Celebrate Safe Communities - Safe Neighborhoods and Communities

General - Publications

General - Related Resources

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
The mission of BJA is to provide leadership and services in grant administration and criminal justice policy development to support local, state, and tribal justice strategies to achieve safer communities.

Citizen Corps
Citizen Corps is a nationwide program that promotes volunteer activities that support community safety and homeland security. Citizen Corps programs and partners build on the successful efforts that are in place in many communities across the United States to prevent crime and respond to emergencies.

Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO)
The mission of CCDO is to work with local communities to design strategies for deterring crime, promoting economic growth, and enhancing quality of life.

National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC)
NCPC produces tools that communities can use to learn crime prevention strategies, engage community members, and coordinate with local agencies.

Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN)
PSN is a nationwide commitment to reduce gun crime in the United States by networking existing local programs that target gun crime and providing those programs with additional tools needed for success.

Safety and Preparedness Special Feature
This NCJRS Special Feature provides concerned citizens, service providers, allied professionals, and military families with information on citizen preparedness, including publications and related resources on citizen preparedness in the community.

Weed and Seed Program
Weed and Seed aims to prevent, control, and reduce violent crime, drug abuse and gang activity in designated high-crime neighborhoods across the country.

Search the NCJRS Abstracts Database and visit the Crime Prevention: Community Responses section of our site for additional publications and resources on this topic.

Data on Crime and Law Enforcement - Publications

Data on Crime and Law Enforcement - Related Resources

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
The mission of BJS is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. See BJS's Crime & Justice Data Online for specific data on crime and justice agencies at the state and local level.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program
Through its annual publications, the UCR Program compiles the volume and rate of crime offenses for the nation, the states, and individual agencies. The UCR Program also reports on the number of law enforcement officers killed or assaulted in the line of duty each year.

Visit the Crime and Law Enforcement sections of our site for additional publications and resources on this topic.

Gangs - Publications

Gangs - Related Resources

In the Spotlight: Gangs
This section of the NCJRS Web site contains comprehensive information on gangs, including facts and figures, legislation, publications, programs, training and technical assistance, and grants and funding.

National Gang Center (NGC)
NGC is a collaborative effort between the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). The NGC Web site links to the latest information on anti-gang programs and links to a wide range of resources.

Search the NCJRS Abstracts Database and visit the Crime: Gang Crime and Juvenile Justice: Gangs sections of our site for additional publications and resources on this topic.

Neighborhood Watch and Safety - Publications

Neighborhood Watch and Safety - Related Resources

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
The mission of BJA is to provide leadership and services in grant administration and criminal justice policy development to support local, state, and tribal justice strategies to achieve safer communities.

National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC)
NCPC produces tools that communities can use to learn crime prevention strategies, engage community members, and coordinate with local agencies.

Neighborhood Safety Network (NSN): Safety Tool Kit
The NSN Safety Tool Kit was created by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to help keep people safe in and around their homes.

Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN)
PSN is a nationwide commitment to reduce gun crime in the United States by networking existing local programs that target gun crime and providing those programs with additional tools needed for success.

USAonWatch 
The National Sheriffs' Association, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice, launched the USAonWatch site to be the face of the National Neighborhood Watch initiative. USAonWatch empowers citizens to become active in community efforts through participation in Neighborhood Watch groups.

Weed and Seed
Weed and Seed aims to prevent, control, and reduce violent crime, drug abuse and gang activity in designated high-crime neighborhoods across the country.

Search the NCJRS Abstracts Database for additional publications and resources on this topic.

Reentry - Publications

Reentry - Related Resources

National Reentry Resource Center
Sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the National Reentry Resource Center provides education, training, and technical assistance to states, tribes, territories, local governments, service providers, nonprofit organizations, and corrections agencies working on prisoner reentry.

Prisoner Reentry
This Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Web site provides a wealth of resources about offender reentry, including the Reentry Resource Map, which provides information at the Federal, state, and local levels that are relevant to the field of reentry.

Reentry Trends in the United States
This section of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Web site presents data on inmates returning to the community after serving time in prison.

Search the NCJRS Abstracts Database and visit the Corrections: Reentry/Release section of our site for additional publications and resources on this topic.

Sex Offenders in the Community - Publications

Sex Offenders - Related Resources

Center for Sex Offender Management (CSOM)
CSOM is an Office of Justice Programs (OJP) project that supports state and local jurisdictions in the effective management of sex offenders under community supervision.

National Sex Offender Public Web Site
This Web site allows access to public information regarding the presence or location of offenders, who, in most cases, have been convicted of sexually-violent offenses against adults and children and certain sexual contact and other crimes against victims who are minors.

Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART) Office
The mission of the SMART Office is to ensure that convicted sex offenders are prohibited from preying on citizens through a system of appropriate restrictions, regulations, and internment.

Sex Offenders Special Feature
This NCJRS Special Feature contains publications and links to materials and Web sites related to offender registration, community notification, offender supervision and management, as well as offender treatment and recidivism.

Search the NCJRS Abstracts Database and visit the Justice System: Sex Offender Registries section of our site for additional publications and resources on this topic.

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