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NRTAC delivers specific technical assistance to eligible departments on a wide range of topics that are directly related to conducting high-quality investigations.

This newly developed webpage shares with prosecutors the importance of behavioral health diversion programs and discusses some of the best practices to consider when developing them. 

Made possible by support from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Justice Counts is a consensus-building initiative designed to help policymakers make better decisions with criminal justice data that's more timely, less disjointed, and as useful as possible.

Supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Law Enforcement-Mental Health Collaboration Support Center offers free training, resources, and support to communities wanting to improve their law enforcement and community responses to people with behavioral health conditions or intellectual and developmental disabilities who encounter law enforcement.

Uses a sample of people on supervised release by the U.S. Probation Office to explore the relationship between RMS scores and recidivism.

​​Assesses the gender neutrality of the LS/CMI and explores the relative contributions of risk level, gender, and their interaction to the prediction of recidivism.

​​Tests the validity of the DRAOR and suggests an alteration to the subscale structure of the tool.

​​Cross validates the accuracy of the RMS and RMV compared with the Static-99 and SVR-20 and demonstrates support for the use of RMS and RMV as risk-assessment measures in predicting sexual and nonsexual violent reconvictions.

​​Supports the validity of the SAQ on populations of different races, from different cultures, and convicted of different offenses, and contradicts concerns that the SAQ is susceptible to lying and self-presentation biases.

​​Describes the creation, development, and validation of the CSRA.

Examines the predictive accuracy of the German versions of the STABLE-2000 and STABLE-2007 and demonstrates the moderate to good predictive ability of the STABLE-2007 even—in some cases—after controlling for static risk variables.

​​Demonstrates the concurrent and predictive validity of the DVSI-R and tests whether the levels of validity are sustained independent of demographics and forms of intimate violence.

Examines the reliability and predictive validity of the COMPAS and concludes that the tool demonstrates a predictive power comparable to (and sometimes higher than) similar instruments in the field.

Demonstrates the value of integrating strengths into risk assessment tools by comparing the utility of the SPIn Pre-Screen’s aggregate risk and strength scores in predicting recidivism.

​​Illustrates lessons learned from surveying all 50 states and the District of Columbia on how risk and need assessments are used by criminal justice agencies.

Describes the implications of a study that shows how machine learning algorithms could lead to better criminal justice outcomes for both stakeholders and justice-involved populations.

Describes the development of the MnSCORE as an effort to reduce first-time sexual offending and assesses the tool’s interrater reliability and predictive validity.

Examines the predictive accuracy of the Static-2002 on people convicted of sex offenses in four different countries and supports the use of Static-2002 in applied assessments.

Measures the validity of the LSI-RSV for use with people in Australia with a mental illness and suggests that the tool is a good predictor of recidivism among people with mental disorders but not people with a dual diagnosis.

​​Compares the interrater reliability and predictive validity of the SVR-20 and Static-99 in assessing risk and predicting recidivism for sexual violence.

Summarizes the development and validation of the VPRAI and provides instructions for how to use the tool.

​​Conducts a reliability and validation study of the LSI-R to assess the tool’s usefulness as a component of Pennsylvania’s parole decision making guidelines.

​​This checklist lays out action items for tool selection, validation, assessment process, and structured decision making stages.

​​Identifies a set of predictors that can be used by an agency to identify individuals who will be challenging to supervise, with the goal of developing an instrument for informing immediate, risk-anticipated security and treatment assignments for people under community supervision.

Describes what considerations should be taken into account when deciding upon a risk assessment instrument.

This guide summarizes the principles for using risk assessment instruments in decision-making and provides detailed guidance for each stage of the criminal justice system.

​​Presents the methodology used and results produced in the development of the PCRA, discusses limitations of the PCRA, and assesses the PCRA's predictive validity.

​​Presents findings on the development, validity, and reliability of the MnSTARR and suggests that the MnSTARR is a valid and reliable risk assessment instrument for people in Minnesota, although the tool’s external validity remains unconfirmed.

Examines the use of the Static-99/R in California to suggest that a risk assessment procedure with moderate predictive validity can be implemented in a large jurisdiction without significantly decreasing predictive accuracy.

​​Demonstrates a relationship between HCR-20 and violence in a sample of people incarcerated for serious violent offenses and suggests that further research is needed to assess the tool’s predictive validity for other populations.

​​Examines the START’s predictive validity for multiple types of risk and lends partial support to the use of START in the assessment of risk for certain types of behaviors

​​Evaluates the validity of the VRS in predicting future violence and assessing changes in risk of violence for a group of high-risk males with significant psychopathic traits.

Describes an effort to revise and assess the MnSOST-R, which included adding six new individual items and internally validating the revised tool.