Department of Finance & Administration
Mark Emkes, Commissioner
Office of Criminal Justice Programs
Bill Scollon, Director
Headlines
OCJP Releases State Fiscal Year 2014 Strategic Plans:
The Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice Programs (OCJP) manages a systematic, year-round cycle for determining the communities’ needs, identifying the justice system’s problems, setting program priorities, making grant allocation decisions, managing those funded projects, and evaluating the results of those decisions. Strategic program management is a structured process that looks three to five years ahead of daily grants management activities at the changing needs of Tennessee’s justice system. OCJP tracks problems surfacing in the criminal justice system, monitors trends in Tennessee’s communities, assesses the condition of the state’s resources, and measures the recent performance of OCJP-funded programs. All this information helps OCJP focus its future program descriptions, set its funding priorities, prepare its budget requests, and direct its limited resources into areas that promise the best return for the public’s investment.
State Fiscal Year 2014 Victim Services Strategic Plan
The Office of Criminal Justice Programs FY 2012 Annual Report
The Office of Criminal Justice Programs (OCJP) under the State Department of Finance and Administration functions as a strategic planning agency that secures, distributes, and manages federal and state funds for Tennessee. OCJP utilizes strategic program management, a structured process that looks three to five years ahead of daily grants management activities at the changing needs of Tennessee’s justice system and the needs of its victims of violent crime. OCJP tracks problems surfacing in the criminal justice system, monitors trends in Tennessee’s communities, assesses the condition of the state’s resources, and measures the recent performance of OCJP-funded programs. To address crime and victimization in Tennessee, OCJP manages a systematic, year-round cycle for determining the communities’ needs, identifying the justice system’s problems, setting program priorities, making grant allocation decisions, managing those funded projects, and evaluating the results of those decisions. In fiscal year 2012, OCJP was responsible for 25 different state and federal fund sources; approximately 350 grants of more than $30,000,000.00 in total funding to various State Departments, local governments and non-profit agencies for criminal justice and victim service grants. For more information, click on the link to the full report above.
Tennessee’s Targeted Community Crime Reduction Project (TCCRP)
The Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice Programs has partnered with six cities in Tennessee to implement the innovative Targeted Community Crime Reduction Project (TCCRP). Each of the cities undertook an extensive data-driven planning process prior to receiving funding for the project. Partnerships were developed with other community and governmental agencies to identify the systemic problems located in high crime areas, to identify the needs and available resources in those areas, to identify possible solutions and to implement those strategies. The strategies selected were required to be evidence-based or evidence informed. A three pronged approach was undertaken to employ strategies of prevention, enforcement and offender intervention to reduce crime in these specific targeted hot spots. Use of crime analysis to determine the highest crime areas was utilized to targeted the interventions where needed. For descriptions of each of these innovative projects click here
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National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) Justice Bulletin
Promising Practices
Directing Innovation: Tennessee’s Targeted Community Crime Reduction Project
The state of Tennessee has struggled in recent years to bring down violent crime rates that despite nationwide decreases have remained well above the national average. As part of an effort to combat this Tennessee’s Office of Criminal Justice Programs (OCJP) began……………………….
