This white paper, from The Council of State Governments Justice Center, is written to guide leaders across all branches of government, juvenile justic...
This bulletin from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics presents national trends among state and federal prison inmates from ...
Random forest modeling techniques represent an improvement over the methodologies of traditional risk prediction instruments. Random forests allow for...
This brief video discusses three methods to consider in selecting a comparison group for an outcome study: (1) random assignment, (2) nonequivalent co...
This webinar will review a variety of research-based tools community supervision agencies have adopted over the past years that support shifting parti...
The report from the Urban Institute outlines necessary elements to guide states in defining, collecting, analyzing, and disseminating recidivism data,...
States spend $50 billion a year on corrections, yet four out of ten prisoners wind up back behind bars within three years of release. In this short vi...
Risk assessment instruments figure prominently in current criminal justice reforms, but their use is controversial. The principal concern is that bene...