May 19, 2022
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)...
Nov 16, 2021
For nearly two decades, the Maine Department of Corrections has used data to track, analyze, and report on youth involved in the juvenile justice system. The goal of this research is to help assess the success of responses to system-involved youth by identifying...
Feb 19, 2021
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...
Oct 14, 2020
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...
Mar 2, 2020
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...
Sep 11, 2019
This study was commissioned by the Juvenile Justice Advisory Group (JJAG) to learn more about how SROs are deployed in Maine, and to understand if they are creating a culture of safety in Maine schools. This study collects existing national research on SROs, including...
