NCJ Number
174160
Date Published
1997
Length
95 pages
Annotation
This is a statistical overview of activities and outcomes throughout the District of Columbia's criminal justice system.
Abstract
The District's criminal justice system includes six basic organizational components: police, prosecution, defense, courts, corrections and parole. Together they carry out the criminal justice process, from detection of crime and apprehension of criminals through pretrial decisions and services, trial, sentencing and corrections or service of sentences. The various agencies participate in numerous data-gathering activities to monitor and evaluate the criminal justice system and to examine trends that affect the system. This report includes: Summary of Major Trends; Criminal Justice Costs; Revitalizing the District; Processing Offenders; Law Enforcement (including Policing the District's Border, Combating Gang Violence and Community Policing); Court Processing (including Community Prosecution and Responding to Domestic Violence); Corrections; and Parole. Tables, figures, appendixes