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Justice Trends & Promising Practices

NCJA strives to help Byrne JAG administrators and recipients and other justice stakeholders stay up-to-date with what’s happening and what’s working in criminal justice practice, policy and reform. This page contains resources describing ways that states and localities might invest Byrne JAG awards—both trending topics and programs that have shown promise.  

 

The content and links below are organized along the nine Byrne JAG program areas across which funds may be invested, as defined by the legislation that codifies the program. They encompass nearly every aspect of justice system operation, making Byrne JAG an extremely flexible program.  

This page will grow and change as we add more resources!  

Spending Purpose Areas

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Byrne JAG Program Areas FFY 20 Investments - See how states and territories invested Byrne JAG funding across all program areas in 2020. 

Law Enforcement
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Planning, Evaluation and Technology Improvement 
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Crime Victim and Witness Programs (other than compensation)
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Do you fund, operate or know of a Promising Practice we should highlight? Reach out to us at strategicplanning@ncja.org.

Innovation Labs

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NCJA’s Innovation Labs bring together state administering agency (SAA) staff and stakeholders from across the country to brainstorm solutions to common challenges, discuss promising practices and develop recommendations.

Strategies for Diversifying Your Funding and Subawards Innovation Lab

This lab provided working sessions for discussing resource development, best and promising practices, and program implementation to identify ways for SAAs to diversify where they allocated their spending and strategies for working with subawardees to ensure all sectors of the criminal justice system are represented.

Data Sharing and Meeting Federal Reporting Requirements

This lab provided working sessions for discussing resource development, best and promising practices, and program implementation to improve data sharing and increase understanding of and ability to meet federal reporting requirements in participants’ states.

Supporting Innovations in the Law Enforcement Program Area

This lab provided working sessions for discussing resource development, best and promising practices, and program implementation to identify ways for SAAs to innovate within the law enforcement program area, which can include innovating within programming itself as well as making changes to the grants cycle.

This webpage was created with the support of Grant No. 2019-YA-BX-K002 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the SMART Office, and the Office for Victims of Crime. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. 

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