT is supported by other organizations, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, U.S. Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division Electronic Crimes Program, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Secret Service. The objective of the CFTT program is to provide measurable assurance to practitioners, researchers, and other applicable users that the tools used in computer forensics investigations provide accurate results. Accomplishing this requires the development of specifications and test methods for computer forensics tools and subsequent testing of specific tools against those specifications."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2008-10
• Victims With Disabilities: Collaborative, Multidisciplinary First Response: Techniques for First Responders Called to Help Crime Victims Who Have Disabilities

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  This training guide "provides a specific set of guidelines for first responders (e.g., law enforcement officers, paramedics, victim advocates, forensic interviewers) who have been called to the scene of a crime in which the victim has a disability. It is designed to help these professionals hone their ability to work with individuals who present specific challenges to a successful first response. Developed under the guidance of a national advisory board, this DVD provides guidelines for interacting with both adults and children, and places special emphasis on crime victims who have communication and/or intellectual disabilities. Intellectual disabilities, which involve the mental process of knowing, include disabilities such as mental retardation and autism. [Note: Despite the fact that the term retardation is considered pejorative by many in the disability community, this term remains current in diagnostic nomenclature and is therefore used in this guide.] Communication disabilities, which have to do with physical involvements that interfere with a person's ability to convey information and ideas, include disabilities associated with speech production (e.g., cerebral palsy, stroke). Crime rates that involve crimes against children and adults with disabilities far exceed rates of crime against individuals who do not have disabilities. [...] Although research on the crime victimization of individuals with disabilities is sparse, the findings are consistent that crime rates are much higher within this population. Additionally, individuals who acquire disabilities as a result of crime victimization represent a significant number each year, but public recognition of both of these populations continues to be all but absent."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2009
• Crime against People with Disabilities, 2007

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  "Persons age 12 or older with disabilities experienced approximately 716,000 nonfatal violent crimes and 2.3 million property crimes in 2007 as measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Nonfatal violent crimes include rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. Property crimes include household burglary, motor vehicle theft, and property theft.* About one third (34%) of the crimes against persons with or without a disability in 2007 were serious violent crimes (rape/sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated assault). Persons with disabilities were victims of about 47,000 rapes, 79,000 robberies, 114,000 aggravated assaults, and 476,000 simple assaults. Findings in this report are the first estimates of crime against people with disabilities measured by the NCVS, administered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The NCVS adopted questions from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) to identify respondents who had a disability. Disability is defined as a long-lasting (six months or more) sensory, physical, mental, or emotional condition that makes it difficult for a person to perform daily living activities. The NCVS questions identified six types of disabilities: sensory, physical, cognitive functioning, self-care, go-outside-the-home, and employment (see box, page 3)."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Rand, Michael R.; Harrell, Erika, 1976-

  2009-10
• Remarks of the Honorable Deborah J. Daniels Assistant, Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, at the National Criminal Justice Association National Forum 2002: 'Security and Justice in Times of Terrorism - The Criminal Justice System's New Challenge'

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  Daniels addresses some of the terrorism-related challenges now facing criminal justice planners, policymakers, and practitioners, and how we can work together to effectively meet those challenges.

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2002-07-29
• Applying Security Practices to Justice Information Sharing (Draft)

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  The purpose of this document is to educate justice executives and managers on good, basic, foundational security practices that they can deploy within their enterprise and between multiple enterprises.

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Intelligence

  2003-09
• National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan: Solutions and Approaches for a Cohesive Plan to Improve Our Nation's Ability to Share Criminal Intelligence

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  This report outlines specific "action steps" that can be taken immediately by almost any agency and what can be expected by performing those steps. The portion of the report titled "The Rationale for the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan" should be carefully reviewed, as it provides an in-depth discussion of the issues and recommendations presented in the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan. The GIWG (Global Intelligence Working Group) identified several issues that were viewed as inhibitors of intelligence development and sharing. The GIWG expressed these issues as needs when formulating recommendations for the national plan. One of the key issues acknowledged by the GIWG was the need to overcome the long-standing and substantial barriers that hinder intelligence sharing. Examples include the "hierarchy" within the law enforcement and intelligence communities and deficits in intelligence. Overcoming the barriers that impede information and intelligence sharing is a continuous endeavor that will require a firm commitment by all levels of government, and the implementation of the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan will most certainly assist in this undertaking.

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Intelligence

  2003-10
• Criminal Intelligence File Guidelines

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  The purpose of this policy to provide law enforcement officers in general, and officers assigned to the intelligence function in particular, with guidelines and principles for the collection, analysis, and distribution of intelligence information. in these guidlines, a criminal intelligence file is defined, guidelines are included on file content, file criteria, information evaluation and classification, information sources and quality control, and file dissemination.

