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To most practitioners, crime prevention is an art But as the U S Congress indicated in the law requiring this report, the art of crime prevention (like the art of medi-cine) can be evaluated and guided by the effectiveness of State and local crime prevention assistance programs funded by the U S Department of Justice, “with
The Action Plan describes how communities can generate solutions and how individuals and groups can prevent or reduce violence in their own block, public housing unit, or neighborhood Cooperative partnerships among justice, health, child welfare, education, and social service systems can lay the foundation for measurable suc-cesses
nal justice Develop new technologies to fight crime and improve criminal justice Evaluate the effectiveness of crim inal justice programs and identify programs that promise to be successful if continued or repeated Recommend actions that can be taken by Federal, State, and local governments as well as by private organiza
Justice Programs (OJP) has brought together former administrators of OJP and its predecessor agencies and a broad range of other criminal justice experts to examine Federal criminal justice assistance over the past three decades and what lessons this experience holds as we move to shape criminal justice policy for the future