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Who's on First?
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Performance Measures for Prosecutors
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 Challenges Facing Prosecutors and Financial Institutions in Responding to Identity Theft -- To facilitate dialogue and cooperation between financial institutions and prosecutors, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice funded a project by the American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI) in partnership with First Data Corporation and the STAR®Network. The purpose of the project was to pinpoint common problems and obstacles facing financial institutions and prosecutors and share the recommended solutions that they can use to work together successfully. This report represents the culmination of those efforts by presenting recommended strategies for collaboration between prosecutors and financial institutions.
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Findings from the Application of Performance Measures in Two Prosecutors’ Offices
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Ensuring Public Safety
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Just Look What You’ve Done
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How Do Prosecutors Measure Up?
As part of a project funded by the National Institute of Justice, the American Prosecutors Research Institute’s Office of Research and Evaluation implemented and tested a performance measurement framework in two prosecutors’ offices. The purpose of the project was to identify which performance measures provided the most meaningful understanding of prosecutorial performance. One set of measures, related to ensuring safer communities, was tested using a public safety survey to measure community members’ opinions about crime, safety, and the performance of the prosecutor’s office. This monograph discusses the public safety survey, what prosecutors should be asking the public, the manner in which prosecutors can receive objective feedback from their constituents, and how to use the information to determine how well the office is meeting its goal of ensuring public safety.
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Determining the Effectiveness of Community Prosecution
This monograph is designed to help prosecutors understand how to look at the totality of their efforts by defining goals and objectives and how to use these goals and objectives to gauge the overall effectiveness of the offices’ community prosecution efforts. The experiences of a few jurisdictions that have strived to document their successes are also included.
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Do Lower Conviction Rates Mean Prosecutors’ Offices Are Performing Poorly?
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Rural Victim Assistance - A Victim/Witness Guide for Rural Prosecutors
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This publication is intended to help state and local prosecutors understand performance measurement. In particular, the publication is designed to help prosecutors establish performance measures using the American Prosecutors Research Institute’s performance measures framework; how to measure their offices’ performance; and how to use this information to support requests for funding, foster public support, and respond to criticisms by defining “success” in their own terms.
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The American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI), with funding from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, has explored the state of victim/witness assistance in rural prosecutors' offices, the challenges these offices face in trying to meet the needs of victims, and promising strategies for overcoming these challenges. This guide will provide prosecutors and prosecutor-based victim/witness advocates with practical and useful information to help them better serve rural crime victims.
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Local Prosecutors' Response to Terrorism
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Prosecution in the 21st Century
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The American Prosecutors Research Institute (APRI) conducted an exploratory study to examine how prosecutors can best respond to terrorism in a post-911 legislative environment. The study consisted of a statutory review of the new/amended state anti-terrorism legislation, a survey of the 112 largest jurisdictions in the country, and case studies of five local prosecutors’ offices. The goal of the study is to ensure that prosecutors have the most current information about the enforcement of anti-terrorism statutes in order to ensure that the local efforts complement and not conflict with federal efforts.
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Goals, Objectives and Performance Measures - This report offers an initial framework for measuring prosecutors’ progress toward achieving widely accepted goals and desired outcomes. It also provides a foundation upon which prosecutors and others can build to better understand the workings of the prosecution profession.
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The Changing Nature of Prosecution
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What Does it Mean to Practice Community Prosecution?
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Community Prosecution vs. Traditional Prosecution Approaches - APRI's Office of Research and Evaluation conducted a census of prosecutors to bring greater clarity to the issue of community prosecution and its impact on the nature of prosecution.
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Organizational, Functional, and Philosophical Changes - What are community prosecution's defining characteristics and what does it really mean to practice community prosecution?
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How Many Cases Should A Prosecutor Handle?
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A Local Prosecutor's Guide for Responding to Hate Crimes
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National Workload Assessment Monograph
 Cases filed, cases closed, crime rate and population are all used as indicators for predicting how many staff members a prosecutor’s office needs to handle its workload, but are these the right indicators? According to the national workload assessment study completed by APRI’s Office of Research & Evaluation, these indicators are not, in fact, the right ones.
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 Highlighting model protocols and procedures from offices around the nation, the resource guide helps prosecutors' offices develop policies and procedures on handling hate crime investigations and prosecutions. The guide is available at no cost to prosecutors.
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