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Contents
JRSA ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
SAC Directors Elect JRSA's Executive Committee for 2012-2013
Statistical Analysis Centers Win Awards for Outstanding Publications
Missouri SAC Wins 2012 SAC Web Site Award
NATIONAL SCENE
Leveraging National Standards to Accelerate Recidivism Studies: Nlets, BJS, and the States
New Chief of FBI Crime Statistics Unit Named
SBE and NIJ Formalize Research Collaboration
NRC Report Advocates Using Research to Shape Juvenile Justice Reform
JRSA NEWS
JRSA's IBRRC Posts Reports from Idaho, New Mexico, and Vermont SACs
JRSA Concludes Evaluation of Utah Mentoring Program
ASC Panel Highlights Illinois State Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships
New Online Resources Available from NJJEC
SAC NEWS
New SAC Director Named in Alaska
News from Illinois, Iowa, Maine, New York, Oregon
The JRSA Forum is supported by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. JRSA is a national nonprofit organization. For membership or other information, call (202) 842-9330, e-mail cjinfo@jrsa.org, or visit our Web site: http://www.jrsa.org.
Karen F. Maline, Editor
Nancy Michel, Managing Editor
JRSA OFFICERS AND STAFF:
Phillip Stevenson, President
Stephen Haas, Vice President
Carmen Dorsey, Secretary/ Treasurer
Lisa Broidy, Delegate
Janeena J. Wing, Delegate
David Olson, Appointed Delegate
Jackie Vandercook, Past President
Joan C. Weiss, Executive Director
Ali Burnett, Office Manager
Sandra Dayton, Director of Finance and Administration
Shawn Flower, Research Associate
Karen F. Maline, Director of Member Services
Nancy Michel, Director of Publications
Stan Orchowsky, Research Director
Marc Osman, Web Site Manager
Jason Trask, Program Associate
Lisa Walbolt Wagner, Research Associate
Carrie Williamson, Research Associate
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ASC Panel Highlights Illinois State Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships
Building on 2011 American Society of Criminology (ASC) panels on communication between researchers and practitio- ners, Criminal Justice Journalists and the Justice Research and Statistics Association held two panels this year at the ASC meeting in Chicago--one with a national perspective and one with a state perspective. JRSA coordinated the November 15th panel on the state perspective, which highlighted two researcher-practitioner collaborations at the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA). ICJIA, which houses the state's Statistical Analysis Center (SAC), provides data and technical assistance to inform decisionmaking on a wide range of state justice issues. JRSA Research Director Stan Orchowsky moderated the panel, and Illinois SAC Director and ICJIA Research Director Mark Myrent spoke on the SAC's role in the two collaborations.
"Adult Redeploy Illinois" provides financial incentives to jurisdictions for designing community-based programs to treat offenders in the community instead of sending them to prison. Panelist MaryAnn Dyar, Program Administrator of Adult Redeploy Illinois, discussed the program and the SAC's role in tracking implementation and providing technical assistance to ensure that program components like drug courts, intensive probation supervision, and cognitive-based therapy were implemented with fidelity to evidence-based models. Staff created a database across 10 sites, and are analyzing performance measures for feedback and program enhancement.
Panelist Leslie Landis, Chief Court Administrator of the Domestic Violence Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, spoke about the Cook County Domestic Violence Court and its collaboration with the SAC. The SAC established a data collection process and tool for case management and service assistance linkage for clients seeking services.
The insights from reviewing data pertaining to civil and criminal orders of protections and court case proceedings resulted in recommendations to modify court triage protocols to enhance long-term safety and access to services for domestic violence victims.
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