OptOutPrescreen.com
The official website of the consumer credit reporting industry, this website allows consumers to opt-in or opt-out of unsolicited credit or insurance offers. You may also call 888-567-8688.
Crime prevention
National Do Not Call Registry
The National Do Not Call Registry allows you to prevent telemarketers from calling your home or mobile phone with unsolicited offers.
Internal Revenue Service: Identity Theft Central
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provides this identity theft resource to help individuals, businesses, and tax professionals when personal information is stolen in order to commit tax fraud. The IRS also provides information on how to prevent and report tax-related identity theft.
Federal Trade Commission: Protecting Personal Information: A Guide for Business
The loss of sensitive customer information can harm businesses by impacting customer trust or even opening your business up to lawsuits. This resource provides the steps businesses can take to avoid security breaches in order to protect sensitive customer data.
Federal Trade Commission: Credit Freeze or Fraud Alert: What's Right for Your Credit Report?
Victims of identity theft may want to place an extended fraud alert or a free credit freeze on their credit file. This article provides information on both extended fraud alerts and credit freezes, along with the steps victims can take to implement them.
Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States
Date Published
January 2013
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention
The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention fosters hospital and community collaborations to advance equitable, trauma-informed care, and violence intervention and prevention in hospital-based violence intervention programs.
National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction: A Report to Congress
Date Published
August 2010
Agencies
DOJ
National Children's Advocacy Center
The Center models, promotes, and delivers excellence in child abuse response and prevention through service, education, and leadership.
Violence is Preventable: A Best Practices Guide for Launching & Sustaining a Hospital-based Program to Break the Cycle of Violence
Date Published
2011
Agencies
OVC-Sponsored
Publication Type
Instructional Material
El Delito del Secuestro Familiar: La perspectiva de hijos y padres
Date Published
May 2011
Agencies
OJJDP
Using Geographic Information Systems To Map Crime Victim Services: A Guide for State Victims of Crime Act Administrators and Victim Service Providers
Date Published
February 2003
Agencies
NIJ,
OVC
Publication Type
Instructional Material
CrimeSolutions
CrimeSolutions is a searchable online database of evidence-based programs that helps practitioners and policymakers understand what programs and practices work in criminal and juvenile justice, victim assistance, school safety, and youth mentoring.
Detecting, Addressing and Preventing Elder Abuse In Residential Care Facilities
Date Published
November 2009
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Internet Crimes Against Children: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Studies
Date Published
October 2009
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Promising Practices Against Hate Crimes: Five State and Local Demonstration Projects
Date Published
May 2000
Agencies
BJA
Our Aging Population: Promoting Empowerment, Preventing Victimization, and Implementing Coordinated Interventions: A Report of Proceedings
Date Published
January 2000
Agencies
OJP
Hate Crimes on Campus: The Problem and Efforts To Confront It
Date Published
October 2001
Agencies
BJA
U.S. Postal Inspection Service: Identity Theft
This site provides consumer tips, instructions on how to get off mailing lists and report unsolicited email, and links to information about identity theft and fraud.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime provides resources on crime prevention, criminal justice, and law reform. It also focuses attention on combating transnational organized crime and human trafficking.
Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website
This initiative is an unprecedented public safety resource that provides the public with access to sex offender data nationwide. The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website is a partnership between the U.S. Department of Justice and state, territorial, and Tribal governments, working together for the safety of adults and children.
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is the federal agency for national service and volunteerism. AmeriCorps provides opportunities for Americans to serve their country, address the Nation’s most pressing challenges, and improve lives and communities.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration: Workplace Violence
This website provides information on violence in the workplace, assessing the hazards in different settings and developing workplace violence prevention plans for individual worksites.