NIJ reports : a selective notification of information program of the National Institute of Justice.

Produced under contract J-LEAA-013-81.

A Call for action : the Illinois State Justice Commission final report, June 1996.

Report consists of (1) a description of issues identified by the Commission as important to future efforts to improve the quality of justice in Illinois, (2) a review and compilation of previous studies of the Illinois justice system, (3) highlights of national, state and local findings and (4) a guide for future action in Illinois.

Annual privacy and security audit report on the procedures, policies, and practices of the Department of Law Enforcement for maintaining criminal history record information for the period ending ... /

Description based on: June 30, 1979.

Annual report.

Recognizing the need to share critical information, the State of Illinois established the Illinois Integrated Justice Information System (IIJIS) Governing Board in 2001. This board, comprised of representatives from state, county, and municipal justice agencies, was charged with the responsibility of developing a plan for justice information sharing in Illinois. Their report, the Illinois Integrated Justice Information System Strategic Plan, was completed in December 2002. In order to implement the strategic plan developed by the IIJIS Board, Governor Rod Blagojevich created the Illinois Integrated Justice Information System Implementation Board in 2003. Created by executive Order 16, the IIJIS Implementation Board is an intergovernmental effort dedicated to improving the administration of justice in Illinois. It was created in recognition of the need to improve information sharing and to meet challenges to public safety, such as those presented by the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the Washington, DC serial sniper incident. In light of the demand for increased access to critical subject information, the Board is additionally charged with the responsibility of safeguarding individual privacy rights and preventing unauthorized disclosures of information.

Juvenile justice information policies in Illinois /

"May 1986."

Report of the Legislative Committee on Juvenile Justice.

"May 1996."

Report on the justice assistance and victims of crime acts of 1984.

"April 1985."

Report on the Justice Assistance and Victims of Crime Acts of 1984 : priority program recommendations.

"December 1986."

Riverboat gambling and crime in Illinois : preliminary report on riverboat gambling in Joliet, impact on criminal activity and law enforcement workloads.

Cover title.

The Impact of prior criminal history on recidivism in Illinois.

Caption title.

Observations on the criminal law of England : as it relates to capital punishments, and on the mode in which it is administered /

Includes bibliographical references.

Beyond the Pay: Current Illicit Activities of the Armed Forces in Central America

The growth of criminal gangs and organized crime groups has created unprecedented challenges in Central America. Homicide rates are among the highest in the world, countries spend on average close to 10 percent of GDP to respond to the challenges of public insecurity, and the security forces are frequently overwhelmed and at times coopted by the criminal groups they are increasingly tasked to counter. With some 90 percent of the 700 metric tons of cocaine trafficked from South America to the United States passing through Central America, the lure of aiding illegal traffickers through provision of arms, intelligence, or simply withholding or delaying the use of force is enormous. These conditions raise the question: to what extent are militaries in Central America compromised by illicit ties to criminal groups? The study focuses on three cases: Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras. It finds that: Although illicit ties between the military and criminal groups have grown in the last decade, militaries in these countries are not yet “lost’ to criminal groups. Supplying criminal groups with light arms from military stocks is typical and on the rise, but still not common. In general the less exposed services, the navies and air forces, are the most reliable and effective ones in their roles in interdiction. Of the three countries in the study, the Honduran military is the most worrying because it is embedded in a context where civilian corruption is extremely common, state institutions are notoriously weak, and the political system remains polarized and lacks the popular legitimacy and political will needed to make necessary reforms. Overall, the armed forces in the three countries remain less compromised than civilian peers, particularly the police. However, in the worsening crime and insecurity context, there is a limited window of opportunity in which to introduce measures targeted toward the military, and such efforts can only succeed if opportunities for corruption in other sectors of the state, in particular in law enforcement and the justice system, are also addressed. Measures targeted toward the military should include: Enhanced material benefits and professional education opportunities that open doors for soldiers in promising legitimate careers once they leave military service. A clear system of rewards and punishments specifically designed to deter collusion with criminal groups. More effective securing of military arsenals. Skills and external oversight leveraged through combined operations, to build cooperation among those sectors of the military that have successful and clean records in countering criminal groups, and to expose weaker forces to effective best practices.