| | 1: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 5 2006 3 October | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Stealing a person's identity is a relatively new type of crime, but one that is threatening to become epidemic as technology evolves and provides innovative techniques to capture victim information. This issue of Research Bulletin focuses on identity theft, giving statistics, methods, and tips on protecting oneself. | | | | Date Created: | 10 16 2006 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003721 Original UID: 3580 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 2: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 5 2006 4 November | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This issue focuses on an audit of the state's central criminal record repository to verify compliance with government funding and statutory standards. The 2006 CHRI Audit Report examined the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of electronic record transmissions to the Illinois State Police's (ISP) Computerized Criminal History (CCH) system between 1991 and 2001. A particular focus was placed on submissions from county sheriff's offices. | | | | Date Created: | 11 2006 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003722 Original UID: 3579 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 3: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 5 2007 6 January | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This issue of Research Bulletin focuses on trends and data on incarcerated youth in Illinois. | | | | Date Created: | 01 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003723 Original UID: 3578 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 4: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 5 2007 6 January | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin examines race of juveniles committed by the courts to Illinois youth centers. Although the data may not contribute to conclusions as to the causes of overrepresentation or underrepresentation of minorities and ethnic groups, they can aid in the development of appropriate responses to reduce disproportionate minority confinement. | | | | Date Created: | 01 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003724 Original UID: 3576 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 5: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 5 2007 7 April | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This issue of the Research Bulletin summarizes the findings of the first statewide survey of adult resident victims of crime, completed in 2005 by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. The survey results offer criminal justice practitioners an additional tool by which to measure the extent and nature of crime in Illinois. | | | | Date Created: | 04 2007 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003726 Original UID: 3574 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 6: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 4 2005 2 September | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin, with the headline "Decade of trends shows continual decrease in Illinois crime," focuses on statistics revealing a continuing downward trend in Illinois crime. Illinois highlights: 1995 to 2004 and a description of data used in this report also is provided. | | | | Date Created: | 09 08 2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003734 Original UID: 3591 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 7: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 4 2005 3 October | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin reviews The Impact of Methamphetamine on Illinois Communities: An Ethnography, conducted by Ralph Weisheit, who examined the impact of methamphetamine in Edgar and Clark counties. | | | | Date Created: | 10 2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003735 Original UID: 3590 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 8: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 4 2005 4 November | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin, with the headline Children's Risk of Homicide Victimization Rates for Chicago Children from Birth to Age 14, 1965 to 1995, examines the 1,124 homicides of children aged 14 and younger that occurred in Chicago from 1965 to 1995. Trends in population-based risk of homicide compare the risks for young children versus older teens and adults, boys versus girls, children of different racial/ethnic groups, and children in different developmental age groups. Patterns in these 31-year trends suggest practical implications for reducing homicide levels among young children. | | | | Date Created: | 11 2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003736 Original UID: 3589 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 9: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 4 2005 5 December | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This issue, with the headline "Screening for serious mental illness among offenders," reports the preliminary findings of an analysis of three studies that were conducted to specifically explore use of the K6 scale with criminal justice populations. The results support the use of the K6/K10 scales with criminal justice populations. | | | | Date Created: | 12 01 2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003737 Original UID: 3588 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 10: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 4 2005 6 December | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Findings in this Research Bulletin support the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission as it attempts to report to Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention the status of its disproportionate minority contact efforts by assessing racial disparity at the point of arrest and among commitments to IDOC for the entire state and for each of Illinois 102 counties. | | | | Date Created: | 12 2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003738 Original UID: 3587 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 11: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 4 2005 7 December | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin examines the criminal histories and incarceration trends of Class 4 felons. Illinois officials have grappled with increasing funding demands by the criminal justice system during a period of declining state fiscal resources. Results of this study may assist justice practitioners and policymakers as they determine whether incarceration is appropriate for this population of offenders. | | | | Date Created: | 12 2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003739 Original UID: 3586 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 12: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 4 2006 8 June | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In response to the growing methamphetamine problem in Illinois, and increased arrests of those involved with meth production, distribution, and possession, state and local criminal justice practitioners and policymakers have changed Illinois laws, increased resources to detect meth-related activities, and increased the capacity to treat meth abusers. This Research Bulletin examines the most current data available to gauge methamphetamine's emergence and migration in Illinois and how the drug has impacted justice and treatment systems across the state. | | | | Date Created: | 06 2006 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003740 Original UID: 3585 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 13: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 5 2006 1 August | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin highlights rural county crime trends and risk factors that differ from other counties across the state between 1993 and 2003. | | | | Date Created: | 08 2006 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003741 Original UID: 3584 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 14: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 5 2006 2 October | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin focuses on how DNA is being used and examines future trends in the criminal justice system as technology improves and individual DNA profiles are captured in the FBIs national database. | | | | Date Created: | 10 2006 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003742 Original UID: 3583 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 15: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 4 2005 1 August | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin is the first in a series of Authority publications on the elderly and the criminal justice system. It examines the local and national problem of elder abuse with data obtained from the Illinois Department on Aging, the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, and a study commissioned by the National Center on Elder Abuse. | | | | Date Created: | 08 2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003746 Original UID: 3597 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 16: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 3 2004 1 November | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin provides an overview of one element of detention reform supported by the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission (IJJC), the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts (AOIC), and the Illinois Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative: the use of scorable detention screening instruments. | | | | Date Created: | 11 2004 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003747 Original UID: 3598 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 17: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2 2004 12 May | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin provides detailed analyses of recidivism among adult gang members released from prison in Illinois. | | | | Date Created: | 05 2004 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003749 Original UID: 3600 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 18: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2 2004 11 April | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin focuses on drunk-driving statistics in the State of Illinois. | | | | Date Created: | 04 2004 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003750 Original UID: 3601 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 19: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2 2004 10 January | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This report, Disproportionate incarceration of African Americans for Drug offenses in the U.S., which is the first in a series, discusses national trends in arrests and incarcerations for drug offenses and describes the growth in the countrys prison population attributable mainly to increases in the number of persons sentenced to prison for drug offenses. It also demonstrates that African Americans are many more times likely than non-African Americans to be sentenced to prison for such crimes. Finally, the report discusses how racial disproportionality in drug law enforcement, prosecution, and sentencing practices has adversely affected the African American community. | | | | Date Created: | 01 2004 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003753 Original UID: 3604 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| 20: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 1 2003 2 January | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin, Methamphetamine in Illinois: An Examination of an Emerging Drug, was developed to demonstrate how key indicators can be used to measure, monitor, and evaluate the extent and nature of methamphetamine use and abuse in Illinois. Using aggregate data at the local and national level, the research sought to gauge the migratory characteristics of methamphetamine as an emerging drug by examining prevalence indicators, such as drug arrests, lab seizures, and quantity of drugs seized, relative to consequence indicators, such as admissions to treatment for methamphetamine abuse and other health data. | | | | Date Created: | 01 2003 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003762 Original UID: 3620 FIRST WORD: Research | |
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