Alaska Justice Forum looks at evidence-based practices, including new pretrial risk assessment tool, and new 8-year recidivism rate study

The 2018 Winter edition of the Alaska Justice Forum looks at  evidence-based practices in Alaska’s criminal justice system including the development of a new pretrial risk assessment tool and benefit to cost analysis of adult criminal justice programs.

The benefit cost analysis is part of the Alaska Justice Information Center’s (AJiC) Alaska Results First Analysis. Alaska Results First has yielded wide ranging information about Alaska’s evidence-based programs as well as a groundbreaking eight-year recidivism rate study.

Also in the Winter 2018 edition you’ll find the most recent AJiC Fact Sheet presenting data on motor vehicle theft arrests reported in Alaska from 1986 to 2016.

Articles in the 2018 Winter edition include:

• Editor’s note: Alaska’s evidence-based investment
• Pretrial risk assessment tool developed for Alaska
• Advantages and limitations of new pretrial risk assessment tool, video with Geri Fox, Director of the Alaska Department of Corrections Pretrial Enforcement Division and Alaska Justice Forum Editor Pamela Cravez (web only)
• Benefit vs. cost of Alaska criminal justice programs
• Expanded view of recidivism in Alaska
• Alaska Justice Information Center Fact Sheet: Motor Vehicle Theft Arrests reported in Alaska from 1986-2016 (web only)

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The Alaska Justice Forum is a publication of the UAA Justice Center.