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Risk assessment

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  • The Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative (2015)

    The Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative, a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John D. and Catherine T.

  • New pre-trial release program relies on risk assessment (2016)

    ""There are people who can be safely managed in the community and the only reason they are not is they don't have any money whatsoever," says Washo

  • Milwaukee Moves Away From Money Bail System (2017)

    "Identifying defendants who are most likely to not return to court for their trials is key to reforming the bail system in Wisconsin and nationwide

  • Ohio Risk Assessment System

    "The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) has long supported supervision and programming practices rooted in the ever-growing bod

  • Statewide Risk Assessment in Juvenile Probation (2014)

    This is the first thorough systematic scan of the U.S.

  • Pretrial risk assessment tool developed for Alaska (2018)

    This article reviews a new pretrial risk assessment tool that calculates whether a defendant is at low, moderate, or high risk for failure to appea

  • Colorado Pretrial Assessment Tool Validation Study Final Report (2020)

    The Colorado Pretrial Assessment Tool (CPAT) is an empirically-based pretrial risk assessment tool developed to inform bond decisions in Colorado.