The 2012 LOSS (Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors) Conference will be held May 31 - June 1, 2012 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Dr. Frank Campbell, a leading expert in Suicidology along with other experts, will share the lessons learned in years of helping survivors of suicide, how sudden traumatic loss impacts survivors and grief through the different developmental stages.
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MOREThis project is an evaluation of a pilot project aimed at reducing failure to appear in court for a defendant’s misdemeanor hearing. The rate at which criminal defendants fail to appear in court is as high as 25-30%, depending on the jurisdiction and type of offense. Failure to appear increases workloads and expenditures for the courts and law enforcement and can also lead to increased penalties, including pre- or post-trial incarceration and increased fines for what started out as a minor offense. Significantly, failure to appear disproportionately impacts racial and ethnic minorities.
Some jurisdictions have reduced failures to appear by using reminders to defendants to appear in court. Reminder programs, however, have not been systematically evaluated or studied based on social scientific theory and methodology. This project will pilot several types of reminder interventions in several of Nebraska's counties to evaluate which is the most effective. Reducing failure-to-appear rates will result in considerable system efficiencies and cost savings. Moreover, reducing failure-to-appear rates in racial and ethnic minority groups can play a small yet important role in reducing the overrepresentation of minorities in the corrections system.
Key Partners
Administrative Office of the Courts
Nebraska Minority Justice Committee
Funding
United States National Institute of Justice
Name: Joseph Hamm
E-mail: jhamm2@nebraska.edu
Name: Mitch Herian
E-mail: mnherian@nebraska.edu
Phone: (402) 472-2520
Name: Nicole Hutsell
E-mail: nhutsell@nebraska.edu
Phone: (402) 472-2634
Name: Elizabeth Neeley
E-mail: lneeley@nebar.com
Phone: (402) 475-7091
Name: Lisa Pytlik Zillig
E-mail: lpytlikz@nebraska.edu
Phone: (402) 472-6877
Name: Alan Tomkins
E-mail: atomkins@nebraska.edu
Phone: (402) 472-5688
