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Criminal histories

FY 2023 Criminal History Record Assessment and Research Program

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The CHRARP furthers BJS's mission to produce accurate and timely criminal history and recidivism statistics. BJS collects the national criminal history data to support the CHRARP from the FBI and state repositories. Through a competitive solicitation in 2019, NORC was selected as the data processing agent for the 2020 CHRARP. NORC has developed computer programs and crosswalk tables to efficiently convert the federal and state...

FY 2023 Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities 2024

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This collection is part of the larger BJS portfolio of establishment surveys that inform the nation on the characteristics of adult correctional facilities and persons sentenced to state, federal, and privately operated prisons. BJS's National Prisoner Statistics Program (NPS) collects aggregate counts of male and female custody and jurisdiction prison populations on December 31 each year. Through the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP), BJS collects...

FY 2023 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)

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This program aims to improve the nation's safety and security by enhancing the quality, completeness, and accessibility of criminal history record information; and by ensuring the nationwide implementation of criminal justice and non criminal justice background check systems.

FY 2023 National Criminal History Improvement Program Supplemental Funding

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This program furthers the DOJ's mission to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal history and related records in support of national record systems and their use for name and fingerprint based criminal history background checks. This program was developed to implement Title III, Division B (3) Appropriations outlined in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act...

FY 2023 National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Training and Technical Assistance Program

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This program will support activities under the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP), the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP), and portions of the recently enacted Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (Pub. L. 117 159) in fiscal year (FY) 2023. Direct technical assistance is provided to states, territories, and tribal jurisdictions to ensure that records systems are developed and managed...

FY 2022 Indiana NCHIP

15PBJS-22-GK-01047-NCHI
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2022
$692,208

FY 2022 Colorado NCHIP

15PBJS-22-GK-01030-NCHI
Past Project Period End Date
Funding First Awarded
2022
$431,016