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Community Prosecution and Violent Crime
Community Prosecution and Violent CrimeSince comprehensive, community-based data driven approaches are required to prevent and reduce violent crime, APA provides prosecutors with the necessary support and training to enhance their ability to implement the key principles of community prosecution.
 Association of Prosecuting Attorneys Publications
A Framework for High Performance Prosecutorial Services  APA in partnership with U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has published A Framework for High Performance Prosecutorial Services. This monograph is aimed at uncovering the current state of prosecutorial roles and needs and the strategies that prosecutors are employing to meet the growing expectations of their communities. This document also identifies four additional components in which prosecutors should examine beyond trial advocacy to ensure their offices are delivering high performing prosecutorial services.
Community Prosecution: A Decade into the 21st Century This document is the inaugural publication of the Prosecutor's Report produced by the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). This Report, Community Prosecution: A Decade into the 21st Century, is the product of APA's Community Prosecution Advisory Council and examines the evolution of Community Prosecution from its origins to the present while providing some direction for the future.
Choosing Performance Indicators for Your Community Prosecution Initiative Choosing Performance Indicators for Your Community Prosecution Initiative is the second publication in the Prosecutor's Report series. This report attempts to synthesize the various goals that community prosecution initiatives have adopted, identifies the objectives associated with these goals, and develops performance measures that can be used to evaluate whether those goals and objectives are met.
Community Prosecution Manuals
Community Prosecution and Serious Crime How can community prosecution improve responses to serious and violent crime? This report answers that question by looking at the experience of several jurisdicitons.
Lex Quod Ordo Newsletters
Volume 1, Issue 1 This edition covers Rockland County's D.A. Thomas P. Zugibe's model program for maximizing graduation rates of at risk students, and a snapshot of the King's County District Attorney's Office sponsored little league baseball team.
Volume 1, Issue 2 This edition explores the Marion County (Indianapolis) spike in burglaries and how they addressed the issue through community prosecution, the Denver District Attorney's Office consolidation of various programs into their Special Programs Unit, and a look at the U.S. Attorney's Office sponsored step team as an example of excellent community outreach.
Volume 1, Issue 3 This edition discusses the 6th National Community Prosecution Conference, the DC Pretrial Services use of community prosecution to determine which individuals that were appropriate for release, and gives a quick look at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office's new community action centers.
Volume 1, Issue 4 This edition introduces the APA's new Community Prosecution Director Robert Hood, reveals the APA's planned map of community prosecution offices, and celebrates the birthdays of two large community courts.
Volume 2, Issue 1 This edition highlights innovative CP programs taking place in Denver, Indianapolis and Chicago, among others. We would like to thank and recognize the prosecutors who contributed to this newsletter.
Volume 2, Issue 2 This issue includes articles regarding mental health courts and prisoner residential reentry centers.
Volume 2, Issue 3 This issue reflects upon some of APA and our partners’ accomplishments that have taken place this year in the field of community prosecution and highlights three innovative programs.
Volume 2, Issue 4 In this edition of APA's Community Prosecution newsletter, please find an article on one of the Kings County (Brooklyn, NY) District Attorney's Office's reentry programs, a review of APA's recent Flash Mobs webinar training, a highlight of the Marion County Prosecutor's Office's Cybersafe program and announcements for upcoming trainings in 2012.
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