| | | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 6, No. 1 September 2007 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin examines the responses received from eight different professional groups including police chiefs, court clerks, public defenders, states attorneys, judges, probation officers, juvenile detention center administrators, and victim service providers. | | | | Date Created: | 09-01-2007 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101503 Original UID: 207416 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 5, No. 7 April 2007 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Results of the first statewide survey of adult resident victims of crime, completed in 2005 by the Authority, offer criminal justice practitioners an additional tool by which to measure the extent and nature of crime in Illinois. | | | | Date Created: | 04-01-2007 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101506 Original UID: 207420 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 5, No. 5 January 2007 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The racial makeup of those who come in contact with the criminal justice system has long been of interest to researchers and policymakers. Overrepresentation of minorities, primarily African Americans, has become apparent in the nations prisons and received much attention. Disproportionate representation of minorities has also extended to the juvenile justice system and correctional facilities for youth. | | | | Date Created: | 01-01-2007 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101513 Original UID: 207431 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 5, No. 6 January 2007 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | I llinois began to experience a decline in commitments to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) Juvenile Division in the late 1990s. While this was a positive sign, there were other trends of concern. The number of female commitments to the IDOC Juvenile Division jumped 65 percent between state fiscal years 1994 and 2004. And black juveniles were committed at increasing rates, raising questions of disproportionate minority confinement. These trends and data may assist juvenile justice system policymakers and practitioners in developing more informed intervention policies and activities. | | | | Date Created: | 01-01-2007 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101514 Original UID: 207432 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 5, No. 4 November 2006 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Criminal history records must provide an accurate account of an individuals past encounters with the criminal justice system. Accurate, timely, and complete records help ensure officer safety, especially upon officer notification of previous weapon violations or violent crime convictions. Criminal history records also are used for background checks related to employment, adoption, citizenship, and firearm purchases. | | | | Date Created: | 11-01-2006 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101515 Original UID: 207433 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 5, No. 3 October 2006 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Stealing a persons 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. Unsuspecting millions of Americans already have been exposed to this crime. | | | | Date Created: | 10-01-2006 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101518 Original UID: 207436 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 5, No. 2 October 2006 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | One of the best crime-solving tools of the 21st century, DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, represents the intersection of science and criminal justice.1 Forensic DNA evidence has the ability to solve criminal cases--and even prevent future crime--but the use of DNA to identify and convict criminal offend but the use of DNA to identify and convict criminal offenders is relatively new. | | | | Date Created: | 10-01-2006 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101520 Original UID: 207438 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 5, No. 1 August 2006 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin highlights rural county crime trends and risk factors that differ from others recorded across the state between 1993 and 2003. | | | | Date Created: | 08-01-2006 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101522 Original UID: 207440 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 4, No. 8 June 2006 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin examines the most current data available to gauge meth's emergence and migration in Illinois and how the drug has impacted justice and treatment systems across the state. | | | | Date Created: | 06-01-2006 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101527 Original UID: 207446 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 4, No. 6 December 2005 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Findings of a study conducted by the Authority indicated that in many Illinois counties where there is a measurable percentage of minority youth, those youth are overrepresented in the juvenile justice system. The problem of minority over representation is especially acute for African American youth in Illinois. | | | | Date Created: | 12-01-2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101534 Original UID: 207458 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 4, No. 7 December 2005 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin examines the criminal histories and incarceration trends of Class 4 felons. | | | | Date Created: | 12-01-2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101535 Original UID: 207459 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 4, No. 5 December 2005 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Numerous epidemiological studies have documented that offenders at all levels of the criminal justice system have high rates of serious psychiatric disorders. More individuals with serious mental illness receive treatment in prisons and jails than in psychiatric hospitals. | | | | Date Created: | 12-01-2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101536 Original UID: 207460 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 4, No. 4 November 2005 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin examines the 1,124 homicides of children aged 14 and younger that occurred in Chicago from 1965 to 1995. | | | | Date Created: | 11-01-2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101537 Original UID: 207461 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 4, No. 2 September 2005 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin focuses on statistics revealing a continuing downward trend in Illinoiscrime. | | | | Date Created: | 09-01-2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101541 Original UID: 207467 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 4, No. 1 August 2005 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin is the first in a series of Authority publications on the elderly and the criminal justice system. | | | | Date Created: | 08-01-2005 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101544 Original UID: 207470 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 3, No. 1 November 2004 | | | | 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: | 11-01-2004 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101547 Original UID: 207482 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 2, No. 12 May 2004 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | This Research Bulletin provides detailed analyses of recidivism among adult gang members released from prison in Illinois. | | | | Date Created: | 06-01-2004 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101559 Original UID: 207505 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 2, No. 11 April 2004 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Since the early 1990s there has not been significant investigation of trends and issues related to offenses for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) in Illinois, although national attention to the issue is increasing again. | | | | Date Created: | 04-01-2004 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101560 Original UID: 207511 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 2, No. 10 January 2004 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The projects goal is to provide objective information about racial disproportionality in drug law enforcement in Illinois, elucidating the reasons for disparities and identifying meaningful solutions at various stages in the criminal justice process. | | | | Date Created: | 01-01-2004 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101585 Original UID: 207545 FIRST WORD: Research | |
| | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | Vol. 2, No. 8 November 2003 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | FBI officials have estimated that two-thirds of arrest subjects nationwide have prior criminal records, and further, that 25 to 30 percent of state and federal offenders are multi-state offenders, meaning they have both federal and state records or records in more than one state. | | | | Date Created: | 12-01-2003 | | | | Agency ID: | | | | | ISL ID: | 000000101586 Original UID: 207548 FIRST WORD: Research | |
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