Organization | • | Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority | [X] |
| | 61: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This report has been prepared for Governor Ryan's Commission on Capital Punishment to provide additional information on homicide victim and survivor issues. It is hoped that this information is useful in the Commission's consideration of possible improvements in the way criminal justice agencies and allied entities in the victim service community carry out their responsibilities. The focus groups convened for this study were intended to give family members of homicide victims an opportunity to comment on what it feels like to go through the criminal or juvenile justice system process. | | | | Date Created: | 02 19 2002 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003728 Original UID: 3572 FIRST WORD: Victim | |
| 62: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This report summarizes the findings from an assessment of the implementation of three projects to create and enhance domestic violence probation programs in Lake, Winnebago, and Kankakee counties. The goal of this assessment was to provide a description of the approaches to domestic violence and how project funds affected the handling of domestic violence cases in each of these jurisdictions. | | | | Date Created: | 01 2002 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003729 Original UID: 3571 FIRST WORD: An | |
| 63: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Henry/Mercer Task Force covered Henry County and Mercer County in Illinois beginning from mid July 1991 and ending December 1996. The data presented in this report provide a general overview of drug crime in the two counties and the response and impact of the task force. | | | | Date Created: | 02 2002 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003730 Original UID: 3570 FIRST WORD: An | |
| 64: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Death Penalty Education Project and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at the Northwestern University School of Law sponsored the panel discussion. It was held on the campus of Northwestern Law School on March 13, 2002 and was open to the public. This report was prepared for Governor Ryans Commission on Capital Punishment to provide additional information on those who have been wrongfully convicted of murder and subsequently incarcerated. It is hoped that this information is useful in the Commissions consideration of possible improvements in the way criminal justice agencies and allied entitiesmeet the needs of those who have been wrongfully convicted. | | | | Date Created: | 03 152002 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003731 Original UID: 3569 FIRST WORD: The | |
| 65: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This research brief presents information about the health of male prisoners returning to Chicago, Illinois, after having been incarcerated in state prison. Prisoners nationwide are considered to be at higher risk for a range of chronic, infectious, and mental illnesses. This brief discusses the health status of soon-to-be released prisoners, the services they received in prison, and the health challenges they faced following release. Furthermore, this research examines the ways in which health may influence the reintegration process and offers recommendations for improved policy. | | | | Date Created: | 08 2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003732 Original UID: 3593 FIRST WORD: Returning | |
| 66: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This report uses the data collected from the Returning Home study of male prisoners returning to Chicago to examine the extent of and reasons for residential mobility among released prisoners and how mobility might affect reentry outcomes. Identifying the characteristics of more transient former prisoners may provide guidance on the special needs of this subpopulation. Moreover, identifying the precise locations of released prisoners can help inform postrelease supervision efforts as well as the spatial allocation of housing, treatment, and other social services. | | | | Date Created: | 08 2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003733 Original UID: 3592 FIRST WORD: Returning | |
| 67: | | 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 | |
| 68: | | 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 | |
| 69: | | 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 | |
| 70: | | 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 | |
| 71: | | 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 | |
| 72: | | 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 | |
| 73: | | 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 | |
| 74: | | 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 | |
| 75: | | 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 | |
| 76: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Data used in this article were gathered during the prerelease survey and the first postrelease survey of the Returning Home Illinois study. The primary research question for this analysis concerns treatment matching: Did those most in need of substance abuse treatment receive treatment? Secondarily, we are interested in examining the issue of continuity of treatment: Did those who received in-prison treatment receive postprison treatmentas well? | | | | Date Created: | 08 2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003743 Original UID: 3594 FIRST WORD: Returning | |
| 77: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Returning Home: Understanding the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry is a longitudinal study of prisoner reentry in Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas. The study explores prisoner reentry across five domains: (1) the individual experience, as documented through interviews with prisoners before and after release from prison; (2) the family experience, as documented through interviews with family members of returning prisoners; (3) the peer group experience, as documented through prisoner interviews both before and after their release; (4) the community experience, as documented through interviews with key community stakeholders and focus groups with residents; and (5) the broader policy environment at the state level. In Illinois, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Woods Fund of Chicago, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority supported Returning Home. The Metro Chicago Information Center (MCIC) conducted the original data collection under the expert direction of Dr. Alis Schoua-Glusberg. | | | | Date Created: | 08 30 2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003744 Original UID: 3595 FIRST WORD: Returning | |
| 78: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This brief brings together the perspectives of former prisoners, community residents, and reentry policymakers and practitioners to describe the communitys role in the reintegration process for released prisoners, as well as the impact of prisoner reentry on the community. | | | | Date Created: | 08 2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000003745 Original UID: 3596 FIRST WORD: Returning | |
| 79: | | 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 | |
| 80: | | 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 | |
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