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 toolkit from the Vera Institute of Justice provides resources and a guide on cost-benefit analysis (CBA), featuring several examples from the cri...
This event features a screening of four, 2-minute animated videos on, why evaluation matters, improving evaluation readiness, assessing and improving ...
This webinar will review a variety of research-based tools community supervision agencies have adopted over the past years that support shifting parti...
Risk assessment instruments figure prominently in current criminal justice reforms, but their use is controversial. The principal concern is that bene...
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...
This brief video discusses three methods to consider in selecting a comparison group for an outcome study: (1) random assignment, (2) nonequivalent co...