Editing Office of Justice Programs (section)

{{Short description|The US federal government's main crime prevention research arm}}
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|agency_name     = Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
|type            = Department
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|seal_caption    = Seal of the United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs
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|formed          = {{Start date and age|1984}}
|jurisdiction    = [[Federal government of the United States]]
|headquarters    = <br />810 [[7th Street (Washington, D.C.)|7th Street]] [[Northwest, Washington, D.C.|NW]]<br />[[Washington, D.C.]], United States
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|chief1_name     = Brent Cohen, Acting Assistant Attorney General
|chief2_name     = Maureen Henneberg
|chief2_position = Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Operations and Management
| parent_department = [[United States Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]]
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The '''Office of Justice Programs''' ('''OJP''') is an agency of the [[United States Department of Justice]] that focuses on crime prevention through [[research and development]], assistance to state, local, and [[Native Americans in the United States|tribal]] [[criminal justice]] agencies, including [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]], [[corrections]], and [[Juvenile delinquency|juvenile justice]] through [[Federal grant|grants]] and assistance to crime victims.

The Office of Justice Programs is headed by an [[United States Assistant Attorney General|Assistant Attorney General]].<ref name= leadership>{{cite web |title= Leadership |work= Office of Justice Programs |publisher= United States Department of Justice |access-date= November 13, 2014 |url= http://ojp.gov/about/leadership.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170107032746/https://ojp.gov/about/leadership.htm |archive-date= January 7, 2017 |url-status= dead }}</ref> Brent Cohen is the Acting Assistant Attorney General.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ojp.gov/about/offices/oaag.htm|title=Office of Justice Programs - Office of Assistant Attorney General|date=January 30, 2017|website=ojp.gov|publisher=Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs|access-date=February 2, 2017}}</ref>  OJP's Assistant Attorney General is responsible for the overall management and oversight of the office.