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The Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, has a list of resources on its web page for Preparing the Justice System for a Pandemic Influenza and Other Public Health Emergencies. The resources cover the entire criminal justice spectrum, including training and assisting Neighborhood Watches.
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Crime Prevention Through Environment Design (CPTED) theories contend that law enforcement officers, architects, city planners, landscape and interior designers, and resident volunteers can create a climate of safety in a community by designing a physical environment that positively influences human behavior. CPTED is based on four principles: natural access control, natural surveillance, territoriality, and maintenance. NCPC’s course helps participants put the theories behind CPTED into action for their communities by designing a hands-on, interactive, three- or five-day basic or advanced training program specifically designed to your community’s needs. To inquire about pricing or to schedule a training program in your community, contact Sarita Coletrane at NCPC, 202-262-4162 or Coletrane@ncpc.org. NCPC’s CPTED training program is a registered provider for the American Institute of Architects’ Continuing Education Systems. The completion of this training constitutes approximately 21 Health, Safety, and Welfare Learning Units.
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As spring unfolds, school sports head into their championships. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America has a section on its website about performance-enhancing drugs. Different messages and data sets are aimed at coaches, parents, and youth. The site also includes a blog for coaches.
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National Police Week will be marked this year from May 10 – 16. The annual candlelight vigil will be held May 13 at the National Law Enforcement Officers’ Memorial in Washington, DC, followed by a conference in Alexandria, VA, on May 14 and May 16, and a memorial service May 15 at the United States Capitol. National Police Week is sponsored by Concerns of Police Survivors.
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The International Association of Chiefs of Police and Science Applications International Corporation are sponsoring an annual award to recognize law enforcement agencies that have developed and implemented creative and effective law enforcement volunteer programs. Up to three winners will be selected.
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The NIJ Conference 2009 will bring together criminal justice scholars, policy makers, and practitioners at the local, state, and federal levels to share the most recent findings from research and technology. This year’s conference, like others in the series, will showcase what works, what doesn’t works, and what the research shows to be promising. New this year: The DNA Grantees Workshop, formerly a separate event, will be an integral part of the conference. The conference will take place in Arlington, VA, just outside Washington, DC, from June 15 – 17.
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A new online resource from the National Sheriffs’ Association and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Watch Out, Help Out Your Community: Neighborhood Watch Resources for Native American Communities, provides information on implementing Neighborhood Watches in tribal communities. This document includes a historical overview of Neighborhood Watch and includes examples of successful program implementation and crime prevention materials.
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The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators will hold its annual meeting in Quebec City, Canada, from June 20 through June 23, 2009. A full schedule of general sessions and workshops has been arranged, with topics ranging from crowd control to campus drinking to creating a campus climate of crime prevention and preparedness. Campus violence will also be examined. More than 100 exhibitors are expected.
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A new study, The Code of the Street and African-American Adolescent Violence, discusses developmental relationships between neighborhood and family characteristics, reported experiences with racial discrimination, expressed street code values, and self-reported violent behavior in young people. The researchers who produced the study explored the “code of the street” theory first advanced by Yale University Professor Elijah Anderson.
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Add your spring event to the calendar maintained and publicized by the Office for Victims of Crime. The National Calendar of Crime Victim Assistance-Related Events helps viewers locate, plan, and promote events nationwide, allowing them to connect with larger audiences and gain national exposure.
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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUS) has gone live with www.namus.gov, the nation’s first online database for records on missing persons. Both the public and law enforcement can enter information. Both NamUs databases—unidentified human remains and now, missing persons—are fully searchable.
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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has released its 2008 Annual Report. The report provides information on OJJDP’s activities in fiscal year 2008 to promote early intervention and delinquency prevention, support faith-based and community organizations, expand mentoring, improve the juvenile justice system, ensure public safety, curb child exploitation, combat youth gangs, and serve tribal youth. The report concludes with an overview of OJJDP’s information dissemination efforts.
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The February 2009 Community Policing Dispatch from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services includes articles about implementing foot patrols as part of an overall community policing strategy and a discussion about the parallels between community policing and community courts. The March issue of the Dispatch features an overview of the COPS Hiring Recovery Program, a discussion of a California police department’s approach to its community’s foreclosure crisis, and an article about the COPS Office Child Sexual Predator Program. Subscribe to the Dispatch at either of these links.
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The Sexual Assault Resource Service (SARS) Office, in conjunction with the Office for Victims of Crime, is sponsoring the Fifth National Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Training Conference in Seattle, WA, May 27-29, 2009. The focus of the 2009 SART Training Conference will be to promote health and healing of sexual assault victims, hold sex offenders accountable for their crimes, and realize the hope of preventing further sexual violence in their communities.
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The Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ) has issued its 2008 Annual Report to the President and Congress. Established under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act, the FACJJ is a consultative body that advises the president and lawmakers on matters related to juvenile justice and delinquency prevention, advises the administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and evaluates the progress and accomplishments of juvenile justice activities and projects. This report addresses significant issues facing the nation’s juvenile justice system. Primary among its concerns is reauthorization of the JJDP Act.
