Criminal Justice on the Web

ATF Responsibilities
* Investigation and prevention of federal offenses involving the unlawful use, manufacture, and possession of firearms and explosives;
* Acts of arson and bombings; and illegal trafficking of alcohol and tobacco products;
* Regulates via licensing the sale, possession, and transportation of firearms, ammunition, and explosives in interstate commerce.

Program Areas:
* Criminal Enforcement;
* International Programs;
* Merger Enforcement.

Civil Division litigation categories:
* Cases involving national policies;
* Cases that are so massive and span so many years that they would overwhelm the resources and infrastructure of any individual field office;
* Cases filed in national or foreign courts;
* Cases crossing multiple jurisdictions; and
* Cases to remove illegal aliens.

The Division Enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of:
* Race;
* Color;
* Sex;
* Disability;
* Religion;
* Familial status;
* National origin.

Processes:
* Rigorous evaluations and meta-analyses of programs/practices;
* Rating programs/practices on the site;
* Looking at evidence outcomes and the direction of the evidence;
* Evidence that results in rated programs and practices is considered to be the strongest evidence;
* Identifying which programs and practices may have some evidence but it is either emerging, inconclusive, or unclear.

Programs Administered
* Asset Forfeiture
* Aviation
* Cannabis Eradication
* Clandestine Drug Laboratory Cleanup
* Diversion Control/Prescription Drug Abuse
* Drug Prevention/Demand Reduction
* Foreign Cooperative Investigations
* Forensic Sciences
* High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas
* Money Laundering
* Office of the Administrative Law Judges
* Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force
* State & Local Task Forces
* Southwest Border Initiative
* Victim-Witness Assistance Program
* Asset Forfeiture
* Aviation
* Cannabis Eradication
* Clandestine Drug Laboratory Cleanup
* Diversion Control/Prescription Drug Abuse
* Drug Prevention/Demand Reduction
* Foreign Cooperative Investigations
* Forensic Sciences
* High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas
* Money Laundering
* Office of the Administrative Law Judges
* Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force
* State & Local Task Forces
* Southwest Border Initiative
* Victim-Witness Assistance Program
* Asset Forfeiture
* Aviation
* Cannabis Eradication
* Clandestine Drug Laboratory Cleanup
* Diversion Control/Prescription Drug Abuse
* Drug Prevention/Demand Reduction
* Foreign Cooperative Investigations
* Forensic Sciences
* High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas
* Money Laundering
* Office of the Administrative Law Judges
* Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force
* State & Local Task Forces
* Southwest Border Initiative
* Victim-Witness Assistance Program

Federal Civil And Criminal Statutes enforced:selected list
* Clean Air Act;
* Clean Water Act, CERCLA (Superfund);
* Safe Drinking Water Act;
* Endangered Species Act;
* Marine Mammal Protection Act;
* National Environmental Policy Act;
* Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act;
* Tucker Act.

Briefly, this Office oversees banks and bankruptcy.

The FBI Investigates
* Terrorism
* Counterintelligence
* Cyber Crime
* Public Corruption
* Civil Rights
* Organized Crime
* White-Collar Crime
* Violent Crime
* Weapons of Mass Destruction

Programs:
* Administers 4 "formula" grant programs
* Administers 21 discretionary grant programs

Note: OVW does not provide services directly to the public.