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{{Organization
|OrganizationName=Department of Justice
|OrganizationType=Executive agency
|ParentOrganization=Executive Office of the President
|CreationLegislation=Act to Establish the Department of Justice
|Employees=115000
|OrganizationExecutive=Attorney General
|Services=The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) provides a wide array of services aimed at upholding the law, ensuring public safety, and protecting civil rights. It enforces federal laws, investigates and prosecutes crimes at the national level, including terrorism, organized crime, and cybercrimes through agencies like the FBI and DEA. The DOJ also deals with civil rights enforcement, combating discrimination in various forms, and oversees the immigration court system via the Executive Office for Immigration Review. It represents the U.S. government in legal matters, defends federal legislation, and provides legal advice to the President and federal agencies. Additionally, the DOJ works to prevent and respond to violent crime, supports local law enforcement through grants and training, and manages the federal prison system. The department also engages in efforts to combat elder abuse, support victims of crime, and engage in international law enforcement cooperation.
|Regulations=The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) oversees a broad spectrum of federal regulations. This includes enforcing criminal laws through agencies like the FBI and DEA, protecting civil rights under acts like the Civil Rights Act and ADA, ensuring antitrust laws promote fair competition, managing immigration proceedings, regulating controlled substances, overseeing firearms and explosives via the ATF, managing federal prisons, administering bankruptcy laws, enforcing environmental regulations, providing legal counsel on constitutional matters, and facilitating public access to information through FOIA. The DOJ's role spans from direct enforcement to setting policy, ensuring compliance, and protecting the rights and safety of the American public.
|HeadquartersLocation=38.89321, -77.0256
|HeadquartersAddress=950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530
|Website=https://www.justice.gov
|Wikipedia=United States Department of Justice
}}
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| agency_name     = United States Department of Justice
| seal            = Seal of the United States Department of Justice.svg
| seal_width      = 150
| seal_caption    = Seal of the U.S. Department of Justice
| logo            = Flag of the United States Department of Justice.svg{{!}}border
| logo_caption    = Flag of the U.S. Department of Justice
| picture         = U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) (53840386529).jpg
| picture_caption = The [[Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building|Robert F. Kennedy Building]] is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice. (2024)
| formed          = {{start date and age|1870|7|1}}
| agency_type     = [[United States federal executive departments|Executive department]]
| jurisdiction    = [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. federal government]]
| headquarters    = [[Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building]]<br>950 [[Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.)|Pennsylvania Avenue]] [[Northwest, Washington, D.C.|NW]]<br>[[Washington, D.C.]], United States
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| motto           = "''Qui Pro Domina Justitia Sequitur''" ([[Latin]]: "Who prosecutes on behalf of justice (or the [[Lady Justice]])")<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/jmd/revision-original-letter-dated-14-february-1992 Revision of Original Letter Dated 14 February 1992] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919164756/http://www.justice.gov/jmd/revision-original-letter-dated-14-february-1992 |date=September 19, 2015 }}, United States Department of Justice.</ref><ref name=Madan08>{{cite journal|last1=Madan|first1=Rafael|title=The Sign and Seal of Justice|journal=Ave Maria Law Review|date=Fall 2008|volume=7|pages=123, 191–192|url=https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/legacy/2013/09/08/rmadan-signsealjustice.pdf|access-date=December 8, 2014|archive-date=March 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305151457/https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/legacy/2013/09/08/rmadan-signsealjustice.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
| employees       = 113,114 (2019)<ref name=DOJ>{{cite web |url=https://www.justice.gov/jmd/page/file/1142306/download |title=2020 Budget Summary |access-date=30 July 2019 |publisher=The United States Department of Justice |archive-date=April 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413202413/https://www.justice.gov/jmd/page/file/1142306/download |url-status=live }}</ref>
| budget          = $37.52 billion (FY 2024)
| chief1_name     = [[Merrick Garland]]
| chief1_position = [[Attorney General of the United States|Attorney General]]
| chief2_name     = [[Lisa Monaco]]
| chief2_position = [[Deputy Attorney General of the United States|Deputy Attorney General]]
| chief3_name     = [[Benjamin Mizer]]
| chief3_position = [[Associate Attorney General of the United States|Associate Attorney General]] (Acting)
| chief4_name     = [[Elizabeth Prelogar]]
| chief4_position = [[Solicitor General of the United States|Solicitor General]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-20|title=Meet the Acting Solicitor General|url=https://www.justice.gov/osg/staff-profile/meet-acting-solicitor-general-1|access-date=2021-01-21|publisher=justice.gov|language=en|archive-date=January 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121155306/https://www.justice.gov/osg/staff-profile/meet-acting-solicitor-general-1|url-status=live}}</ref>
| website         = {{url|https://www.justice.gov|justice.gov}}
}}

The '''[[Department of Justice]]''' ('''DOJ'''), also known as the '''Justice Department''', is a [[United States federal executive departments|federal executive department]] of the [[United States]] government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States. It is equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department is headed by the [[United States Attorney General|U.S. attorney general]], who reports directly to the [[president of the United States]] and is a member of the president's [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]]. 

