The State of Illinois Capital Development Board Bid Information Newsletter contains: CDB News and Information, Training Opportunity Information, Participating Plan Rooms, Bid Openings, Future Projects, Project Awards, Architect/Engineer Selections, Contract Change Report, Prevailing Wage Rates and Directions to Bid Openings.
Crime mapping utilized in conjunction with crime analysis has become a key step in the sequence of activities aimed at conceiving, implementing, and evaluating measures to prevent crime. The manual is primarily intended for the beginning analyst working at small- and medium-sized police departments, although experienced crime mappers may learn from later chapters. This manual is not intended as a guide to any particular software, but as a guide for understanding general mapping, GIS, and spatial analysis concepts. Readers will also get a flavor for how mapping can be used to assist police department personnel, from the chief, to investigators, to patrol officers.
The Calumet Eco-Industrial Network Survey Project was conducted to collect baseline information for the purpose of developing an Eco-Industrial Network in the Calumet region of Chicago. Southeast Chicago Development Commission (SCDCom) believes that local companies can utilize the basic principles of material re-use, waste reduction, and energy efficiency within networks of companies. Information gathered from this survey project could be a first step in creating an Eco-Industrial Network (EIN) between local companies in the Calumet region.
This Program Evaluation Summary is based on an evaluation of the long-term impact of specialized sex offender probation programs in DuPage, Lake, and Winnebago counties in Illinois by evaluators from Loyola University Chicago and Northwestern University Medical School. These programs are supported by Anti-Drug Abuse Act funds administered by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. The evaluation compared the relative effectiveness of the newer specialized sex offender probation programs in the three counties to the standard probation strategies they replaced, and identified the characteristics that are linked to recidivism.
This evaluation summary highlights findings from the 2002 study of Chicagos Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS). The results focus on problem solving as one of the core elements of CAPS. As in many cities, problem solving is one of the key components of Chicagos community policing program.
This report is a summary of an implementation evaluation of the Juvenile Justice Reform Provisions of 1998 conducted by the Authority for the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission. This issue describes information included in the family group conference case study report.