This page seeks to provide a single jumping-off point from which to find recent reports and publications from the Division of Criminal Justice. Please note that this page is not a comprehensive archive and that you may need to reach out to a specific office to request a specific document (especially if it is more than 3 years old). You can also search publications by year on the Office of Research and Statistics reports page.
A
- Annual Reports
Many reports published by the Division of Criminal Justice and its related Boards and Commissions are published on an annual basis. Please look under the name of the topic or the name of the Board/Commission for its annual report.
B
- Body-Worn Cameras
Recommendations Regarding Body-Worn Camera Policies in Colorado (2016) - pursuant to HB 15-1285
C
- CLEAR Act
Please see "Race and Ethnicity"
- Colorado Crime Statistics
- Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice
Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice Reports & Publications
- Community Corrections
- Community Corrections Annual Reports - Annual reports providing a detailed analysis of all Community Corrections in Colorado.
- Community Corrections Advisory Council Meeting Minutes Community Corrections Profile- Interactive database providing demographic information, termination reasons (outcome), length of stay, and recidivism for all residential community corrections programs.
- Community Corrections in Colorado: Program Outcomes and Recidivism (FY2014-16)
- Community Corrections Subsistence Grace Period Pilot Project: Study Findings (2015) - A study to determine whether waiving a program fee for the first 28 days of a program improved offender outcomes.
- Risk Factor Analysis Reports - Regular reports that examine factors that could adversely affect elements of public safety and offender management. The analysis can be used as an important tool for internal programmatic analysis and improvement in the measured areas related to public safety and offender management.
- Correctional Populations
- Quarterly Correctional Populations (under Dashboard-Jails and Corrections - Corrections Data)
- Prison Population Forecasts (under Dashboard-Jails and Corrections - Corrections Data)
- Case Management and Case Planning
- The Case for Case Planning (2020) - Research summary on effectiveness, benefits, characteristics, and addressing specific needs.
- Case Planning for Juveniles Fidelity Criteria (2020) - Case planning and implementation best practices for practitioners
- CTAP Case Plan Fidelity Worksheet - Coaches should complete this worksheet once monthly for their coaching sessions with facility case managers.
- EPE - Giving Feedback - Provides foundational concepts of Elicit-Provide-Elicit to help you get started with coaching.
- Effective Case Management Coaching Packet - Developed for the 2007 Prison Reentry Initiative by the Carey Group and the Center for Effective Public Policy. Provides an in-depth overview of best practices for case management.
- Creating SMART Objectives - fundamentals of writing "SMART" objectives, with sample objectives.
- Writing Objectives for Skill Training with Directed Practice - Helpful hints to generate ideas around skills, which can be used for crafting client objectives.
- Criminogenic Needs - Outlines the top 8 criminogenic risk factors and the needs associated with each factor.
D
- Domestic Violence
- DVOMB Standards and Guidelines for the Assessment, Evaluation, Treatment and Behavioral Monitoring of Domestic Violence Offenders
- Domestic Violence Case Processing in Colorado (2016) - examined domestic violence cases in the state court administrative record data set and compared recidivism rates of those who received DV treatment with those who did not.
- DVOMB e-newsletter
- Youth Who Have Committed Domestic Violence
- Drugs
- For reports focused solely on marijuana, please visit "Marijuana" under "M."
- Presentation on the impacts of Substances in Colorado (2016)
- Analysis of Senate Bill 13-250: Changes to sentencing of persons convicted of drug crimes (2017)
- Comprehensive Drug Sentencing Scheme Proposal: Report to the Colorado Judiciary Committees of the House and Senate (2012)
- H.B. 10-1352 Savings Analysis Report: First Two Years of Implementation (2013) - examines marijuana as well as drug sentencing
E
- Evidence-Based Implementation
- 2020 EPIC Legislative Report
- 2017 EPIC Legislative Report
- 2014 EPIC Legislative Report
- Colorado Transitional Accountability Plan (CTAP) 2015
- EPIC (Evidence-based Practices Implementation for Capacity) Project Reports
- 1st Judicial District CYDC/Pre-Trial Release Program Semi-Annual Report (August 2020)
- Colorado Preventing Targeted Violence Semi-Annual Report (August 2020)
- ComCor,Inc. Semi-Annual Report (August 2020)
- Colorado Community Response Semi-Annual Report (August 2020)
- Office of Adult & Juvenile Justice Assistance Semi-Annual Report (August 2020)
- Denver CYDC 2nd Judicial District/Pre-Trial Release Program Semi-Annual Report (August 2020)
- Peer I Semi-Annual Report (August 2020)
- The Haven Semi-Annual Report (August 2020)
- Volunteers of America Semi-Annual Report (August 2020)
- Summary of Colorado Juvenile Diversion Practices (2019)
- Boulder Community Justice Services Project (2017)
- Colorado Department of Corrections CTAP Coaching Implementation Mid-Term Report (2015-2016)
- Larimer County Community Corrections Coaching Implementation Pilot (2015)
- Elements of Change: Highlighting Trends & Issues in the Criminal Justice System (2012)
- EBP - The Implications of Supervision - Strategies for Improving Corrections' Capacity for Implementing EBP
G
- Grant Reports
H
- Human Trafficking
J
- Juveniles in the Justice System
- Colorado Commission on Criminal & Juvenile Justice Annual Reports
- Evaluation of the Youthful Offender System (YOS) in Colorado
- Juvenile Diversion
- Juvenile Diversion via Restorative Justice - Please see "Restorative Justice."
