NCJ Number
227540
Date Published
2009
Length
100 pages
Annotation
This Annual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2008 provides an overview of many of the projects undertaken by the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) in its effort to provide resources to the justice community.
Abstract
In fiscal year 2008, OJP made 3,590 grant awards to State and local law enforcement and community organizations, totaling more than $1.8 billion. In addition, OJP has provided many hours of training and technical assistance, as well as research, technology, and statistical information to law enforcement, criminal and juvenile justice practitioners, policymakers, and community organizations. The activities of OJP's bureaus and program offices for fiscal year 2008 are reported. These are the Bureau of Justice Assistance; the Bureau of Justice Statistics; the National Institute of Justice; the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; the Office for Victims of Crime; the Community Capacity Development Office; and the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking. In addition, the report describes the activities of offices within OJP that provide agencywide support. These are the Office of Administration; the Office of Audit, Assessment, and Management; the Office of the Chief Financial Officer; the Office of the Chief Information Officer; the Office for Civil Rights; the Office of Communications; the Office of General Counsel; and the Equal Employment Opportunity Office. Major sections of the report provide data and information on OJP's efforts to address the following criminal justice domains: law enforcement, the protection of communities from dangerous sex offenders, courts, corrections, gangs, juvenile justice, victims of crime, drug-related crime, research and technology to fight crime, and criminal justice statistics and data collection. Appended fiscal year 2008 awards