NCJ Number
79827
Date Published
Unknown
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0 pages
Annotation
Four representatives of federally funded criminal justice information processing and dissemination agencies instruct court planning specialists on the resources available through them. A Cleveland project is reported to identify local resources.
Abstract
Cheryl Martorana, chief of the Office of Research Programs for the Courts Division of the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice reports on the status of current projects underway in her office. Currently, $2 million are being allocated per year for research. Noteworthy projects to be completed shortly are the development of performance indicators for courts, an evaluation design for defender offices, and sentencing guidelines for judges. Carolyn Berstein reports on Model Program Development, a Federal effort to identify outstanding projects, verify their accomplishments, and disseminate the research results nationally. Exemplary Programs publications report a single project; Prescriptive Packages contain synthesized results from several projects. A series of monographs describe good projects that did not meet the stringent evaluation criteria of the exemplary program category. Martin Lively, of the Office of Technology Transfer describes regional training workshops organized on special topics four or five times a year and the demonstration funding available for approximately two subjects annually. The speaker emphasizes that his office needs State and regional feedback to identify the best people and projects for inclusion in these efforts. Caroline Cooper represents American University's Technical Assistance Project, a service which seeks to give a practical response to a local agency's pressing problems. Francis Bremson describes the Cleveland Court Management Project, which utilizes private resources outside the government -- notably consultants, intra-agency people, in-house agency specialists, and community groups such as the local bar association, universities, citizen agencies, and private foundations.