§ 10-13-2-4 — Purpose

The division shall be organized and
administered to fulfill the following purposes:
(1) To inform the public and responsible governmental officials
as to the nature of the crime problem, its magnitude, and its trend
over time.
(2) To measure the effects of prevention and deterrence programs,
ranging from community action to police patrol.
(3) To find out who commits crimes by age, sex, family status,
income, ethnic and residential background, and other social
attributes, to find the proper focus of crime prevention programs.
(4) To measure the workload and effectiveness of all agencies of
the criminal justice system, both individually and as an integrated
system.
(5) To analyze the factors contributing to success and failure of
probation, parole, and other correctional alternatives for various
kinds of offenders.
(6) To provide criminal justice agencies with comparative norms
of performance.
(7) To furnish baseline data for research.
(8) To compute the costs of crime in terms of economic injury
inflicted upon communities and individuals, as well as to assess
the direct public expenditures by criminal justice agencies.
(9) To project expected crime rates and their consequences into
the future for more enlightened government planning.
[Pre-2003 Recodification Citation: 10-1-2.5-2 part.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2003, SEC.4.