NCJ Number
173947
Date Published
1999
Length
94 pages
Annotation
Funding opportunities available from Office of Justice Programs bureaus and offices are briefly described, with information provided on the amount of funding available and who can apply and on the status of program regulations, guidelines, reports, and application kits.
Abstract
The funding opportunities are listed according to the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Corrections Program Office, the Drug Courts Program Office, the Executive Office for Weed and Seed, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office of the Assistant Attorney General, the Office of State and Local Domestic Preparedness Support, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the Violence Against Women Grants Office. The funding opportunities cover many areas, including counterterrorism, bullet-proof vests, Byrne grants, child abuse and victims, civil legal assistance, college campus violence prevention, community prosecution, and court-appointed special advocates. The funding opportunities also concern DNA identification and technology research and development, drug courts, drug prevention, tribal courts, information technology, juvenile accountability, family support, law enforcement block grants, juvenile mentoring, missing and exploited children, motor vehicle theft prevention, and the National Criminal History Improvement Program. In addition, the funding opportunities include public safety, prisons, regional information sharing systems, residential substance abuse treatment, rural domestic violence and child abuse enforcement, safe kids and safe streets, safe schools, sex offenders, criminal alien assistance, State justice statistics, telemarketing fraud prevention, underage drinking, violence against women, violent offender incarceration, truth in sentencing, and white-collar crime. The description of each funding opportunity contains information on appropriations, the grant program, eligibility, and applications and awards.