Hannah Brintlinger, Research Analyst with the Maine Statistical Analysis Center at USM’s Catherine Cutler Institute, was interviewed about the recent release of the 2022 Bias and Hate Crimes Report. Watch the news coverage and interview.
The Maine Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) worked with several criminal justice stakeholders across the state to determine arrest rates and outcomes for hate and bias crimes in Maine that were reported by law enforcement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI)...
The number of closed deferred disposition cases, those that were successful or unsuccessful, rose 12.8% from 2014 to 2017. This finding comes from a recently released report, Use of Deferred Dispositions in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Cases in Maine, produced...
In February of 2019, in response to the high rates of opioid-related morbidity and mortality in Maine, Governor Mills signed an Executive Order to implement an immediate response to Maine’s opioid epidemic. Given that a substantial portion of the opioid-related deaths...
A report on the use of sexual assault kits in Maine, by the University of Southern Maine’s Cutler Institute for Health and Social Policy on behalf of the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MECASA), has received the Douglas Yearwood National Publication Award from...
