SECTION I: CJSART BACKGROUND
CJSART began early in 2004 when experts from the Department of State,
Agency for International Development, Department of Justice, and the
Department of Homeland Security formed an inter-agency working group
and began to outline a systematic criminal justice assessment paradigm.
Although INL assumed a coordinating role in this interagency exercise,
the bulk of each sector’s indicators were developed by the relevant expert
agency. Approaching three years of