Structured Decision-Making: Using Risk Assessment Outputs to Improve Practice
This guide summarizes the principles for using risk assessment instruments in decision-making and provides detailed guidance for each stage of the criminal justice system.
Justice system
Final Report Tipsheet: Performance Measurement Tool
Date Published
July 2020
Agencies
BJA-Sponsored
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Instructional Material,
Grants and Funding
President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice Holds Hearing on Rural and Tribal Justice
The Commission recently held a hearing on rural and tribal justice over three days via teleconference.
In Session and on Purpose
This blog post highlights BJA's commitment to the drug court mission.
National Center on Restorative Justice
The National Center on Restorative Justice educates and trains the next generation of juvenile and criminal justice leaders, advances knowledge through data and research, and supports training for the criminal justice field.
COSSAP Tribal Responses to Drug Overdoses Solicitation Available
On behalf of BJA, the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) has released the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program (COSSAP) Tribal Responses to Drug Overdoses solicitation.
This is part of a series of demonstration projects funded under COSSAP, which are designed to build capacity, foster cross-sector collaboration, and support innovation.
This solicitation is designed to assist federally recognized tribes in identifying resource deployment strategies...
FY 2020 National Center on Restorative Justice
Closing Date
Strategies for Policing Innovation Funding Available
BJA is seeking applications for funding through the FY 2020 Strategies for Policing Innovation opportunity.
FY 2020 Strategies for Policing Innovation
Closing Date
Register for Webinar: Trauma-Informed Care Across the Intercepts
Register for a March 19, 2020, webinar for an overview of the core principles of trauma-informed care, best practices for using it at each intercept point within the Sequential Intercept Model, and more.
Justice Reinvestment Initiative Solicitation Released
BJA is seeking applications for funding through the FY 2020 Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Reducing Violent Crime by Improving Justice System Performance opportunity.
The Justice Reinvestment Initiative enables criminal justice systems to improve their business management and operations processes by addressing the complex factors that drive crime and use of criminal justice system resources.
Learn more about this opportunity and apply by 11:59 p.m. ET on May 1, 2020.
Funding Available through the Intellectual Property Enforcement Program
BJA is seeking applications for funding through the FY 2020 Intellectual Property Enforcement Program: Protecting Public Health, Safety, and the Economy from Counterfeit Goods and Product Piracy solicitation.
The Intellectual Property Enforcement Program (IPEP) is designed to improve the capacity of state, local, tribal, and territorial criminal justice systems to address intellectual property (IP) enforcement, including prosecution, prevention, and training and technical assistance. Funding awards...