A Review of the Status of DMC Efforts in Iowa and Virginia - April 2010

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explore ways that states can make better use of the RRI data, since states appear to be expending considerable resources to collect and report these data. 2. OJJDP should require states to report RRI data for every locality in the state where the juvenile minority population meets a specified minimum threshold (number or percent of state population). The data elements required to compute RRIs are basic data that every agency and institution that deals with youth should maintain. Implementing this requirement might help facilitate states’ improvement of their data collection systems, and would also provide OJJDP with much more comprehensive picture of DMC nationally. 3. OJJDP should re-examine the five step process for analyzing and interpreting RRI values provided in the Manual, and develop an automated tool for localities to use in implementing (the first four steps of) the process. As they read now, some steps appear to be more useful for local jurisdictions, while others might be more useful to the state. We believe the process should be revisited and the steps clarified. 4. OJJDP should reconsider its guidance requiring states to target a minimum of three localities to encourage more flexibility in how states deal with DMC issues. We are suggesting that OJJDP explore a system that would more strongly encourage states to target a larger number of jurisdictions for DMC interventions. With the expanded RRI data that would result from implementing our second recommendation, it might be possible to develop a tiered approach, where more effort is put on localities with more severe DMC problems, but localities with lesser problems are still targeted for intervention. ix
5. OJJDP should undertake a comprehensive analysis of the RRI data collected through its Web-based data entry system. The analysis should address key issues, such as degree of variation across localities and how missing data affect the RRI calculations. We would also suggest that OJJDP make the RRI data collected via the data entry system accessible to all justice professionals. 6. States should update RRI data annually and post the most recent RRI data on their Web sites, along with their three-year plans and annual updates. States should, as quickly as possible after the end of the calendar/fiscal year, process and make available the previous year’s RRI data. In addition, states should keep RRI data from prior years on their Web sites, so that local professionals and the public can gauge progress toward reducing DMC. Assessment 1. OJJDP should convene a group to explore the development of a state-level DMC strategic planning process. A group comprised of DMC and state researchers, state DMC coordinators and state administering agency representatives should be convened to discuss how states can develop strategic plans for addressing DMC issues. The goal of the group would be to develop a process that, when implemented, would result in a state’s being able to understand the nature of the DMC problem, how best to combat the problem, how to measure performance toward reducing DMC, and how to sustain DMC reduction efforts over time. x
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Page 15 and 16: Background In 2007, the Justice Res
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Page 39 and 40: Evaluation The Manual provides two
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W. Haywood Burns Institute. 2009 An
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