Reports on a recently completed inventory of information systems in State and Federal departments of adult corrections intended to establish a basis for improving the capacity to provide comparable data and to facilitate cross-jurisdictional research. Conducted by the Urban Institute, the study addresses concerns raised by the State-Federal Committee of the Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) about the absence of common definitions of corrections performance measures and lack of knowledge about what correctional information systems actually contain. The report organizes 207 offender-based data elements into four stages of corrections processing and then into 28 groupings of relatively homogeneous elements.
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- Executive Summary, 87K
- Executive Summary, 33K
- Full Report, 788K
- Full Report, 161K
- Chapter 1: Profiling and describing offenders, 54K
- Chapter 1: Profiling and describing offenders, 4K
- Chapter 2: Committing offenders into correctional authority, 80K
- Chapter 2: Committing offenders into correctional authority, 11K
- Chapter 3: Managing offenders in corrections facilities, 77K
- Chapter 3: Managing offenders in corrections facilities, 11K
- Chapter 4: Supervising offenders on release and maintaining public safety, 66K
- Chapter 4: Supervising offenders on release and maintaining public safety, 7K
- Chapter 5: Facility management information, 27K
- Chapter 5: Facility management information, 3K
- Chapter 6: Reporting capabilities, 83K
- Chapter 6: Reporting capabilities - ZIP Format, 19K
- Chapter 7: An empirical core, 92K
- Chapter 7: An empirical core - ZIP Format, 17K
- Chapter 8: Using the Inventory report, 30K
- Appendices, 322K
- Appendices - ZIP Format, 45K
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