Programs & Resources for Prosecutors

AI and Technology for Prosecutors

Guidance on how artificial intelligence and emerging technology are reshaping prosecution — from evidence and disclosure to office policy and ethical use.

Animal Abuse

APA treats animal cruelty and fighting both as precursor crimes to family and interpersonal violence and as violent crime that should be effectively prosecuted — supported by a statement of principles, a national technical assistance network, and an annual national animal cruelty prosecution conference.

Behavioral Health

Practical tools for addressing behavioral health challenges in the justice system. Through national trainings, webinars, and collaborative initiatives, APA delivers diversion toolkits, model protocols, and data-driven guidance.

Case Backlogs

A Stand Together Trust–funded effort that gave prosecutors insight into the state of case backlogs around the country while elevating model practices and protocols for addressing them, including specialized training and technical assistance for selected offices.

Child Abuse

A specialized training and technical assistance resource for child abuse prosecutors and their multidisciplinary teams — guidance on model practices, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and navigating complex cases with confidence and consistency.

Collateral Consequences

APA works to address unnecessary collateral consequences that have nothing to do with the underlying charge — particularly those affecting housing and employment, such as driver’s license suspensions, fines, and fees.

Conviction Integrity

Conviction Integrity and Review Units review and, where appropriate, seek to overturn convictions involving evidence of actual innocence, prosecutor or law enforcement misconduct, or other considerations that undermine the integrity of a conviction.

Data Dashboards

APA collaborates to provide prosecutors’ offices with platforms for collecting and publishing data — supporting transparency, community engagement, and safer communities.

Domestic Violence

Formed in 2017, APA’s Domestic Violence Prosecution Committee brings the nation’s leading working DV prosecutors and victim advocates together to advance the field and address the needs of DV prosecutors, managers, and victim advocates.

Gun Violence

The nation’s prosecutors hold a special role in doing everything within their constitutional authority to decrease gun-related crime. APA and its member prosecutors partner with justice partners and the public to curb gun violence and illegal gun-related crime.

Healthcare

APA’s healthcare portfolio equips prosecutors to respond to health-related issues in the justice system with practical, evidence-based guidance, developed with support from national philanthropic partners.

Homicide

Training, technical assistance, tools, and resources for state and local prosecutors and other criminal justice practitioners handling homicide and complex violent crime cases.

Human Trafficking

Training, expertise, and guidance that increase the organizational capacity of multidisciplinary task forces to identify victims, connect them to appropriate services, and successfully investigate and prosecute trafficking cases at the state, federal, and tribal levels.

Infectious Diseases

Guidance for prosecutors on the intersection of infectious disease, public health, and the criminal justice system.

Juvenile Justice

APA enhances juvenile programs through civic education, mentorship, and community service — encouraging referrals from prosecutors, police, probation, and the courts, and supporting research and evaluation across juvenile justice programs.

Political Violence

Resources and guidance for prosecutors responding to threats and violence directed at public officials, election workers, and civic institutions.

Procedural Justice

In partnership with Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory and LaGratta Consulting, APA assesses how city prosecutors interact with the surrounding community and implements evidence-based practices that increase public trust.

Prosecutor-Led Diversion

Developed with the Center for Court Innovation, NORC at the University of Chicago, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance to sustain and create pre-trial diversion programs with substance abuse, mental health, and human trafficking components.

Prosecutorial Wellness

The Prosecutorial Wellness Toolkit is designed to support the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of prosecutors navigating the demands of public service.

Prosecutors for Prosecutors

A humanitarian effort to evacuate and relocate U.S.- and allied-trained Afghan prosecutors and their families who remain in hiding after upholding the rule of law.

APA served as a strategic ally to the Safety + Justice Challenge, providing technical assistance and resources to nine core sites as they implemented and sustained evidence-based programs, hosting Leadership Institutes, and producing a white paper and newsletters on innovative diversion and alternative sentencing.

Victims’ Rights & Resources

One of the most important measures of a justice system is how it responds to its most vulnerable victims. APA points prosecutors and the public toward government and non-profit resources, including the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime.