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The current National Institute of Justice (NIJ) report complies with the First Step Act’s requirement to review, validate, and release public...
Within the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) collects criminal history data ...
According to recently conducted an empirical analysis of record clearing that they believe has made important inroads into what is known about expunge...
The Data Analytic Recidivism Tool (DART) helps answer questions about recidivism in New York City, such as: Are people that commit a certain...
This bulletin from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics presents national trends among state and federal prison inmates from ...
By The Council of State Governments Justice Center Staff It’s widely known that jails and prisons can be violent and stressful places to work. But ...
The past several years have seen a surge of interest in using risk assessment in criminal sentencing, both to reduce recidivism and to reduce prison p...
This policy brief from the Sentencing Project describes key state legislation and reforms from 2018 that were designed to reduce the scale of incarcer...
This resource hub from the Justice Research and Statistics Association contains the abstracts of reports produced by state Statistical Analysis Center...
Risk assessment instruments figure prominently in current criminal justice reforms, but their use is controversial. The principal concern is that bene...