---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10721"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10721"
heading: "Establishment of grant program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10721"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXXIX — Prevention, Investigation, and Prosecution of White Collar Crime"
---

# §10721. Establishment of grant program

- (a) **Authorization—** The Director of the [Bureau of Justice Assistance](/usc/34/11103.md?p=4-A) is authorized to enter into a cooperative agreement with or make a grant to an eligible entity for the purpose of improving the identification, investigation, and [prosecution](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-28) of white collar crime (including each category of such crimes set forth in paragraphs [(1)](#b-1) through [(3)](#b-3) of subsection (b)) by providing comprehensive, direct, and practical training and technical assistance to [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) officers, investigators, auditors and prosecutors in [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and units of local government.
- (b) **White collar crime defined—** For purposes of this subchapter, the term “white collar crime” includes—
  - (1) high-tech crime, including cyber and electronic crime and related threats;
  - (2) economic crime, including financial fraud and mortgage fraud; and
  - (3) Internet-based crime against children and child pornography.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 3031, as added Pub. L. 115–76, § 3(a), Nov. 2, 2017, 131 Stat. 1247.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

For short title of part MM of title I of Pub. L. 90–351, which is classified to this subchapter, as the “National White Collar Crime Control Act of 2017”, see section 3030 of Pub. L. 90–351, set out as a Short Title of 1968 Act note under section 10101 of this title.