- Colorado's Three-Year Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Plan (2021-2023) (Updated July 2021)
- Colorado's Three-Year Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Plan (2018-2020) (Updated August 2018)
- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Plan (2015-2017)
- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Council Reports
- Juvenile Incarceration Projections -- Please see "Correctional Population Forecasts" Under "Correctional Populations."
- Juvenile Screening and Assessment Tools
- Standards and Guidelines for the Evaluation, Assessment, Treatment and Supervision of Juveniles Who Have Committed Sexual Offenses
- Criminal Justice Contact (law enforcement, district attorneys) with Students - provides data dashboards by academic years
M
- Marijuana
- A Study of Homelessness in Seven Colorado Jails (2018) (Includes questions about reasons for moving to Colorado & staying in Colorado, including legal marijuana) Driving Under the Influence
- Law Enforcement Contacts with Students (released annually, includes incidents of marijuana-related crime)
- Impacts of Marijuana Legalization in Colorado (released once every two years)
- Brief review of literature on medical marijuana laws & crime (2017)
- Marijuana Tax Funds
- Summary of FY2017-2018 Marijuana Tax Cash Funds Awards (Division of Criminal Justice) (2017)
- Sentencing reform
- Analysis of Senate Bill 13-250: Changes to sentencing of persons convicted of drug crimes (2017)
- Comprehensive Drug Sentencing Scheme Proposal: Report to the Colorado Judiciary Committees of the House and Senate (2012)
- H.B. 10-1352 Savings Analysis Report: First Two Years of Implementation (2013) - examines marijuana as well as drug sentencing
- Mental Illness
- John Echon Re-entry Program Process Evaluation (2011) - examines issue of offenders with mental illness re-entering the community.
- Motivational Interviewing
- 10 Things MI is Not
- Motivational Interviewing - What Is It And How Can It Change Your Life?
- Program Evaluation in the Context of Supervision Regime Change: Motivational Interviewing in Colorado (Justice Quarterly, 2018)
- Progress Toward Motivational Interviewing Proficiency in Corrections: Results of a Colorado Staff Development Program (Justice Research and Policy, 2013)
- The 4 Processes in Motivational Interviewing
- The Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers
- The Use of Confrontation...and Time for Change
O
- Officer-involved Shootings
P
- Parole
- Analysis of Colorado State Board of Parole Decisions (all years available at ORS: Documents-Reports)
- Parole Population Projections - Please see "Correctional Population Forecasts" under "Correctional Populations" above.
- Race and Ethnicity in Parole Decisions - Please see "Racial & Ethnic Disparity" under "Race and Ethnicity" below.
- Prison
- Prison and corrections data available at ORS: Dashboard - Jails and Corrections-Corrections Data include:
- Annual Correctional Population
- Quarterly Correctional Population
- Length of Stay in Prison
- Prison Population Projections
- Recidivism
- Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Standards, Resources & Information
- Prison and corrections data available at ORS: Dashboard - Jails and Corrections-Corrections Data include:
R
- Race and Ethnicity
- Disproportionate Minority Contact (Office of Adult and Juvenile and Justice Assistance)
- ORS: Dashboards & Reports on Racial and Ethnic Disparity. Available information includes:
- Report on the C.L.E.A.R. Act: Community Law Enforcement Action Reporting Act
- Juvenile MOR (JJDP Act)
- Interactive dashboards
- Restorative Justice
2016 Report on Implementation of HB 2013-1254 - Summary of pilot project sites for diverting juveniles from the justice system through restorative justice practices.
- Risk Factors & Risk Scales
- Risk Scales & Handbooks (Office of Research and Statistics)
- Colorado Actuarial Risk Assessment Scale (CARAS)
- Colorado State Board of Parole Administrative Release Guideline Instrument
- Sex Offender Risk Assessments (SORS, SVPASI, & SOMB Checklist)
- Is Prison Sexual Offending Behavior Indicative of Community Risk? (2009)
- Risk Scales & Handbooks (Office of Research and Statistics)
S
- Sentencing
- Analysis of Senate Bill 13-250: Changes to sentencing of persons convicted of drug crimes(2017)
- Comprehensive Drug Sentencing Scheme Proposal: Report to the Colorado Judiciary Committees of the House and Senate(2012)
- H.B. 10-1352 Savings Analysis Report: First Two Years of Implementation(2013) - examines marijuana as well as drug sentencing
- Sex Offenders - Treatment & Management
- Is Prison Sexual Offending Behavior Indicative of Community Risk? (2009)
- Lifetime Supervision of Sex Offenders Annual Report (Found under SOMB Legislative Reports)
- Sex Offender Management Board Reports & Publications- Legislative reports, external evaluations of the SOMB standards, SOMB Sunset reviews, research papers, position papers
- Sex offender Polygraph Testing in the United States: Trends and Controversies(2009)
- Standards & Guidelines for Assessment, Treatment Evaluation and Monitoring
- Student Contacts in Criminal Justice
V
- VALE
- Victim Advocacy
Y
- Youthful Offenders
Please see "Juveniles in the Justice System."