NCJ Number
164181
Date Published
1995
Length
465 pages
Annotation
A comprehensive evaluation of the criminal justice system of San Joaquin County (Calif.) produced 88 recommendations for actions to achieve cost efficiencies, savings, and new revenues to develop a long-term management strategy for adequate levels of service and avoid a collapse of criminal justice service in an era of State funding cutbacks and changing attitudes about resource allocation.
Abstract
Previous analyses concluded that inadequate management of the system as a whole contributes to the widening gap between the supply of criminal justice services and the demand for them. Areas requiring attention include general coordination and management, punishment philosophy, management information, front-end efficiency and screening, and duplication of effort. Criminal justice agencies will probably require new revenue even if all efficiency recommendations are implemented. Actions that should receive highest priority include implementing a revitalized adult and juvenile population and criminal justice management system, developing a family crisis intervention unit to provide intensive pre-screening for juvenile justice, implementing a public education program on criminal justice system management and costs, and establishing an added 5 percent sales tax. Additional recommendations, tables, footnotes, and appended source lists and additional analyses and findings