national institute of justice

English Thesaurus

1. the law enforcement agency that is the research and development branch of the Department of Justice (noun.group)

hypernym	:	law enforcement agency,
definition	:	an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws (noun.group)

part meronym	:	department of justice, doj, justice, justice department,
definition	:	the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870 (noun.group)