During this webinar, Mike Roosa and Carmen Facciolo, Policy Advisors from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), will review the Body-Worn Camera (BWC) Pilot Implementation Program (PIP) Solicitation. The BJA BWC Team will review all categories of the solicitation including: eligibility, funding metrics, rules, matching requirements and appropriate use of funds.
In this webinar, officials from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance will explain the grant program and application process. These grants will provide up to $1,000,000 for a 36-month project period to nonprofit organizations (including tribal nonprofit organizations) with a documented history of administering comprehensive, evidence-based reentry services.
While the collection of DNA evidence from property crimes by law enforcement may be rare in most of the United States, rarer still is the processing of this evidence by a forensic DNA laboratory. Laboratory backlogs and a general lack of funding and resources all play in to the myriad of reasons why property crime analysis is not a top priority for all DNA laboratories.
According to one recent study, as many as one in five female college students will be sexually assaulted in the course of her undergraduate career. According to another statistic, for every 1,000 women attending a university, there are 35 incidents of rape each academic year. Perhaps more troublingly, less than 5% of completed or attempted rapes against college women are reported to law enforcement, and reported assailants receive little or no punishment from their schools’ judicial sytems.
Over the last decade, justice and human service agencies have been under growing pressure to demonstrate that interventions and programs are not only effective but provide a solid return on investment. With a mounting body of science that shows which interventions work; decision makers are increasingly focused on how to best integrate this knowledge into program interventions, management strategies and funding decisions.
Join the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) webinar, Preparing to Return Home: Tribal-State Reentry Collaborations, to explore two examples of how communities have collaborated to aid in the successful reentry of local tribal members. First, the webinar will highlight recent efforts by the U. S.
Join the National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) webinar that will focus on what is known about internet-facilitated sexual offending, including recent research about the motivations and other psychological characteristics of internet offenders, differences between child pornography and solicitation offenders, history of contact offending, risk of recidivism, and an overview of intervention models.
Jim Bueerman, President of the Police Foundation and former chief of the Redlands, CA, police department, and Dr.
On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. EDT the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) will be hosting an informational webinar on the Adjudication and Law Enforcement National Initiatives: Improving Responses to Criminal Justice Issues Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 Competitive Grant Announcement. The purpose of this webinar is to share information about the solicitation with interested applicants.
In 2015, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is launching the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) and the SAKI National Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Program to support jurisdictions across the country as they address the issue of untested sexual assault kits (SAKs) in their possession and engage in comprehensive sexual assault response reform. The purpose of this webinar is to share information about the 2015 SAKI National TTA Program Solicitation with interested applicants.