1. Examining Kansas SB123: Mandatory Probation and Treatment
Good morning. My name is Linda Truitt.
I represent the Justice Systems Research Division of the National Institute of Justice.
NIJ is one of two science agencies—along with the Bureau of Justice Statistics,
Under the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice.
I manage NIJ’s criminal court research portfolio,
and coordinate drugs and crime research across NIJ offices.
This morning’s panel is one of two that I will facilitate today.
Both are based on NIJ grants that funded policy analyses of State legislation concerning drug-involved offenders.
This one is based on a comprehensive analysis of Kansas Senate Bill 123,
that was led by Dr. Don Stemen at the University of Loyola Chicago.
This project would not have been possible without the State and local stakeholders
who contributed substantially by providing reliable information and feedback.
NASC Conference
August 6, 2012

2. This project falls under NIJ’s criminal court research portfolio,
and contributes to the line of research pertaining to adjudication and sentencing.
If you visit NIJ’s webpages,
you will find more information on this and other research,
including projects in court operations and case management (e.g., pretrial research),
Specialized or problem-solving courts,
and forensics and other scientific technologies.

3. Looking across offices,
this project falls under the prevention and intervention category
of NIJ’s drugs and crime research portfolio.
As shown here, other lines of research include:
epidemiology, drug markets, market disruption, and forensics.

4. Visiting NIJ’s webpages, you will find additional information
on community and institutional corrections research as well.

5. Examining Kansas SB123: Panel
Don Stemen, Ph.D., University of Loyola, Chicago
Hon. Richard Smith, Sixth Judicial District
Kelly Goodwin, Johnson County Public Defender’s Office
Thomas Drees, Ellis County Attorney’s Office
Audience Questions and Answers
Today’s panelists include:
Dr. Don Stemen at the University of Loyola, Chicago
Judge Dick Smith, Chief Judge in the Sixth Judicial District
Kelly Goodwin of the Johnson County Public Defender’s Office
and Tom Drees of the County Attorney’s Office in Ellis County
The presenters can take short questions such as points of clarification,
but please reserve other questions for the Q&A portion of our agenda.
We have some handouts if you would like more detailed information,
Which you can get from the speakers at the end of our panel.
August 6, 2012
NASC Conference: KS SB123 Panel

6. NIJ Research Dissemination
NIJ website at
National Criminal Justice Reference Center at
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data at
Note that all of the data and report work products from NIJ’s grants
are archived for public access through our contractors at NCJRS and ICPSR,
to encourage further dissemination and secondary data analysis.
You can find an executive summary and the full report for this project at NCJRS.
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August 6, 2012
NASC Conference: KS SB123 Panel

7. Criminal Courts, Drugs and Crime Linda Truitt, Ph. D
Criminal Courts, Drugs and Crime Linda Truitt, Ph.D. Justice Systems Research Division
Please feel free to contact me for more information. Thank you.