The Justice Department contains most of the United States' [[Federal law enforcement in the United States|federal law enforcement agencies]], including the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]], the U.S. Marshals Service, the [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]], the [[Drug Enforcement Administration]], and the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]. The department also has eight divisions of lawyers who represent the U.S. federal government in litigation: the [[United States Department of Justice Criminal Division|Criminal]], [[United States Department of Justice Civil Division|Civil]], [[United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division|Antitrust]], [[United States Department of Justice Tax Division|Tax]], [[United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division|Civil Rights]], [[United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division|Environment and Natural Resources]], [[United States Department of Justice National Security Division|National Security]], and [[United States Department of Justice Justice Management Division|Justice Management Divisions]]. The department also includes the [[United States Attorney|U.S. Attorneys' Offices]] for each of the 94 U.S. federal judicial districts.

The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] created the Justice Department in 1870 during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. The Justice Department's functions originally date to 1789, when Congress created the office of the Attorney General.

==History==
The office of the [[United States Attorney General|attorney general]] was established by the [[Judiciary Act of 1789]] as a part-time job for one person, but grew with the [[bureaucracy]]. At one time, the attorney general gave legal advice to the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]], as well as the [[President of the United States|president]]; however, in 1819, the attorney general began advising Congress alone to ensure a manageable workload.<ref name="About USDOJ">{{cite web|title=United States Department of Justice: About DOJ|date=September 16, 2014|url=https://www.justice.gov/about/about.html|access-date=November 22, 2020|archive-date=July 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712154603/http://www.justice.gov/about/about.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Until 1853, the salary of the attorney general was set by statute at less than the amount paid to other Cabinet members. Early attorneys general supplemented their salaries by running private law practices, often arguing cases before the courts as attorneys for paying litigants.<ref name=Madan08/> The lightness of the office is exemplified by [[Edward Bates]] (1793–1869), Attorney General under Abraham Lincoln (1861 to 1864). Bates had only a small operation, with a staff of six. The main function was to generate legal opinions at the request of Lincoln and cabinet members, and handle occasional cases before the Supreme Court. Lincoln's cabinet was full of experienced lawyers who seldom felt the need to ask for his opinions. Bates had no authority over the US Attorneys around the country. The federal court system was handled by the Interior Department; the Treasury handled claims. Most of the opinions turned out by Bates's office were of minor importance. Lincoln gave him no special assignments and did not seek his advice on Supreme Court appointments. Bates did have an opportunity to comment on general policy as a cabinet member with a strong political base, but he seldom spoke up.<ref>John P. Frank, "Edward Bates, Lincoln's Attorney General",  ''American Journal of Legal History'' 10#1 (1966) pp 34-50.</ref>

Following unsuccessful efforts in 1830 and 1846 to make attorney general a full-time job,<ref name=Madan08/> in 1867, the [[U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary]], led by Congressman [[William Lawrence (Ohio)|William Lawrence]], conducted an inquiry into the creation of a "law department" headed by the attorney general and also composed of the various department solicitors and [[United States attorney]]s. On February 19, 1868, Lawrence introduced a bill in Congress to create the Department of Justice. President [[Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant|Ulysses S. Grant]] signed the bill into law on June 22, 1870.<ref>{{cite web|title=Public Acts of the Forty First Congress|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=016/llsl016.db&recNum=197|access-date=January 23, 2021|archive-date=December 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225160723/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=016%2Fllsl016.db&recNum=197|url-status=live}}</ref>

Grant appointed [[Amos T. Akerman]] as attorney general and [[Benjamin H. Bristow]] as America's first solicitor general the same week that Congress created the Department of Justice. The Department's immediate function was to preserve civil rights. It set about fighting against domestic terrorist groups who had been using both violence and litigation to oppose the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|13th]], [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|14th]], and [[Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|15th]] Amendments to the Constitution.<ref name="chernow-p700">{{cite book |title=Grant |author=Chernow, Ron |publisher=Penguin Press |year=2017 |page=700}}</ref>

