Delaware Felony Case Processing An Analysis of 2006 Adult Arrests

Group: Criminal Justice Council

URL: http://cjc.delaware.gov/sac/Historical/Crime/DelawareFelony2006Jan142011.pdf

Description

Delaware participated in the 2010 effort hosted by the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and administered by the Justice Research and Statistics Association to test the hypothesis that after all these criminal justice system improvements we could “push the button” for results. The answer is we and the four other participating states got viable results; the sticky point is the button got stuck. We were able to produce statewide numbers for the first time for all 2006 felony arrestees in the Delaware and track them successfully to either falling out of the felony part of the criminal justice system or being sentenced – sometimes to prison. Historically this is a remarkable feat. While the data exist that allows this analysis, which is good news, it still takes a very significant amount of work of knowledgeable researchers to put it together.

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record linkage, case processing, felony, courts, corrections, law enforcement

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