Risk-assessment tools in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: Construction, Diffusion, and UsesChristin, Angele
Risk predictions are nothing new in the criminal justice system. In fact, there have been approximately four generations of risk assessment tools over the past century (Danielle Kehl, Priscilla Guo, and Samuel KesslerAlgorithms in the Criminal Justice System: Assessing the Use of ...
"It has been argued that risk assessment tools could help stem the tide of mass incarceration," Werth said. "However, the evidence suggests that thus far,riskassessment instruments have contributed to expanding the number of people enmeshed in the criminal justice system—encompassing imprisonment, p...
CRIMINAL sentencingRISK assessmentPUNISHMENTMINORITIESThis paper addresses the possible consequences for racial and ethnic disparities of the growing reliance on risk assessment tools for sentencing in juvenile justice systems. These tools consider both legal factors (i.e. criminal history) and personal ...
Risk AssessmentPretrialBailBail ReformEvidence-BasedRecent years have seen a rush toward evidence-based tools in criminal justice. As part of this movement, many jurisdictions have adopted actuarial risk assessmedoi:10.2139/ssrn.3016088Megan T. Stevenson...
actuarial risk prediction toolsrisk assessmentrisk assessment toolsAlthough actuarial risk prediction tools are widely used in the American criminal justice system, the lawyers, judges, and correctional workers who consult thesSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
ConclusionsAlthough risk assessment tools are widely used in clinical and criminal justice settings, their predictive accuracy varies depending on how they are used. They seem to identify low risk individuals with high levels of accuracy, but their use as sole determinants of detention, sentencing, ...
Moreover, there has been limited research on whether use of structured risk assessment tools – START:AV or otherwise – reduces the prevalence of adverse outcomes among justice-involved adolescents. This remains a critical knowledge gap in the youth risk assessment literature. The Risk–Need–...
to permit increased focus on interventions, which is consistent with the conceptualization that criminal offending is a process, (b) they have made as substantial a contribution to the risk assessment enterprise as static variables, and (c) they have a long history in explaining criminal behavior....
The presentresearch evaluated the extent to which two risk assessment tools could predict criminal and breachreconviction in a matched sample of youth (aged 17-19) and adult (aged 20-60) community-supervised offenders: The Dynamic Risk Assessment for Offender Re-entry (DRAOR) and the static ...