Both Akerman and Bristow used the Department of Justice to vigorously prosecute [[Ku Klux Klan]] members in the early 1870s. In the first few years of Grant's first term in office, there were 1000 indictments against Klan members, with over 550 convictions from the Department of Justice. By 1871, there were 3000 indictments and 600 convictions, with most only serving brief sentences, while the ringleaders were imprisoned for up to five years in the federal penitentiary in [[Albany, New York]]. The result was a dramatic decrease in violence in the South. Akerman gave credit to Grant and told a friend that no one was "better" or "stronger" than Grant when it came to prosecuting terrorists.<ref>Smith 2001, pp. 542–547.</ref> [[George Henry Williams|George H. Williams]], who succeeded Akerman in December 1871, continued to prosecute the Klan throughout 1872 until the spring of 1873, during Grant's second term in office.<ref name="Willams_p123">Williams (1996), ''The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871–1872'', p. 123</ref> Williams then placed a [[Moratorium (law)|moratorium]] on Klan prosecutions partially because the Justice Department, inundated by cases involving the Klan, did not have the manpower to continue prosecutions.<ref name="Willams_p123" />

The "Act to Establish the Department of Justice" drastically increased the attorney general's responsibilities to include the supervision of all United States attorneys, formerly under the Department of the Interior, the prosecution of all federal crimes, and the representation of the United States in all court actions, barring the use of private attorneys by the federal government.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=016/llsl016.db&recNum=197 |title=Act to Establish the Department of Justice |publisher=Memory.loc.gov |access-date=January 27, 2012 |archive-date=December 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225160723/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=016%2Fllsl016.db&recNum=197 |url-status=live }}</ref> The law also created the office of [[United States Solicitor General|Solicitor General]] to supervise and conduct government litigation in the [[Supreme Court of the United States]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/about|title=About DOJ – DOJ – Department of Justice|date=September 16, 2014|access-date=November 22, 2020|archive-date=November 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122174045/https://www.justice.gov/about|url-status=live}}</ref>

With the passage of the [[Interstate Commerce Act]] in 1887, the [[Federal government of the United States|federal government]] took on some law enforcement responsibilities, and the Department of Justice was tasked with performing these.<ref name="langeluttig-p9">{{cite book |title=The Department of Justice of the United States |author=Langeluttig, Albert |publisher=Johns Hopkins Press |year=1927 |pages=9–14}}</ref>

In 1884, control of federal prisons was transferred to the new department, from the [[United States Department of Interior|Department of the Interior]]. New facilities were built, including the penitentiary at [[United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth|Leavenworth]] in 1895, and a facility for women located in [[West Virginia]], at [[Alderson Federal Prison Camp|Alderson]] was established in 1924.<ref name="langeluttig-p14">{{cite book |title=The Department of Justice of the United States |author=Langeluttig, Albert |publisher=Johns Hopkins Press |year=1927 |pages=14–15}}</ref>

In 1933, President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] issued an executive order which gave the Department of Justice responsibility for the "functions of prosecuting in the courts of the United States claims and demands by, and offsenses [''sic''] against, the Government of the United States, and of defending claims and demands against the Government, and of supervising the work of United States attorneys, marshals, and clerks in connection therewith, now exercised by any agency or officer..."<ref>Executive Order 6166, Sec. 5 (June 12, 1933), at [https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/06166.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018071028/https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/06166.html|date=October 18, 2020}}.</ref>

==Headquarters==
The U.S. Department of Justice building was completed in 1935 from a design by [[Milton Bennett Medary]]. Upon Medary's death in 1929, the other partners of his Philadelphia firm [[Zantzinger, Borie and Medary]] took over the project. On a lot bordered by Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues and Ninth and Tenth Streets, Northwest, it holds over {{convert|1000000|ft2}} of space.

