APRI Major Program Areas

Child Abuse and Exploitation Neglect, physical and sexual abuse, fatalities, interviewing skills, computer-facilitated sexual exploitation, and prostitution and trafficking.

Community Prosecution Community-oriented prosecution addresses the needs of specific neighborhoods by developing proactive, innovative legal strategies and helping create partnerships that will provide long-term solutions to neighborhood livability issues.

DNA  Forensics Scientific, legal, and trial advocacy issues at both a basic and advanced level, including STRs, Mitochondrial DNA, Y-Chromosome Typing, CODIS, and non-human DNA.

Drug Prosecution and Prevention This program will support the national Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) activities designed to reduce gun violence and will also render technical assistance and training to prosecutors engaged in the prosecution and prevention of illegal drugs.

Gang Response Model The Gang Response Model provides prosecutors with the requisite skill set to effectively respond to emerging and on-going gang problems. Our objective is to educate prosecutors about a comprehensive response to gangs, to assist prosecutors in developing and implementing holistic responses to gang violence, and to encourage prosecutors to act as leaders in prevention, intervention, and suppression strategies.

Gun Violence Prosecution On May 14, 2001, President Bush announced Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a partnership between local prosecutors and their federal counterparts and attendant law enforcement agencies aimed at reducing gun violence. Gun Violence Prosecution was formed to specifically address the issues arising from this new initiative.

Homeland Security The Homeland Security Program is a joint project between the American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI) and the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA). This program proposes to implement the 9/11 Commission’s key recommendation for incorporating criminal investigations and supervision in the homeland security process on the state and local level. This collaboration will train community corrections officers and prosecutors across the country in techniques for identifying potential terrorist or terrorist-supporting activities. It will ensure that the vast amount of data collected by community corrections agencies and prosecutors’ offices will be reviewed for terrorist implications and shared with appropriate law enforcement agencies such as multi-jurisdictional antiterrorism task forces and regional intelligence fusion centers.

Juvenile Justice Training for newly assigned juvenile prosecutors and rural prosecutors, balanced and restorative justice, DMC, leadership summits, and serious and violent offenders.

Research Caseload/workload studies, performance measures, program evaluations, policy analyses, identification of promising practices in hate crimes, drug prevention/intervention, and victim/witness assistance.

Traffic Law Impaired driving issues such as HGN, DRE, toxicology, crash reconstruction, vehicular homicide, and breath testing instruments, and general consulting services.

Violence Against Women Domestic violence, including cultural and immigration issues and rural issues, rape and sexual assault, and stalking and cyberstalking.

White Collar Crime Telemarketing fraud, Internet fraud, identity theft, insurance fraud, and similar crimes.