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Title 34, NavyRelease 119-110

§12141 Grant Authorization

Title 34 › Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts › CHAPTER 121 — VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › SUBCHAPTER II — CRIME PREVENTION › Part B — Model Intensive Grant Programs › § 12141

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General can give grants to up to 15 areas with long-term, high crime to create model programs that prevent crime. The programs must use lots of community resources (for example, nonprofits, police, and state and federal agencies including education), try to fix the causes of crime, and offer real, lasting alternatives to crime. The Attorney General may consult the Ounce of Prevention Council and must favor projects that are new or creative, try different approaches so they can be compared, and work with other federal programs to meet community needs.

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Title 34, §12141

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(a)Establishment
(1)In general
The Attorney General may award grants to not more than 15 chronic high intensive crime areas to develop comprehensive model crime prevention programs that—
(A)involve and utilize a broad spectrum of community resources, including nonprofit community organizations, law enforcement organizations, and appropriate State and Federal agencies, including the State educational agencies;
(B)attempt to relieve conditions that encourage crime; and
(C)provide meaningful and lasting alternatives to involvement in crime.
(2)Consultation with the Ounce of Prevention Council
The Attorney General may consult with the Ounce of Prevention Council in awarding grants under paragraph (1).
(b)Priority
In awarding grants under subsection (a), the Attorney General shall give priority to proposals that—
(1)are innovative in approach to the prevention of crime in a specific area;
(2)vary in approach to ensure that comparisons of different models may be made; and
(3)coordinate crime prevention programs funded under this program with other existing Federal programs to address the overall needs of communities that benefit from grants received under this subchapter.

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This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (b)(3), was in the original “this title”, meaning title III of Pub. L. 103–322, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1836. For complete classification of title III to the Code, see Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 13771 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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34 U.S.C. § 12141

Title 34, Navy

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110