NCJ Number
83735
Editor(s)
G A Buck
Date Published
1970
Length
300 pages
Annotation
This report presents the proceedings of a national symposium on criminal justice information and statistics systems, held in Dallas in November 1970.
Abstract
The symposium was sponsored by Project SEARCH, an 18-month multistate effort designed to develop a prototype computerized criminal justice information system designed to permit rapid interstate transfers of criminal histories and to demonstrate the accounting of individual offenders proceeding through the criminal justice system. The symposium was held to disseminate the results of the project and to share information on other progressive criminal justice information systems at the regional, State, and local levels. The 31 presentations at the symposium focused on such topics as security and privacy considerations, the legislative implications of Project Search, court information systems, an online retrieval system for computer-assisted parole decisionmaking, and data collection for Project SEARCH. Other topics included problems associated with the development of a national criminal information system, the state-of-the-art in criminal statistics, the activities of the National Criminal Justice Statistics Center, and the development of integrated criminal records. The keynote address traced the development and implications of Project SEARCH. Figures, tables, and references for some presentations are provided.