Oregon State Justice Statistics Program

The State Justice Statistics (SJS) Program is designed to maintain and enhance each state's capacity to address criminal justice issues through collection and analysis of data. The SJS Program provides support to each state to coordinate and conduct statistical activities within the state, conduct research to estimate impacts of legislative and policy changes, and serve as a liaison in assisting BJS to gather data from respondent agencies within their states.

Under this award, the Oregon SAC will continue conducting the following activities: 1) refine the cost benefit model of criminal justice programs to estimate the benefits of new and existing programs in Oregon; 2) review effectiveness of drug courts and set performance measures through an in-depth analysis of county differences and add severity using treatment data from the Department of Human Services; 3) integrate data across the criminal justice system by linking arrest, charge and correctional admissions data records to evaluate program outcomes and sentencing practices; 4) update the SAC website for arrests and offenses for 2007, adding monthly drug arrest trends and including mapping capabilities; and 5) improve tribal crime data by assisting tribes in developing crime prevention programs and studying crime trends.

CA/NCF

The State Justice Statistics (SJS) Program is designed to maintain and enhance each state's capacity to address criminal justice issues through collection and analysis of data. The SJS Program provides support to each state to coordinate and conduct statistical activities within the state, conduct research to estimate impacts of legislative and policy changes, and serve as a liaison in assisting BJS to gather data from respondent agencies within their states.

Under this award, the Oregon SAC will continue conducting the following activities: (1) refine the cost benefit model of criminal justice programs to estimate the benefits of new and existing programs in Oregon; (2) review effectiveness of drug courts utilizing criminal history records and courts and corrections data to measure recidivism; (3) integrate data across the criminal justice system by linking arrest, charge, and correctional admissions data to evaluate program outcomes and sentencing practices; (4) update the SAC's new interactive website to include drug arrest trends by drug type and county; (5) improve tribal crime data by assisting tribes in developing crime prevention programs and studying crime trends; and (6) conduct another statewide victimization survey (previously conducted in 2004) to capture large crime decreases Oregon has experienced in recent years and compare with the public's perception of crime.

CA/NCF