NCJ Number
80262
Date Published
1972
Length
84 pages
Annotation
A conceptual framework providing minimum specifications for offender-based transactional statistical systems is presented, with the intention that it be used in the development of statistical systems in States.
Abstract
The offender-based transaction approach to criminal justice statistics accounts for and describes each encounter between offenders and criminal justice agencies. The individual is tracked as he/she is processed from entry into the system to the point of exit. By monitoring the various paths that defendants/offenders take, the functioning of the criminal justice system can be described by means of the aggregate experiences of those who have passed through it. This report is the first of two volumes which document the actual State-level implementation of an offender-based transaction statistics system in each of the five participating States (California, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, and New Jersey). The volume indicates the applications of an offender-based transaction data base to criminal justice management decisionmaking, presents a structure or model for the collection of such data, and documents the present status and historical development of statistics operations in the five participating States, so as to provide a basis for evaluating the implementation effort. Other States should benefit from the experiences documented. Issues in drafting State statistics statutes are considered. Footnotes accompany each chapter.