FORMULA GRANTS
Preventing Violence Against Women
- The S.T.O.P. Violence Against Women Formula Grants program supports improvements in law enforcement response to violence against women, development of more effective strategies and programs to prevent violent crimes against women, and improvements in data collection and tracking systems. By law, at least a quarter of STOP funds must be dedicated to enhancing direct services to crime victims.
Assisting Crime Victims
- The Victim Assistance and Victim Compensation grant programs are funded through the Crime Victims Fund, which is derived from fines, penalty assessments, and bail forfeitures collected from federal criminal offenders (not from taxpayers). Victim Assistance subgrants provide funding for approximately 3,300 victim assistance programs, including rape crisis centers, battered women's shelters, children's advocacy centers, and victim service units within law enforcement agencies. Together, these organizations serve more than 2 million crime victims each year. State victim compensation programs serve an additional 200,000 victims annually by providing financial assistance to victims to help defray some of the economic costs of crime.
DISCRETIONARY GRANTS
- Preventing Violence Against Native Women is designed to assist Indian tribes in their efforts to combat violence against native women.
- The Tribal Victim Assistance Discretionary Grant Program is designed to create accessible and responsive victim assistance services on tribal lands and Indian reservations where Federal prosecution of major crimes occurs.
- The Children' s Justice Act Partnerships for Indian Communities program is designed to help tribal justice systems address serious child abuse cases by developing specialized services and procedures to address the needs of native child victims and strategies to handle cases of child sexual abuse.
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