Indiana Code 10-13-2-4. Purpose
(1) To inform the public and responsible governmental officials as to the nature of the crime problem, its magnitude, and its trend over time.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 10-13-2-4
- Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
- division: refers to the criminal justice data division established by section 2 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 10-13-2-1
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
(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.