PORTLAND – Crime directly impacted one out of every three adults in the state of Maine in 2021, accordingly to the 2022 Maine Crime Victimization Report released by the University of Southern Maine’s Survey Research Center and Maine Statistical Analysis Center (SAC)....
The State of Maine Victim Needs Assessment (VSNA), completed by the University of Southern Maine’s Catherine Cutler Institute, documents concerns about the unmet needs of crime victims in Maine. Specifically, people of color are more likely to experience almost every...
In a just-released report, co-authored by the University of Southern Maine’s Catherine Cutler Institute and Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, researchers found no evidence that demonstrates...
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...
