Risk Assessment in Adult Criminal Justice Agencies

This Information Session will teach you about the various Risk and Needs Assessment Tools used by criminal justice agencies in the District of Columbia.

Risk and Needs Assessment Tools are a form of data-driven actuarial tools that can assist with decision-making around supervision, management, and treatment of justice-involved populations. These tools input a variety of factors including static factors like: age, gender, past criminal history, and dynamic factors like: employment status, drug use, or living situations and produce a risk or needs score.

The scores produced are used to make determinations about the risk of recidivism, the risk of not appearing in court, and/or the level of need and case management for a justice involved person. In the Washington, D.C. criminal justice system, multiple agencies deploy different Risk Assessment Tools to evaluate the populations they oversee.

Host or Publisher The Criminal Justice Coordinating Council