Creating a New Criminal Justice System for the 21st Century: Findings and Results From State and Local Program Evaluations

• NCJ Number: 178936
• Author(s): Kate Ahern; Craig Cussimanio; Nancy Michel; Laura Parisi; Marylinda Stawasz; Kate Wagner
• Date Published: 2000
• Length: 107 pages
• Grant Number(s): 95-DD-BX-K011
• Sponsoring Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
• Corporate Author: Justice Research and Statistics Association
• Sale Source: NCJRS Photocopy Services; Bureau of Justice Assistance Clearinghouse
• Publication Series: BJA Monographs
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Program/Project Description
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Effective Programs Monograph No. 2

Annotation

This monograph describes and evaluates programs to improve criminal justice systems in Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Hampshire, Oregon, Illinois, Utah, and Oklahoma and provides summary evaluations of State and local multijurisdictional task forces funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

Abstract

Programs evaluated in the seven States include school-based probation in Pennsylvania, a detention center incarceration program in Virginia, an adult diversion program in New Hampshire, the Multnomah County drug diversion program in Oregon, a homicide and violent crime strike force in the Illinois counties of Madison and St. Clair, alternative incarceration in Utah in the form of a day reporting center, and a drug court program in Oklahoma. The brief summary evaluations of multijurisdictional task forces indicate they have been effective in reducing the availability and use of illegal drugs and in reducing violent crime levels. An appendix contains guidelines and criteria for the nomination of effective criminal justice programs. 50 references