Population, Crime and Arrest Trends

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Population, Crime and Arrest Trends

• Corrections Alternative Advisory Committee
• 11/1/2005

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Data Sources

• All reported crime, arrests, and clearance rates
  from DPS Crime in Maine publication
• Court data from Maine Administrative Office of
  the Courts
• Corrections data (including county jail data)
  from BJS and MDOC
• Census Bureau

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Population Trends
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Over the next 25 years, the prime age cohort for
crimes (15-44 years old) will decline across the
state
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Index Crime Analysis
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Index crimes declined 17 over the last 10 years
of reported data
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10 year crime trends
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Index Crime change 1994-2003
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In 2003, DV assaults reached a 10 year high
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Arrest Report Analysis
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Arrest rates for Index crimes are down over the
last ten years
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Over the last decade, arrests for drug abuse
violations have increased 68 percent
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For the 10th consecutive year, more females were
arrested
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Juvenile arrests for drug and alcohol violations
more than doubled in the last ten years
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Corrections Analysis
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Maine has the lowest incarceration rate per
capita in the nation
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The average in-house population of adult inmates
in county jails has nearly doubled over the last
ten years
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Maine has among the lowest percentage of
corrections expenditures in the nation
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Primary Conviction of Inmates in State Prison
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Data book is available at http//muskie/usm.maine.
edu/justiceresearch