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Risk Assessment

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Ten Things Risk/Needs Assessment Is Not
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Evidence-based Practices, Risk Assessment June 2023
Building a Risk Tool for Persons Placed on Federal Post-Conviction Supervision for Child Sexual Exploitation Material Offenses: Documenting the Federal System's Past, Current, and Future Efforts
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Post Conviction, Risk Assessment, Sex Offenders June 2023
Low/Moderate Risk Policy Change White Paper
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Risk Assessment, Supervision June 2023
Determining Racial Equity in Pretrial Risk Assessment
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Disparity, Pretrial, Risk Assessment December 2022
Introduction to Special Issue on Addressing Disparity in Community Corrections
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Disparity, Pretrial, Risk Assessment December 2022
A Tribute to Edward J. Latessa: The Change Maker
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Criminal Justice System, Evidence-based Practices, Risk Assessment, Supervision September 2022
Preliminary Validation of the Community Supervision Decision-Making Framework
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Risk Assessment, Supervision September 2022
The Intuitive-Override Model: Nudging Judges Toward Pretrial Risk Assessment Instruments
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Evidence-based Practices, Risk Assessment September 2021
Risk, Need, and Responsivity Supervision in the Pandemic
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Evidence-based Practices, Responsivity, Risk Assessment June 2021
Practitioner Perceptions of the Use and Utility of Pretrial Risk Assessment: Focus Group Analysis
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Pretrial, Risk Assessment December 2020
Rapid Involuntary Client Engagement
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Evidence-based Practices, Implementation, Risk Assessment December 2020
A Rejoinder to Dressel and Farid: New Study Finds Computer Algorithm Is More Accurate Than Humans at Predicting Arrest and as Good as a Group of 20 Lay Experts
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Evidence-based Practices, Risk Assessment September 2018
Removal of Non-scored Items from the Post Conviction Risk Assessment Instrument: An Evaluation of Data-driven Risk Assessment Research within the Federal System
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PCRA, Probation, Risk Assessment September 2017
False Positives, False Negatives, and False Analyses: A Rejoinder to "Machine Bias: There's Software Used Across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. And It's Biased Against Blacks."
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Risk Assessment September 2016
Using a Multi-level Risk Assessment to Inform Case Planning and Risk Management: Implications for Officers
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Evidence-based Practices, PCRA, Risk Assessment September 2016
Enhancing Community Supervision Through the Application of Dynamic Risk Assessment
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Evidence-based Practices, PCRA, Risk Assessment September 2016
Communicating Risk Information at Criminal Sentencing: An Experimental Analysis
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Risk Assessment, Sentencing September 2016
Examining Changes in Offender Risk Characteristics and Recidivism Outcomes: A Research Summary
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Risk Assessment, Supervision September 2016
The Supervision of Low-risk Offenders: How the Low-risk Policy Has Changed Federal Supervision Practices without Compromising Community Safety
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Risk Assessment, Supervision, Evidence-based Practices June 2016
Examining Overrides of Risk Classifications for Offenders on Federal Supervision
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PCRA, Risk Assessment June 2016
Inroads to Reducing Federal Recidivism
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Post Conviction, Risk Assessment, Supervision December 2015
Does the Risk of Recidivism for Supervised Offenders Improve Over Time? Examining Changes in the Dynamic Risk Characteristics for Offenders under Federal Supervision
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PCRA, Risk Assessment September 2014
Using Research to Improve Pretrial Justice and Public Safety: Results from PSA's Risk Assessment Validation Project
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Pretrial, Risk Assessment June 2013
The Re-validation of the Federal Pretrial Services Risk Assessment (PTRA)
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Pretrial, Risk Assessment September 2012
DWI Recidivism: Risk Implications for Community Supervision
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Substance Use, Risk Assessment December 2011