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit

  2002-03
• Core Criminal Intelligence Training Standards for United States Law Enforcement and Other Criminal Justice Agencies

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  The purpose of these standards is to establish core concepts, principles, and practices within the law enforcement criminal intelligence function. This, in turn, will promote the sharing of information and increase cooperation among law enforcement to better protect the public from criminal enterprises and threats. The Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Intelligence Working Group (GIWG) Training Committee adopted the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Summit participants' training recommendations that all levels of law enforcement need to be trained in intelligence. Otherwise, intelligence could become solely the focus of a small unit within the department, rather than being part of the core mission in which all levels of the department are involved. The GIWG Training Committee focused on developing a train-the-trainer component and establishing standards for police executives, managers of criminal intelligence/investigative functions, general law enforcement officers, intelligence officers, and intelligence analysts. The Committee's first goal was to identify specific training topics and issues for each level of personnel involved in the intelligence process. Their second goal was to make specific recommendations for training objectives and the delivery of training. Their third goal is to work with relevant agencies and groups to develop model curricula.

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Intelligence

  2000
• Global Intelligence Working Group Information /Intelligence Sharing System Survey

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  This document outlines the parameters of the Global Intelligence Working Group survey on information/intelligence sharing and a summary of the results.

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative Intelligence

  2003
• Office of Justice Programs Annual Report to Congress: Fiscal Year 2007

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  "This Annual Report provides an overview of many of the projects undertaken by the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in an effort to fulfill the vision of providing unparalleled resources to the justice community. The report is required pursuant to sections 102(b) and 810 of Public Law 90-351, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 [42 U.S.C. 3712(b), 3789e]. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2007, in the absence of earmarks, OJP administered additional discretionary funding. OJP draws on a wealth of knowledge supported by research and many years of staff experience to ensure that the funds allocated by Congress reach those programs most able to meet the needs identified by OJP. OJP employees collaborate extensively with criminal justice organizations to facilitate further progress in the criminal justice field. Significant efforts are made to disseminate information on promising practices and proven approaches to increasing safety across the country. The information contained in this report provides an accounting of many of these efforts to lead and support criminal justice programming around the country. Several OJP bureaus also submit Annual Reports to Congress that cumulatively provide a more comprehensive look at OJP programming. Therefore, this report does not attempt to include all OJP programs."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2008
• Crime and Place: Plenary Papers of the 1997 Conference on Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation

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  "The Annual Conference on Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation is a distinctive forum. It is the major annual event at which federally sponsored criminal justice research is showcased. Federal sponsorship means recognition at the highest level of government of the need for and value of empirically based, objective research in the field. It also ensures that the projects funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), as well as the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and other bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs will respond to the needs of practitioners-police chiefs and sheriffs, district attorneys, judges, and correctional officials and administrators, among others- as the major 'consumers' of research findings. Each paper explores a variation on the 1997 conference theme, 'crime and place.' For a number of reasons, researchers are revisiting at the microlevel the locations where crime is committed and at the macrolevel community involvement with criminal justice agencies in addressing crime. Not least among these reasons are the advent of computerized mapping as an aid to tracking and studying crime, the trend toward devolution of government to the local level and, perhaps, the need to recover a sense of community. With law enforcement leading the way, other components of the criminal justice system are redefining their visions and missions to better address crime within the context of community."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Taylor, Ralph B.; Bazemore, S. Gordon; Boland, Barbara

  1998-07
• Spatial Analyses of Crime

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  "The new century brings with it growing interest in crime places. This interest spans theory from the perspective of understanding the etiology of crime, and practice from the perspective of developing effective criminal justice interventions to reduce crime. We do not attempt a comprehensive treatment of the substantial body of theoretical and empirical research on place and crime but focus instead on methodological issues in spatial statistical analyses of crime data. Special attention is given to some practical and accessible methods of exploratory data analysis that arguably should be the starting place of any empirical analyses of the relationship of place to crime. Many of the capabilities to support computerized mapping and spatial statistical analyses emerged only recently during the 1990s. The promise of using spatial data and analyses for crime control still remains to be demonstrated and depends on the nature of the relationship between crime and place. If spatial features serve as actuating factors for crime, either because of the people who or facilities that are located there, then interventions designed to alter those persons and activities might well affect crime. Alternatively, if the spatial distribution of crime is essentially random, then targeting specific places is not likely to be an effective crime control strategy. Sorting out the place/crime relationship requires analytical methods that are best suited to isolating the impacts of place on crime."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Anselin, Luc, 1953-; Cohen, Jacqueline; Gorr, Wilpen L.

  2000-07
• CrimeSolutions.gov [website]

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  The Office of Justice Programs' CrimeSolutions.gov uses rigorous research to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services. On the CrimeSolutions.gov website you will find research on program effectiveness reviewed and rated by CrimeSolutions.gov Researchers and Reviewers. You will also find, easily understandable ratings based on the evidence that indicates whether a program achieves its goals: Programs are evaluated as, Effective, Promising or No Effects made. On this website you will also find Key program information and research findings.

