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  • New York State launches Domestic Incident Report Repository

    New secure, online database gives law enforcement cross-jurisdictional access to information about reported incidents of domestic violence in the Upstate and Long Island counties. For the first time, law enforcement will be able to search for incident information regardless of which police agency responded to a call or filed a report.

  • Sex offender locator now available via Facebook

    Facebook users can now access information about medium- and high-risk sex offenders living in their neighborhood, next to their workplace or near their child’s school with just a few clicks – and without leaving the popular social networking site.

  • Crime in New York State continues to decline; reported crime at lowest point in decades last year

    Crime in New York State declined 4.4 percent during the first six months of 2011, as compared to the same timeframe last year, with reductions reported statewide in each of the seven index crime categories. At the same time, final crime statistics for 2010 show that overall reported crime in the state was at its lowest level since 1975.

  • Domestic Homicide in New York State: 2010 report now available

    Intimate partner homicides declined 19 percent statewide last year, with law enforcement agencies reporting 73 homicides as compared to 90 each in 2009 and 2008, according to the 2010 Domestic Homicide Report released by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS). As in previous years, the report shows that women continue to be most at risk for violence by someone they know: 44 percent of the adult female homicide victims in the state were killed by their intimate partner; only 1.7 percent of all adult male homicide victims were killed by an intimate partner.

  • Enhancing services for domestic violence victims

    The New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence has released two reports – the 2010 Domestic Violence Dashboard Project and the 2010 New York State Domestic Violence Annual Report – that provide a detailed look at the amount of domestic violence that is reported through a variety of agencies, as well as the state’s efforts to raise awareness, enhance protections for victims and partner with law enforcement to hold offenders accountable for their behavior.

  • Hate Crime in New York State 2010 Annual Report now available

    New York State experienced a slight increase in the number of reported hate crimes last year. A total of 699 hate crime incidents were reported to police in 2010, as compared to 683 in 2009, an increase of 2 percent.

  • DCJS Video on Child Predators Wins Awards

    Child Sexual Predators: The Familiar Stranger, which was created by DCJS to provide parents with crucial information about protecting their children against sexual predators, has won two prestigious awards, a Telly Award and a Communicator Award.

  • Symposia on "Juvenile Assessment Centers"

    DCJS recently sponsored two forums at which experts discussed “Juvenile Assessment Centers” as an early-intervention strategy to address juvenile crime and delinquency. The presenters were: Dr. Gladys Negron-Soto, Manager of Public Policy Research and Justice Assistance for the Miami-Dade County Juvenile Services Department; Jeffery McDonald, Executive Director for Juvenile Service Programs in Jefferson County, Colorado; Kimberly Sokoloff Selvaggi, Program Manager for the Juvenile Programs and Services Unit at the State of Connecticut Judicial Branch; and, Dr. Jeffrey A. Butts, Executive Director of the Research and Evaluation Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

  • New strangulation law proving an effective tool for law enforcement

    More than 2,000 individuals were arrested for strangulation offenses across New York State in the 15 weeks following the law’s effective date, according to a research brief issued by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), and the new law is providing police and prosecutors with an effective tool, particularly in the fight against domestic violence.

  • DCJS podcast library

    Check out DCJS' podcast library of interesting and informative criminal justice topics.