Risk assessment instruments figure prominently in current criminal justice reforms, but their use is controversial. The principal concern is that bene...
The report from the Urban Institute outlines necessary elements to guide states in defining, collecting, analyzing, and disseminating recidivism data,...
This is the fourth in a series of posts on aspects of successful reentry. Each post will include curated resources related to the featured reentry top...
This report from the Smart Decarceration Initiative, based at the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, offers strategi...
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...
The National Reentry Resource Center and the CSG Justice Center released a new edition of Reentry Matters: Strategies and Successes of Second Chance A...
This publication from the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council (SPAC) examines data on recidivism in the state of Illinois. The brief updates t...
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...