NCJ Number
153745
Date Published
1994
Length
108 pages
Annotation
This report describes the nature and extent of drug law offenses and violent crime in Illinois and presents the State's proposed strategy for fiscal year 1995, involving the continuation of effective programs and focusing of limited new funds on programs to test ways to reduce violent crime.
Abstract
The report notes that criminal justice agencies are arresting, prosecuting, and convicting record numbers of offenders. In addition, individual agencies report improved conditions in their communities, and self-reported drug use among youths in grades 7-12 is lower than reported in a similar survey 4 years ago. However, violent crime has increased by 21 percent between 1988 and 1992, the supply and price of drugs has been unaffected, and heroin use is increasing. The State has developed more than 35 major programs to target every facet of the criminal justice spectrum, as well as drug treatment and education. For fiscal year 1995, the State proposes to continue effective programs, particularly those related to drug apprehension, prosecution, alternative sanctions, and treatment options for offenders, as well as to test programs to increase the arrest and prosecution of violent offenders and reduce their recidivism in counties or municipalities with high rates of violent crime. Figures, map, chart, and appended tables and related information