Frequently Asked Questions

JUVJUST is an electronic listserv produced by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), which provides email subscribers with the latest announcements of relevant OJJDP publications, programs, funding opportunities, events, and news items. To subscribe, visit the Subscribe to JUVJUST page.

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.

JUSTSTATS is an electronic listserv from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) that is used to announce new crime and justice statistical materials as they become available from BJS. To subscribe, visit the JUSTSTATS section of the BJS website.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance's Public Safety Officers' Benefits Program (PSOB) provide benefits for public safety officers who have been permanently and totally disabled by a catastrophic personal injury sustained in the line-of-duty if that injury permanently prevents the officer from performing any substantial and gainful work. The PSOB Program website provides information about the program, answers to frequently asked questions, and contact information for PSOB staff.

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.