NCJ Number
155272
Date Published
1993
Length
61 pages
Annotation
The Texas Narcotics Control Program (TNCP), established in 1987, provides funding and administrative support to multijurisdictional drug abuse task forces, prosecution units, and drug adjudication impact courts.
Abstract
The Texas Criminal Justice Policy Council (CJPC) collects case summaries for all arrests made by TNCP task forces. Data are compiled using a three-part form that contains questions on the the suspect's prior criminal history and arrest, case filing, court disposition, and sentencing. After a suspect has been arrested by a TNCP drug control program, the arrest segment of the data element form is completed and the top sheet is submitted to the CJPC where the information is entered into the Offender- Based Tracking System. Once the defendant has been disposed by the courts, the TNCP drug control program completes the remaining segment of the form and submits the second sheet to the CJPC. The TNCP drug control program keeps the third sheet for internal use. Case summary data are reflected in graphs and statistics that cover arrests, convictions, dispositions, and sentences for drug sales, possession, cultivation, and manufacture; the focus is on cocaine and marijuana. An appendix contains the data element form.