NCJ Number
156036
Date Published
1995
Length
37 pages
Annotation
This report highlights the significant issues and initiatives addressed by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to improve the administration of justice in the State during 1994.
Abstract
The commission's activities focused on eight major program areas: intermediate sanctions, statistics and policy research, criminal justice and drug prevention-education training, civil and criminal training, juvenile justice, victim/witness services, community crime prevention, and drug control and system improvement. Major accomplishments were the analysis proposed criminal justice legislation and production of specific impact estimates for bills likely to affect the State's correctional system, participation in a multistate pilot study of convenience store robberies, and completion of its role in the federally funded study of sentencing policies and practices. Other accomplishments focused on improving criminal history records and developing standards for the electronic submission of county jail statistical information. Chart and list of grants awarded