Justice Management Institute (JMI) held a webinar to offer guidance to sites on how to develop a sustainability plan. The webinar built on the sustainability assessment tool introduced during the workshop to help participants translate the identified threats to sustainability into an actionable...
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Much continues to be learned about how to build consensus and implement strategies that produce results and build a constituency to support them. Whether sites started with no collaborative leadership infrastructure or a developed CJCC, sustainability is often overlooked until the last moments...
In 1991 the Supreme Court, through Administrative Order 1991-4, explicitly recognized that ". . . the management of the flow of cases is properly the responsibility of the judiciary." The Court then reaffirmed its commitment to ". . . an effective, fair, and efficient system of justice." This...
Local jurisdictions across the country face significant challenges in criminal justice. As states, counties, and cities try to come to grips with significant budget deficits, local-level courts and criminal justice agencies are being forced to slash their budgets and furlough or lay off...
The criminal justice system is comprised of various independent agencies and entities that have traditionally operated in a “silo” fashion—focusing predominantly on their individual goals, objectives, and activities.This approach has, in many respects, left the justice system fragmented and in...
Over the past two years, the NRRC, in partnership with Drs. Karl Hanson and Guy Bourgon of Public Safety Canada, has facilitated efforts to examine and improve the standardization of the terminology associated with risk and needs levels and the interpretation and application of risk and needs...
A-Five-Level-Risk-and-Needs-System_Report.pdf
Webcast recording and slide deck from the "Improving Incarceration Policy and Practices in Allegheny County," held September 2018. #Policy #Implementation #AlleghenyCounty
Recording and slide deck from August 2018 presentation: Combating Change Fatigue. Change is stressful. It can cause a feeling of burn-out, uncertainty and have several other impacts. This webinar looks at how to handle the impacts of change fatigue and ways to ensure your staff aren't...
The pretrial population of defendants has significantly increased in the U.S., namely in rural areas. Jails in smaller jurisdictions account for an unusually large contribution to jail population growth. This paper examines possible explanations for this growth and recommends ways to reduce...
2018-04-RR-Rural Pretrial Incarceration-CEJ-Levin Haugen.pdf
This workshop will address current challenges to pretrial assessment, such as ensuring that practitioners use assessment information and that tools don’t exacerbate disparity, and new challenges that will arise from emergent quantitative assessment approaches. Also shared is the latest research...
Making Pretrial Assessment Work through Science and Implementation - May 2018 Network Meeting.pdf
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