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Information about crime mapping can be found in the following National Institute of Justice resources:

Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice
From Crime Mapping to Crime Forecasting: The Evolution of Place-Based Policing
Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety

Information about drug court funding can be found on the Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program section of the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) website. When available, funding opportunities from BJA and other Office of Justice Programs' (OJP) program offices can be found on the Current Funding Opportunities page. Opportunities from OJP and other federal agencies are also posted on the Grants.gov website when available.

To stay informed when funding opportunities are released from OJP offices on this and other topics, subscribe to the weekly Funding News from NCJRS email. You can also sign up for JUSTINFO, our electronic newsletter sent out twice each month.

To learn more about drug courts, see the Drug Courts Special Feature section of our site.

Employment opportunities for federal agencies can be found on the USAJOBS website.

The most recent edition of CrimeStat is CrimeStat IV. For additional information, see CrimeStat: Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of Crime Incident Locations, an article from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).

CrimeStat is a spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations. It provides statistical tools to aid law enforcement agencies and criminal justice researchers in their crime mapping efforts. Further information about CrimeStat can be found in the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) article, CrimeStat: Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of Crime Incident Locations.

See the Filing a Civil Rights Complaint section of our site for information and direction.

CFDA stands for Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. Every federal grant has a CFDA number assigned to it which can be found in the grant solicitation. You can learn more about CFDA numbers and associated assistance listings on the General Services Administration website.

Created by the Office of Justice Programs and operated by OJP's National Institute of Justice, the CrimeSolutions website uses rigorous research to inform practitioners and policymakers about what works in justice-related programs and practices. Visit the Courts section of the site to view research on program effectiveness reviewed and rated by CrimeSolutions Researchers and Reviewers.

Also visit the Courts section of our site for additional publications and resources.

The Online Training Courses listed on the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) website are free of charge.

See the Events section of the NIJ website to learn more about the online trainings and to view information about additional training opportunities that are available concerning the collection and use of DNA evidence.

Information on the health effects of prenatal substance abuse is available on the Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse: Prenatal Effects section of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) website.