Research Reports

In 1997 the State of Utah initiated an ambitious early intervention program that uniquely combined sentencing reform and graduated sanctions in an...

The following analysis of all DUI offenses between January 1990 and November 2000 was completed at the request of the Governor’s DUI Taskforce .

The call came forth to “end welfare as we know it,” and so we have. This study of Utah’s long-term welfare families represents a commitment by the Utah Department of Workforce Services (DWS) to understand and document the situations of families as they reach the mandatory three-year lifetime limit for receipt of cash assistance. It also represents a snapshot of a historic time of change. This study reflects transitions at both societal and individual levels.

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent of overrepresentation (disproportionality) of juvenile minorities in the Utah Juvenile Justice...

The Grade Court program in San Juan County, New Mexico was designed to address the relationship between academic failure and delinquency. Youth...