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The Justice Information Center (JIC) is a searchable database of the research and evaluation work of the Justice Information Resource Network's staff, members, and partners. The JIC also includes other open-access and public-domain research-based materials. The JIC's contents are from the national, state, and local levels covering a range of crime and justice topics grouped into several Communities and Collections based on our projects.

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    Arrest trends in Washington over the past two decades
    (Washington State Statistical Analysis Center, 2025-10-17) Georgoulas-Sherry, Vasiliki; Hernandez, Hanna
    Collecting and analyzing data is essential for understanding and evaluating the arrest trends in Washington in past decades — as well as, at times, demographic differences such as disparities and disproportionalities — within the criminal justice system. Gaining insight into these trends and disparities is crucial for identifying and addressing criminal trends and systemic inequities. This issue continues to draw significant attention from a wide range of sources, including local, state, and federal agencies; advocacy organizations; policymakers; researchers; scholars; and community members. Ongoing evaluation of these trends and disparities is vital for promoting fairness, ensuring accountability, and advancing equity within the criminal justice system. To respond to these impacts, the Criminal Justice Research & Statistics Center - the Washington Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) applied for and received the 2023 State Justice Statistics (SJS) grant from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to assess this work. Through data from the Washington State Patrol (WSP), which maintains the Computerized Criminal History (CCH), this report evaluates the arrest trends in the U.S. over the past 25 years and the underlying arrest trends and demographic differences that impact the criminal justice system.
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    Sheriff's Management Study
    (South Dakota Office of Attorney General, Division of Criminal Investigation, Statistical Analysis Center, 2025-10-17) Hall, Kallie
    From June to August 2025, the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation’s Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) surveyed Sheriff’s Offices in the state. A survey, accompanied by instructions, was sent to all Sheriff’s Offices via email attachment. This was the twenty-first time the SAC compiled statewide management data pertaining to South Dakota Sheriff’s Offices. The results of this survey are intended to provide sheriffs with a valid means of comparing expenditures and resources of offices across the state. In addition, the results can provide the sheriffs with a substantial basis from which to justify future management decisions.
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    Behavioral Health Initiatives Report Per Senate Bill 973 (2019) and House Bill 3069 (2025)
    (Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, 2025-10-31) Ash-Houchen, William; Beck, Kaysea; Benton, Monica; Sorensen, Avery; Needham Waddell, Elizabeth; Rainer, Sara; Simeon, Erika; Feryn, Alicia
    The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) now administers two grant programs that fall under the agency’s behavioral health initiative: the Improving People’s Access to Community-based Treatment, Supports and Services (IMPACTS) grant program and the Oregon Behavioral Health Deflection (BHD) grant program. While both IMPACTS and BHD focus on individuals at the intersection of behavioral health and the criminal legal system, these two programs are separate and distinct, each with their own goals, priorities, target populations, strategies for intervention, and outcomes. The IMPACTS grant program was established by the Oregon Legislature in 2019 through Senate Bill 973 to increase the availability of community-based supports and services to a target population of individuals with a behavioral health condition and frequent criminal legal system and/or emergency health services involvement. Further, the Oregon Legislature established the BHD grant program in 2024 through House Bill 4002 to establish deflection programs designed to create community-based pathways to treatment and recovery for individuals before entering the criminal legal system. Both grant programs’ funding is available to Oregon’s counties and federally recognized tribal governments. In the 2023-25 grant cycle, IMPACTS grantees represented 11 counties across the state and five federally recognized tribal governments, and BHD grantees represented 28 counties and six federally recognized tribal governments. The aim of each program is to reduce the frequency with which persons served are involved with the criminal legal system. The outcomes explored in this report will showcase the similarities and differences between these two initiatives and will highlight the jurisdictional discretion afforded to grantees as they serve related but distinct target populations.
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    FY 2025 Citizen Centric Report
    (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 2025-10-23) Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Criminal Justice Planning Agency
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    Criminal justice case processing arrest through disposition New York state January - March 2025
    (NYS, 2025-10) New York State, Division of Criminal Justice Services
    This report details how felony cases are processed in New York State's superior courts and its publication fulfils the statutory reporting requirements outlined in Section 837-a of Executive Law requiring the Division of Criminal Justice Services to collect and analyze statistical information on felony indictments, superior court informations and the dispositions of felony cases.