NCJ Number
247376
Date Published
2012
Length
38 pages
Annotation
This is the Fiscal Year 2012 Annual Report of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA), which is responsible for the State's criminal justice policy and planning, grants administration, research, and the development of information systems.
Abstract
In FY 2012, ICJIA administered 1 State and 12 Federal grant programs. Staff administered 296 individual grants, with nearly $55 million in designations for the fiscal year. Research staff completed profiles of all 19 Justice Assistance Grant-funded metropolitan enforcement groups and drug task forces in the State. Each profile provides a general overview of the drug and violent crime problems under the task force's jurisdiction, as well as the strategies they use to address these issues. Researchers also continued to develop online data interpretation tools, updated maps and charts, and other data applications that improve Web access and the online presentation formats of the agency's holding of criminal justice and social risk-factor data. Topic areas for these tools include crime trends for violent and property offenses; drug seizures; drugs submitted for testing at Illinois State Police labs; drug treatment admissions; arrest trends for violent, property, and drug offenses; probation sentence statistics; and juvenile data. Also included are data on special topics, such as domestic violence and elder abuse. In addition, staff completed an in-depth examination of recidivism among approximately 4,200 youth exiting Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice correctional facilities between FY2005 and FY2007. The ICJIA Web site continued to provide easy access to the latest criminal justice information. Downloaded publications for the year totaled 1,104,493. A listing of ICJIA publications is provided.