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2. Office on Violence Against Women - Wikipedia

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   STOP grants (Services, Training, Officers, Prosecutors) were appropriated $175 million, and an additional $50 million went to Transitional Housing Assistance Grants. [35] A Criminal Justice Policy Review on this program and its effectiveness revealed that an increase of involvement of agencies with the community leads to a greater likelihood of ...

3. Arnold Ventures - Wikipedia

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   Arnold Ventures LLC (formerly known as the Laura and John Arnold Foundation) is a limited liability company focused on evidence-based philanthropy in a wide range of areas including criminal justice, education, health care, and public finance.

4. National Institute of Justice - Wikipedia

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   Areas of social science research include violence against women, corrections, and crime prevention, as well as program evaluation. [11] Grants for technology development help facilitate research and development of technology and tools for criminal justice application, which is a need that the private sector is otherwise reluctant to meet.

5. Violence Against Women Act - Wikipedia

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   The Violence Against Women Act was developed and passed as a result of extensive grassroots efforts in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Advocates for the battered women's movement included sexual assault advocates, individuals from victim services, law enforcement agencies, prosecutors' offices, the courts, and the private bar.

6. Meda Chesney-Lind - Wikipedia

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   Chesney-Lind works to find alternatives to women's incarceration and is an advocate for humanitarian solutions within the Hawaiian criminal justice system. She focuses on teaching courses on girls' delinquency and women's crime, issues of girls' programming and women's imprisonment, youth gangs, the sociology of gender, and the victimization of women and girls.

7. Office of Justice Programs - Wikipedia

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   The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that focuses on crime prevention through research and development, assistance to state, local, and tribal criminal justice agencies, including law enforcement, corrections, and juvenile justice through grants and assistance to crime victims.