Objectives: Many agencies use risk assessment instruments to guide decisions about
pretrial detention, postconviction incarceration, and release from custody. Although some …

Abstract Objectives: The Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole has begun using
machine learning forecasts to help inform parole release decisions. In this paper, we …

Understanding and Improving Prisoner Reentry Outcomes Prisoner Reentry is an engaging
and comprehensive examination of prisoner reentry and how to improve public safety, well …

Justice reinvestment was introduced in the early 2000s as a means to respond to the
massive growth in incarceration in the United States that had occurred during the past three …

Almost everyone agrees--Right on Crime, the ACLU, Koch Industries, George Soros's Open
Society Foundation, the editorial boards of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal …

In The Myth of Mob Rule, Lisa Miller compares three countries--the US, the UK, and the
Netherlands--and explores when and with what consequences crime becomes a politically …

Policy design and public management should be tightly connected, so implemented public
policies achieve intended outcomes. Yet policy designers often pursue their activities with …

After decades of steady expansion, state prison populations declined in recent years for the
first time since 1972. Though the size of the decrease was small, it masks substantial state …

Community corrections in the twenty-first century faces three challenges: how to be an
alternative to imprisonment, how to be a conduit for reducing recidivism, and how to do less …

The question has been posed whether current developments in American penal policy
toward reducing prison populations and sentences for low level, nonviolent offenses might …