This On Good Authority is the third in a series of four summaries highlighting the most recent program evaluation of the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy.The Chicago Community Policing Evaluation Consortium continued an evaluation of the CAPS program last year and published its latest report - Community Policing in Chicago, Years Five and Six: An Interim Report - in May 1999. The evaluation was funded by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority using federal Anti-Drug Abuse Act funds. The National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation provided additional funding.
The purpose of this 20 page bookletis to outline the full range of records management assistance available from the Records Management Section-State Records Unit, and the steps necessary for agencies to follow in setting up a Records Management Program for their own organization, in compliance with the State Records Act and the Regulations of the State Records Commission.
To help a broad array of practitioners identify women at greatest risk, the Chicago Womens Health Risk Study explored factors indicating significant danger of death or life-threatening injury in intimate violence situations. A collaboration of Chicago medical, public health and criminal justice agencies, and domestic violence advocates, the CWHRS compared longitudinal interviews with physically abused women sampled at hospital and health centers with similar interviews of people who knew intimate partner homicide victims.
A random sample of 2,000 nonresident hunters was selected for a mail survey conducted during late winter 2000. A total of 1,358 (75%) completed questionnaires were received. States of residence for the hunters in the random sample indicated that the majority (49%) of nonresident hunters in Illinois came from the surrounding states of Missouri (25%), Indiana (12%), and Iowa (12%). The results of these surveys are the basis of this report.
This is the final report on the evaluation of the Cook County adult Probation Department's Sex Offender Program (ASOP). ASOP is an intensive supervision specialized probation program for felony sex offenders in Cook County. The program is based on the containment approach and has three major components: (a) intensive supervision of offenders which includes frequent field searches of offenders' homes and the verification of information obtained verbally from offenders; (b) treatment that centers around a cognitive behavior group therapy approach and is supplemental with cognitive-behavior individual treatment and other treatment tailored to an offender's needs; and (c) partnerships among probation officers and treatment providers that includes frequent communication and the sharing of relevant information about specific offenders. This final summary describes the programs setting, administration, advisory committee, staffing, target population, case referral procedure, and policies on supervision and surveillance.
This document is a summary of findings from an evaluation of sex offender probation programs in DuPage, Lake and Winnebago Counties conducted from June 1998 through June 1999 by Loyola University Chicago. The evaluation had two basic elements: The first was a process evaluation of each program, and the second was a short term impact evaluation of each program. The evaluation design and method adopted for each element is described and recommendations are given for each program as well as overall conclusions and recommendations.
The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authoritys Research and Analysis Unit developed this report for the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission. It is a companion publication to a report with the same title that was produced by the Authority in May 1997. Most of the analyses in that earlier report have been updated, and additional analyses have been added as well. It provides a general overview of trends in various juvenile justice indices, and focuses on particular regions of Illinois that are experiencing increases in juvenile crime or that have high rates of juvenile justice system activities.