Various efforts, none entirely successful, have been made to determine the original intended meaning of the [[Latin]] motto appearing on the Department of Justice seal, ''Qui Pro Domina Justitia Sequitur'' (literally "Who For Lady Justice Strives"). It is not even known exactly when the original version of the DOJ seal itself was adopted, or when the motto first appeared on the seal. The most authoritative opinion of the DOJ suggests that the motto refers to the Attorney General (and thus, by extension, to the Department of Justice) "who prosecutes on behalf of justice (or the Lady Justice)".<ref name=Madan08/>

The motto's conception of the prosecutor (or government attorney) as being the servant of justice itself finds concrete expression in a similarly-ordered English-language inscription ("THE UNITED STATES WINS ITS POINT WHENEVER JUSTICE IS DONE ITS CITIZENS IN THE COURTS") in the above-door paneling in the ceremonial rotunda anteroom just outside the Attorney General's office in the Department of Justice Main Building in Washington, D.C.<ref name=Madan08/> The building was renamed in honor of former Attorney General [[Robert F. Kennedy]] in 2001. It is sometimes referred to as "Main Justice".<ref>{{cite web|title=PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM DIRECTS DESIGNATION OF MAIN JUSTICE BUILDING AS THE "ROBERT F. KENNEDY JUSTICE BUILDING"|url=https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2001/November/01_ag_605.htm|publisher=U.S. Department of Justice|access-date=December 8, 2014|archive-date=July 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713095717/http://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2001/November/01_ag_605.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Organization==
[[File:Oc-doj.jpg|thumb|Organizational chart for the Department of Justice (click to enlarge)]]

===Leadership offices===
*Office of the [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]]
*Office of the [[United States Deputy Attorney General|Deputy Attorney General]]
*Office of the [[United States Associate Attorney General|Associate Attorney General]]
Office of the United States Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General
*Office of the [[Solicitor General of the United States]]

===Divisions===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Division
! Year established<br />(as formal division)
|-
| [[United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division|Antitrust Division]]
| 1919<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/atr/about/division-history.html History of the Antitrust Division] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150713095727/http://www.justice.gov/atr/about/division-history.html |date=July 13, 2015 }}, United States Department of Justice.</ref>
|-
| [[United States Department of Justice Civil Division|Civil Division]]{{efn|The Civil Division was originally called the Claims Division; it adopted its current name on February 13, 1953.<ref name="Sink">[[Gregory Sisk]] & Michael F. Noone, ''Litigation with the Federal Government'' (4th ed.) (American Law Institute, 2006), pp. 10–11.</ref><ref>[https://www.justice.gov/civil/former-assistant-attorneys-general Former Assistant Attorneys General: Civil Division] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131212909/https://www.justice.gov/civil/former-assistant-attorneys-general |date=January 31, 2020 }}, U.S. Department of Justice.</ref>}}
| 1933<ref name="Sink"/>
|-
| [[United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division|Civil Rights Division]]
| 1957<ref>Kevin Alonso & R. Bruce Anderson, "Civil Rights Legislation and Policy" in ''Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History'' (2006, ed. James Ciment), p. 233.</ref>
|-
| [[United States Department of Justice Criminal Division|Criminal Division]]
| 1919<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/jmd/organization-mission-and-functions-manual-criminal-division Organization, Mission and Functions Manual: Criminal Division] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203151304/https://www.justice.gov/jmd/organization-mission-and-functions-manual-criminal-division |date=December 3, 2020 }}, United States Department of Justice.</ref>
|-
| [[United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division|Environment and Natural Resources Division]] (ENRD){{efn|The ENRD was originally called the Land and Natural Resources Division; it adopted its current name in 1990.<ref name="Reitze">Arnold W. Reitze, ''Air Pollution Control Law: Compliance and Enforcement'' ([[Environmental Law Institute]], 2001), p. 571.</ref>}}
| 1909<ref name="Reitze"/>
|-
| [[United States Department of Justice Justice Management Division|Justice Management Division]] (JMD){{efn|The JMD was originally called the Administrative Division; it adopted its current name in 1985.<ref name="Clayton">Cornell W. Clayton, ''The Politics of Justice: The Attorney General and the Making of Legal Policy'' (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1992), p. 34.</ref>}}
| 1945<ref name="Clayton"/>
|-
| [[United States Department of Justice National Security Division|National Security Division]] (NSD)
| 2006<ref>''National Security Cultures: Patterns of Global Governance'' (Routledge, 2010; eds. Emil J. Kirchner & James Sperling), p. 195.</ref>
|-
| [[United States Department of Justice Tax Division|Tax Division]]
| 1933<ref>Nancy Staudt, The Judicial Power of the Purse: How Courts Fund National Defense in Times of Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2011), p. 34.</ref>
|}

