Peer Reviewers

Are You a Peer Reviewer?

See the OJP Peer Reviewer Resources below to help you get started.

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)

BJA reviewers reflect various backgrounds and have knowledge, experience, and expertise, across a wide range of justice-related and community safety areas including, but not limited to:

• Crime prevention
• Community-based violence reduction
• Criminal justice reform
• Law enforcement
• Gang and gun crime
• Prosecution
• Courts and adjudication
• Corrections and community corrections
• Reentry and recidivism reduction
• Tribal justice
• School safety
• Forensic sciences
• Mental health and crisis intervention services
• Alcohol and substance use disorder prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services
• Information sharing and technology
• Evaluation, research, and statistics

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

BJS reviewers have criminal justice statistical expertise, as well as knowledge and experience across a wide range of justice-related areas, including, but not limited to:

• Adjudication and courts
• Corrections
• Crime victimization
• Dating violence
• Detention facilities
• Domestic violence
• Elder abuse
• Electronic/cyber crime
• Evaluation, research, and statistics
• Fraud and identity theft
• Guns/firearms
• Hate and bias crimes
• Information sharing and technology
• Intimate partner violence victims and victim intervention
• Justice systems
• Juvenile justice
• Law enforcement
• Parole
• Prosecution
• Recidivism
• Reentry
• Rape/sexual assault
• Specialty courts
• Tribal justice
• Violence against women
• Violent crimes

National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

NIJ reviewers reflect various backgrounds and have research knowledge, professional expertise, and experience across a wide range of justice-relevant areas, including, but not limited to:

• Crime control and prevention
• Community-based violence reduction
• Criminology, law enforcement, or corrections
• Criminal justice reform
• Computer sciences
• Investigative and forensic science and technology, including DNA analysis research and development
• Justice systems and youth-based interventions
• Law enforcement technologies
• Violence, victimization, and trauma-informed responses.
• Health sciences
• Economic

Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)

OVC reviewers have relevant knowledge and experience in areas of victim assistance, including, but not limited, to:

• Child and elder abuse
• Compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma
• Criminal justice or legal advocacy
• Domestic violence and sexual assault
• Female genital mutilation and cutting
• Fraud and identity theft
• Homicide
• Human trafficking
• Law enforcement response to victims of crime
• Mass violence and crisis response
• Victim compensation
• Victim impact
• Victims with disabilities
• Victims' rights

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)

OJJDP reviewers have juvenile justice-related knowledge and expertise in areas including:

• Gangs
• Mentoring
• Substance abuse
• Tribal juvenile justice
• Internet crimes against children

Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART)

SMART Office reviewers have experience and expertise in the following areas:

• Criminology, law enforcement, and corrections
• Sex offender management
• Juvenile justice
• Tribal communities
• Victim services
• Sex offender treatment and monitoring
• Information technology

OJP Peer Reviewer Resources

If you have been selected as an OJP Peer Reviewer, you will need to register with the Department of Justice’s Digital Identity & Access Management Directory System (DIAMD) to proceed to the next step in accessing the Justice Grants System (JustGrants) where applications are peer reviewed.

Peer Reviewer Job Aid Reference Guide
This job aid reference guide will assist you to:

• Register in JustGrants
• Access the Peer Review Portal
• Perform initial and collaboration assessments