In the context of promoting “Smarter Solutions for Crime Reduction”, the Illinois Criminal Justice Authority chose InstantAtlas to present a suite of interactive crime data analysis tools in September 2010.

These reports present over 70 indicators at a county level. Annual and 5-year average offense and arrest rates are compared across Illinois for major crime categories. Additional themes allow users to explore data and create maps presenting case filing rates, admissions to the Department of Corrections or to substance abuse treatment programs.

Using the single map report, users can view the data geographically and through time. Data can be filtered by region, judicial circuit or rural/urban county type.

The scatterplot profile allows the exploration of relationships between crime and outcome indicators, exposing major positive and negative data variances from the state norms in individual counties.

See the Illinois Criminal Justice Authority Case Study

The Community Safety Profile will contain information on feelings of safety, levels of crime of different sorts, including anti-social behaviour and disorder and drug-related offences, accidents in homes, at work and on the roads and fire safety.

Community Safety Indicators

The following indicators are provided in the online interactive InstantAtlas profile (at the stated geographic levels).

Crime - (Locality/Service Area)
Anti-Social Behaviour - (Locality/Service Area)
Criminal Damage - (Locality/Service Area)
Place Survey Your Local Area/Anti-Social Behaviour/Local Public Services/Community Safety - (Locality/Service Area)