The Justice Department also had a War Division during [[World War II]]. It was created in 1942 and disestablished in 1945.<ref>[https://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/finding-aid/civilian/rg-60.html Civilian Agency Records: Department of Justice Records] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023041411/https://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/finding-aid/civilian/rg-60.html |date=October 23, 2017 }}, National Archived and Records Administration.</ref>

=== Law enforcement agencies ===
Several [[Federal law enforcement in the United States|federal law enforcement agencies]] are administered by the Department of Justice:
*[[United States Marshals Service]] (USMS) – The office of U.S. Marshal was established by the [[Judiciary Act of 1789]]. The U.S. Marshals Service was established as an agency in 1969, and it was elevated to full bureau status under the Justice Department in 1974.<ref>Larry K. Gaines & Victor E. Kappeler, ''Policing in America'' (8th ed. 2015), pp. 38–39.</ref><ref>''United States Marshals Service Then ... and Now'' (Office of the Director, United States Marshals Service, U.S. Department of Justice, 1978).</ref>
*[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) – On July 26, 1908, a small investigative force was created within the Justice Department under Attorney General Charles Bonaparte. The following year, this force was officially named the Bureau of Investigation by Attorney General George W. Wickersham. In 1935, the bureau adopted its current name.<ref>''The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide'' (Oryz Press, 1999, ed. Athan G. Theoharis), p. 102.</ref>
*[[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] (BOP) – the Three Prisons Act of 1891 created the federal prison system. Congress created the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 1930 by Pub. L. No. 71–218, 46 Stat. 325, signed into law by President Hoover on May 14, 1930.<ref>Mitchel P. Roth, ''Prisons and Prison Systems: A Global Encyclopedia'' (Greenwood, 2006), pp. 278–79.</ref><ref>Dean J. Champion, ''Sentencing: A Reference Handbook'' (ABC-CLIO, Inc.: 2008), pp. 22–23.</ref><ref>James O. Windell, ''Looking Back in Crime: What Happened on This Date in Criminal Justice History?'' (CRC Press, 2015), p. 91.</ref>
*[[National Institute of Corrections]] (NIC) – Founded in 1974, the National Institute of Corrections is organized under the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] and has a legislatively mandated mission to assist state and local correctional institutions, and to manage the [[Incarceration in the United States|American Federal Prison System]] by keeping records of inmates.
*[[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives]] (ATF) – Except for a brief period during [[Prohibition era|Prohibition]], ATF's predecessor bureaus were part of the Department of the Treasury for more than two hundred years.<ref name="ATFTransfer">[https://www.atf.gov/content/transfer-atf-us-department-justice-5 Transfer of ATF to U.S. Department of Justice]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.</ref> ATF was first established by Department of Treasury Order No. 221, effective July 1, 1972; this order "transferred the functions, powers, and duties arising under laws relating to alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives from the Internal Revenue Service to ATF.<ref>[https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives-bureau Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407123239/https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives-bureau |date=April 7, 2015 }}, Federal Register.</ref> In 2003, under the terms of the [[Homeland Security Act]], ATF was split into two agencies – the new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was transferred to the Department of Justice, while the [[Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau]] (TTB) was retained by the Department of the Treasury.<ref name="ATFTransfer" />
*[[Drug Enforcement Administration]] (DEA) – Created in 1973 as part of the [[war on drugs]], the DEA was formed from various previously existing law enforcement agencies that were parts of either the Department of Justice, [[United States Department of the Treasury|Department of the Treasury]] or the [[Food and Drug Administration]]. The DEA enforces the [[Controlled Substances Act]] and also interdicts foreign drug trafficking.
*[[United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General|Office of the Inspector General]] (OIG) – The Office of Inspector General performs basic internal auditing functions, and has the power to make arrests and prosecute members of the Department of Justice who are found to be in violation of laws regulating conduct of government officials.

