From this report: “A significant movement in criminal justice is the use of actuarial risk assessments and needs assessments to make decisions about persons at various stages of the criminal justice system. This report provides basic information about these types of assessments and summarizes the potential challenges and opportunities that these assessments carry for defenders (both for individual attorneys and for chief defenders).”
Report
Risk & Needs Assessments: What Defenders and Chief Defenders Need to Know
Increasing Analytics Capacity
New toolkit for defenders on the technology, people, and politics of 21st century data systems.
NLADA Mutual Insurance Co., RRG
