The Equivalence Concept in Criminal Justice Systems

Criminal justice procedures admit process flow diagram representations, which in effect induce equivalences on the data available in public records. Interrogations of the data in the context of such diagrams induce further equivalences. A task for the engineer in the study of criminal justice systems is to develop data display capabilities that reconcile the requirements of these two forms of equivalences. The work reported herein describes all these concepts in detail and illustrates them for jurisdiction in St. Joseph and Marion Counties, State of Indiana.