===Offices===
*[[Executive Office for Immigration Review]] (EOIR)
*[[Executive Office for United States Attorneys|Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys]] (EOUSA)
*[[Executive Office of the United States Trustee]] (EOUST)
*[[Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management]] (OARM)
*[[Office of the Chief Information Officer (Department of Justice)]]
*[[Office of Dispute Resolution (Department of Justice)]]
*[[Office of the Federal Detention Trustee]] (OFDT)
*[[Office of the Executive Secretariat (Department of Justice)]]
*[[Office of Immigration Litigation]]
*[[Office of Information Policy (Department of Justice)]]
*[[Office of Intelligence Policy and Review]] (OIPR)
*[[Office of Justice Programs]] (OJP)
*[[Bureau of Justice Assistance]] (BJA)
*[[Bureau of Justice Statistics]] (BJS)
*[[National Institute of Justice]] (NIJ)
*[[Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention]] (OJJDP)
*[[Office for Victims of Crime]] (OVC)
*[[Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking Office]] (SMART)
*[[Office of the Police Corps and Law Enforcement Education]]
*[[Office of Legal Counsel]] (OLC)
*[[Office of Legal Policy]] (OLP)
*[[U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legislative Affairs|Office of Legislative Affairs]]
*[[Office of the Pardon Attorney]]
* [[Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties]] (OPCL)
*[[Office of Professional Responsibility]] (OPR)
*[[Office of Public Affairs (Department of Justice)]]
*[[Office on Sexual Violence and Crimes against Children]]
*[[Office of Tribal Justice]]
*[[Office on Violence Against Women]] (OVW)
*[[Professional Responsibility Advisory Office]] (PRAO)
*[[United States Attorney]]s Offices
*[[United States Trustee]]s Offices
*[[Office of Community Oriented Policing Services]] (COPS)
*[[Community Relations Service]] (CRS)
===Other offices and programs===
*[[Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States]]
*[[INTERPOL]], U.S. National Central Bureau
*[[National Drug Intelligence Center]] 
*[[Obscenity Prosecution Task Force]]
*[[United States Parole Commission]]

In March 2003, the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service was abolished and its functions transferred to the [[United States Department of Homeland Security]]. The [[Executive Office for Immigration Review]] and the [[Board of Immigration Appeals]], which review decisions made by government officials under Immigration and Nationality law, remain under jurisdiction of the Department of Justice. Similarly the Office of Domestic Preparedness left the Justice Department for the Department of Homeland Security, but only for executive purposes. The Office of Domestic Preparedness is still centralized within the Department of Justice, since its personnel are still officially employed within the Department of Justice.

In 2003, the Department of Justice created LifeAndLiberty.gov, a website that supported the [[USA PATRIOT Act]]. It was criticized by government watchdog groups for its alleged violation of U.S. Code Title 18 Section 1913, which forbids money appropriated by Congress to be used to lobby in favor of any law, actual or proposed.<ref name="dotgovwatch">[http://www.dotgovwatch.com/?/archives/17-Department-of-Justice-Website-Illegally-Lobbies-Congress-LifeAndLiberty.gov.html Dotgovwatch.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109040318/http://www.dotgovwatch.com/?%2Farchives%2F17-Department-of-Justice-Website-Illegally-Lobbies-Congress-LifeAndLiberty.gov.html |date=November 9, 2020 }}, October 18, 2007</ref> The website has since been taken offline.

On October 5, 2021, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has announced the formation of a "Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team" during the Aspen Cyber Summit.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-10-06|title=DOJ Forms Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team - October 6, 2021|url=https://dailynewsbrief.com/2021/10/06/doj-forms-cryptocurrency-enforcement-team/|access-date=2021-10-06|website=Daily News Brief|language=en-US|archive-date=August 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809110307/https://dailynewsbrief.com/2021/10/06/doj-forms-cryptocurrency-enforcement-team/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Finances and budget==

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Budget Summary<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FY 2024 BUDGET SUMMARY |url=https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-03/2-_fy_24_budget_summary_-_03.9.23_1245pm.pdf |website=justice.gov}}</ref>
! Program!! FY 2022 (millions)!! FY 2023 (millions)!! FY 2024 proposed (millions)
|-
|Law Enforcement ||$19,286 ||$20,543 ||$21,292 
|-
|Litigation ||1,552 ||1,752 ||2,091 
|-
|Admin/Technology/Other ||880 ||652 ||2,009 
|-
|Prisons and Detention ||10,223 ||10,802 ||9,988 
|-
|State and Local Grants ||$3,630 ||$4,195 ||$4,912 
|-
|ATR and USTP Fees ||(551) ||(459) ||(556) 
|-
|Total, Discretionary BA with Fees ||$35,020 ||$37,485 ||$39,736 
|}
==See also==
* [[Capital punishment in the United States]]
* [[Incarceration in the United States]]
* [[Justice]]
* [[Litigation]]
* [[OneDOJ]]
* [[Punishment]]

==Footnotes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== Suborganizations==
{{Organization table|Where=Department of Justice}}

==External links==
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* [https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-justice Department of Justice] on [[Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006|USAspending.gov]]
* [https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/justice-department USDOJ] in the ''[[Federal Register]]''

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