Risk assessment instruments figure prominently in current criminal justice reforms, but their use is controversial. The principal concern is that bene...
This brief explores children’s behaviors when a father is incarcerated and when the father is released, examining whether the negative child outcomes ...
By Darian Hanrahan
According to a 2014 meta-analysis by the RAND Corporation, adults who participated in correctional education programs were shown t...
This publication from the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council (SPAC) examines data on recidivism in the state of Illinois. The brief updates t...
This resource hub from the Justice Research and Statistics Association contains the abstracts of reports produced by state Statistical Analysis Center...
Any comprehensive program to change American prison policy must focus to a significant degree on prison-release discretion, where it exists, and its r...
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...