  United States. Office of Justice Programs
• Information Quality: The Foundation for Justice Decision Making

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  "Technology assistance is now available to law enforcement agencies that are in the process of procuring or updating either a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system or records management system (RMS). With support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council (LEITSC) announces a technical assistance program that will provide law enforcement agencies with an opportunity to work with the Standard Functional Specifications for Law Enforcement CAD Systems and the Standard Functional Specifications for Law Enforcement RMS. These tools provide significant guidance to agencies developing a request for proposal (RFP) for purchasing or upgrading CAD systems or RMS. The Technology Assistance Program is an opportunity for agencies to obtain technology assistance and consulting services as they adopt standard functional specifications for law enforcement CAD systems or RMS or both or as they implement the Information Exchange Package Documentations (IEPDs) Recent events, such as terrorist threats and catastrophic natural disasters, have revealed a critical need for increasing information sharing capacities across disciplines, jurisdictions, agencies, and geographic areas. As these needs are increasingly addressed by the application of new technologies and cross-agency interaction, it is imperative to also focus on information quality. The justice system depends on information sharing. With the rapid proliferation and evolution of new technologies, increased data sharing requires increased responsibility for information quality to ensure sound justice decision making."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2007-02
• Hate Crime in America: The Debate Continues

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  "In December 2000, in Brooklyn, New York, Mohammad Awad punched Cham Spear while yelling obscenties and anti-Semitic remarks. In nearby Queens, Nicholas Minucci, a Caucasian, fractured the skull of African American Glenn Moore with a baseball bat and robbed him in June 2005. Witnesses testified that Minucci used a racial slur before and during the attack. In October 1998, near Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney robbed, beat, and tied Matthew Shepard, a gay man, to a fence. Five days after the attack, Shepard died from his injures. In Houston, Texas, David Tuck attacked and sexually assaulted a Hispanic teenager in April 2006. Tuck shouted 'white power' and racial slurs during the attack. Awad and Minucci were each convicted of a hate crime. Wyoming, where Shepard was murdered, does not have a hate-crime statute. Houston authorities did not charge Tuck with a hate crime because the charges against him already carried a life sentence. In many cases, hate may be seen or perceived by the victims, their families, witnesses, and even law enforcement to be the motivation for a crime, but perpetrators may not be charged with a hate crime for a variety of reasons-many of the same reasons that the debate on hate-crime laws continues in this country."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  Shively, Michael; Mulford, Carrie F.

  2007-06
• Privacy and Information: Quality Policy Development for the Justice Decision Maker

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  "This document introduces the framework for a systematic consideration of privacy and information quality policies and practices within your agency. A companion Privacy Policy Development Guide has been designed by the U.S. Department of Justice's Global Privacy and Information Quality Working Group to assist your team in its efforts to develop or revise agency privacy and information quality policies."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2005-09
• Intelligence Database Procedures and Protocols

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  This document provides information on: criminal intelligence database descriptions, access to the criminal intelligence database, protocols for access, main index entries, dissemination, update of purge or materials, sanctions, monitoring and auditing, disaster preparedness, and changes to protocol.

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2006
• Minimum Criminal Intelligence Training Standards for United States Law Enforcement and Other Criminal Justice Agencies, 2004

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  "This report reflects the collaborative observations and recommendations pertaining to core minimum criminal intelligence training standards. In order to effectively support criminal and terrorist investigations, law enforcement personnel must receive accurate, timely, and relevant intelligence and information. Information sharing among law enforcement and public safety agencies is a fundamental relationship needed to ensure success. Improving and enhancing criminal intelligence training, through core minimum standards, increase the ability of law enforcement personnel to detect, prevent, and solve crimes, while raising the professionalism and magnitude of the field."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2004-09
• Applying Security Practices to Justice Information Sharing

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  "The purpose of this document is to educate justice executives and managers on good, basic, foundational security practices that they can deploy within their enterprise and between multiple enterprises. The long-term goal is to enable an environment of electronic trust among law enforcement and justice organizations. Electronic trust will be engendered if each organization can be assured that all parties with access to shared information follow certain minimum practices to safeguard that information. An environment of electronic trust is a minimum requirement for us to begin to fulfill the national priority of sharing information and improving the safety of the country."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2004-03
• Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties: Policy Templates for Justice Information Systems

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  "The policy templates were developed for use by law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, courts, or other justice system agencies or jurisdictions at the local, state, regional, tribal, territorial, or federal level. The templates were designed to cover a range of computer based justice information systems, including: An incident- or event-based records management system (RMS); An offender-based information system (OBIS) or offender-based tracking system (OBTS); A case management system (CMS) used by an agency or court; An integrated criminal justice information system (often referred to as IJIS or CJIS) supporting the activities of several agencies and related courts; A criminal history record information (CHRI) system; A criminal intelligence gathering system (CIS); A corrections or jail management system (JMS); or a justice information sharing network through which information in one or more of the above systems is shared with users of all systems involved."

  United States. Office of Justice Programs

  2006-09