Sec. 4. The division shall be organized and administered to fulfill the following purposes:
(1) To inform the public and responsible governmental officials as to the nature of the crime problem, its magnitude, and its trend over time.
(2) To measure the effects of prevention and deterrence programs, ranging from community action to police patrol.
(3) To find out who commits crimes by age, sex, family status, income, ethnic and residential background, and other social attributes, to find the proper focus of crime prevention programs.
(4) To measure the workload and effectiveness of all agencies of the criminal justice system, both individually and as an integrated system.
(5) To analyze the factors contributing to success and failure of probation, parole, and other correctional alternatives for various kinds of offenders.
(6) To provide criminal justice agencies with comparative norms of performance.
(7) To furnish baseline data for research.
(8) To compute the costs of crime in terms of economic injury inflicted upon communities and individuals, as well as to assess the direct public expenditures by criminal justice agencies.
(9) To project expected crime rates and their consequences into the future for more enlightened government planning.
[Pre-2003 Recodification Citation: 10-1-2.5-2 part.]
As added by P.L.2-2003, SEC.4.
Copyright ©2024 LegalFix. All rights reserved. LegalFix is not a law firm, is not licensed to practice law, and does not provide legal advice, services, or representation. The information on this website is an overview of the legal plans you can purchase—or that may be provided by your employer as an employee benefit or by your credit union or other membership group as a membership benefit.
LegalFix provides its members with easy access to affordable legal services through a network of independent law firms. LegalFix, its corporate entity, and its officers, directors, employees, agents, and contractors do not provide legal advice, services, or representation—directly or indirectly.
The articles and information on the site are not legal advice and should not be relied upon—they are for information purposes only. You should become a LegalFix member to get legal services from one of our network law firms.
You should not disclose confidential or potentially incriminating information to LegalFix—you should only communicate such information to your network law firm.
The benefits and legal services described in the LegalFix legal plans are not always available in all states or with all plans. See the legal plan Benefit Overview and the more comprehensive legal plan contract during checkout for coverage details in your state.
Use of this website, the purchase of legal plans, and access to the LegalFix networks of law firms are subject to the LegalFix Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.