NCJA Data Center
​Who We Are
The NCJA Data Center supports State Administering Agencies (SAAs) to facilitate access to, gain a deeper understanding of, and support a more robust utilization of data. Working in collaboration with NCJA’s Training and Technical Assistance Centers, staff work to promote data transparency, responsible data use and data-driven decision making.
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The NCJA Data Center also serves as the in-house evaluators providing analysis for NCJA’s training and technical assistance efforts.
What We Do
Dashboard Development
To support data-informed strategic planning efforts and overall data-driven decision making, the NCJA Data Center offers data dashboards creation for SAAs.
Currently, the Data Center hosts NIBRS and Performance Measurement Tool (PMT) data dashboards for SAAs, upon request. These dashboards assist states in quickly and easily unpacking Byrne JAG funding allocations or other state data. If you’re interested in creating a data dashboard for your state (PMT, NIBRS or other), please reach out to us to see how we can help.
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States that already have dashboards can access them here.
Strategic Planning Support
The Data Center works alongside the NCJA Center for Justice Planning to offer ad-hoc, flexible support to SAAs to identify strategic planning funding priorities.
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We can identify data sources and/or analyze data on specific topics or areas of interest to SAAs
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We can facilitate stakeholder focus groups
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We can develop, administer, and analyze stakeholder surveys
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We can conduct literature reviews, share best practices, and offer answers to data and/or research related questions that SAAs may have
General Data Support for State Administering Agencies
The NCJA Data Center partners with SEARCH to enhance in-house expertise on data-related needs and concerns that may affect SAAs. Through this work we can provide guidance to SAAs around understanding baseline datasets, performance measures, intermediate outcomes, and how these are connected to strategic plan objectives.
Data Office Hours
NCJA’s Data Office Hours, offered in collaboration with the NCJA Center for Justice Planning, allow SAAs to address individualized needs and challenges surrounding data. Whether you are just beginning to explore potential datasets or are seeking an evaluation of the viability of the data previously included in your strategic plan, the team will work closely with your staff to review current data usage, identify potential areas of improvement and determine options for focused technical assistance. Interested? Send us an email at datacenter@ncja.org.
Justice Counts
NCJA is a partner to Justice Counts, a national initiative to improve the accessibility and usability of criminal justice data, founded on the belief that sharing criminal justice data should be easy. Justice Counts provides tools, resources, and support at no cost to help agencies achieve this vision and to help decision-makers most effectively use criminal justice data. The NCJA Data Center works to encourage SAA involvement in the initiative as an opportunity to better understand SAA data needs.
Improving the Quality of Prosecution Data
SAAs that fund prosecution programming with Byrne JAG or other funding are eligible to participate in a new pilot program focused on improving the quality of prosecutorial data. The NCJA Data Center and Measures for Justice (MFJ) work with selected prosecutorial offices to offer services to assess and improve the quality of their data, and ultimately move towards a path of reliable, accessible, transparent and actionable data.
Enhancing Evaluation Capacity
The Data Center partners with the Center for Justice Innovation (CJI), on a pilot project focused on helping a small grouping of sites with research and evaluation support, with the main goal of helping SAAs develop subawardees’ capacity to evaluate their own programs. Pilots are underway in Arizona and Nebraska. 
Our Partners
The NCJA Data Center is proud to partner with other like-minded organizations to support the data needs of state agencies.​​
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Center for Justice Innovation (CJI)
The content on this webpage was created with the support of Grant Nos. 2019-YA-BX-K002, 15PBJA-22-GK-04999-BSCI, and 15PBJA-22-GK-01566-JAGJ awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a program office within the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking, and the Office for Victims of Crime. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.