Research Briefs & Reports
The Department’s Criminal Justice Policy Research Institute provides research, briefs, and reports to highlight key findings and policy issues from research projects the Institute has supported.
Impacts of Successive Drug Legislation Shifts: Qualitative Observations from Oregon Law Enforcement
Community Attitudes Regarding Public Safety in Bend, Oregon
Dazed and Confused: Police Experiences Enforcing Oregon’s New Marijuana Laws
Assessing the Impact of Pre-Adjudication Assessment Approaches on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Oregon
Mental Health Involvement in Police and Fire Calls for Service
Effect of Prison Length of Stay in Oregon
Effect of Pretrial Detention in Oregon
Portland’s Neighborhood Involvement Locations Project (NI-Loc)
Portland Community and Police Contact Survey
A survey of over 4,700 Portland residents. The survey addresses concerns raised by the U.S. Department of Justice settlement agreement with the Portland Police Bureau (survey ran from July to October 2013)
Portland Criminal Justice Survey
A survey of 2,461 Portland residents representing 40 neighborhood areas. Addresses and neighborhoods were randomly chosen to receive a mail-in survey (mailing started May 7 to June 4, 2012 by CJPRI staff)
Oregon Crime and Criminal Justice Policy Survey
Statewide telephone survey of 1,569 Oregonian adults using random sampling and African American and Hispanic oversampling (conducted June 15- July 2010 by PSU's Survey Research Laboratory).