Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning, Department of Human Rights Performance Plan, FY 2009

Agency Performance Plan, Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning, Department of Human Rights

Iowa Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning, Strategic Plan, 2007

This report outlines the strategic plan for Iowa Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning including,goals and mission.

Audit report on the North Iowa Juvenile Detention Services Commission for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the North Iowa Juvenile Detention Services Commission for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Eldora, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Eldora, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2008

Audit report on the North Iowa Juvenile Detention Services Commission for the year ended June 30, 2009

Audit report on the North Iowa Juvenile Detention Services Commission for the year ended June 30, 2009

Status of Females in the Juvenile Justice System Iowa, 2009

Young women in the juvenile justice system present with characteristics and experiences that differentiate them from their male counterparts. As such, the juvenile justice system in Iowa must consider these factors if it is to effectively and efficiently impact recidivism, rehabilitation and public safety. Data reveal the following trends: All youth in the juvenile justice system experience a significantly higher rate of child maltreatment than do youth in the general population. Additionally, young women have a distinctly higher percentage of reported sexual abuse. Young women commit primarily non-violent offenses, with shoplifting and running away being the only two areas where they exceed young men in number. Young women are held in detention for a substantially higher percentage of misdemeanor versus felony offenses than young men. Young women of color, particularly African American females, are far more likely to come into contact with the juvenile justice system. Additionally, arrests of minority females have increased during the same time frame as arrests of Caucasian females have decreased. The general type of offense committed by young women is against public order (i.e. alcohol related violations, disorderly conduct) or property (i.e. shoplifting), though young women with subsequent charges of a violent nature are likely to have had violent offenses initially as well. Historically, young women have been a smaller segment of the juvenile justice population. They remain so today. Consequently, they are easy to overlook. But Iowa’s response to them is no less important. Perhaps, because they are fewer in number, our system can have a true and meaningful influence, with prevention of further penetration into both the juvenile and adult systems being the ultimate goal. The Iowa Task Force on Young Women recommends the following measures to facilitate movement toward that goal: 1. Facilities and programs striving to provide the most effective and efficient services to young women will opt for single gender environments with female responsive programming that includes components to address trauma. 2. All institutions and agencies that work with females involved in the juvenile justice system and which receive state funding should be required to provide annual female responsive training to their employees. Training should be research based, progressive, ongoing and result in an implementation plan. 3. As detention reform proceeds, gender and the disproportionate number of females in detention for misdemeanor offenses must be an integral part of policy and decision making discussions including any recommendations for solutions to be implemented. 4. As research, data and planning progresses related to disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile system, the needs of girls of color be given equal consideration. Specifically, assessment tools must be without race/ethnic bias and they must also be female responsive.

Audit report on the Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Eldora, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2009

Audit report on the Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Eldora, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2009

Report on the Juvenile Detention Home Fund administered by the Department of Human Services for the period July 1, 2007 through November 10, 2009

Report on the Juvenile Detention Home Fund administered by the Department of Human Services for the period July 1, 2007 through November 10, 2009

Audit report on the North Iowa Juvenile Detention Services Commission for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the North Iowa Juvenile Detention Services Commission for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Eldora, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Eldora, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2010

Audit report on the Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Eldora, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2011

Audit report on the Central Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Eldora, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2011

Audit report on the North Iowa Juvenile Detention Services Commission for the year ended June 30, 2011

Audit report on the North Iowa Juvenile Detention Services Commission for the year ended June 30, 2011

Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning Advisory Council Progress on the Long-range Justice System Plan, January 2010

Iowa Code Section 216A.135 requires the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning Advisory Council (CJJPAC) to submit a long-range plan for Iowa's justice system to the Governor and General Assembly every five years. The Criminal and Juvenile Justice Advisory Council directed that the 2005 plan be developed with input from the public. A public hearing was held in September 2004, utilizing the Iowa Communications Network at five sites across Iowa. Using the information gained, the Council developed new goals and strategies and modified others from the 2000 plan. The 2005 Long Range Goals for Iowa’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems, organized as follows, are meant to facilitate analyses and directions for justice system issues and concerns in Iowa.

Iowa Criminal and Juvenile Justice Plan, 1998

Pursuant to Iowa Code 216A, subchapter 9, CJJP is required to issue an annual report containing long-range systems goals, special issue planning recommendations and research findings. CJJP’s 1998 response to its reporting requirement is replicated in the manner of the distribution of the 1997 Update. Again this year, CJJP is issuing one large document which contains many separate reports. Single-issue 1998 Update reports will be made available based on reader interest and need. Having utilized this disseminating approach of CJJP research and reports in 1997, it proved to be cost effective and responsive to the planning activities and information needs of Iowa’s policy makers, justice system officials and others.

Dusproportionate Minority Contact in Iowa's Juvenile Justice System, April 2006

This report was developed to provide summary information to allow state agency staff, practitioners and juvenile justice system officials to access a specific section of Iowa’s Three Year Plan. It includes the Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) section of Iowa’s 2006 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act formula grant Three-Year Plan. The complete Three Year Plan serves as Iowa’s application for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act formula grant funding.