Validated actuarial tools used to identify an individual's risk, need, and strengths to guide decision-making in case management and community supervision processes.

• Welcome to the CJ-TRAK Knowledge Translation Tool Suite

  Date: N.D. 
  The Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!) at George Mason University developed the CJ-TRACK resource. The site provides resources that support using tools linked to risk, needs, and responsivity.

  

• Using Evidence to Reduce Recidivism

  Date: December 2019 
  This video was produced at the 2019 Arizona Judicial Conference describing the research conducted on risk assessments and practices by Dr. Ed Latessa. He describes the outcomes of a reform process that works in his unique way.

• Pretrial Risk Assessment in Practice, Lessons, and Research from Indiana

  Date: July 2020 
  This webinar presents the implementation and validation efforts in the use of the Indiana Risk Assessment System (IRAS) and the Pretrial Assessment Tool (PAT)

• Pretrial Justice Reform Study: Evaluation of Pretrial Justice System Reforms That Use the Public Safety Assessment

  Date: November 2019 
  This 2019 study by MDRC outlines the effects of New Jersey’s criminal justice reform pertaining to pretrial assessments and release decisions after the adoption of the Public Safety Assessment.

• Washington Offender Needs Evaluation: Review and Examination of Reassessments

  Date: December 2021 
  This report reviews the risk assessment for the State of Washington with valuable discussion of validity and fidelity.

• Washington Offender Needs Evaluation (Washington ONE): Evaluating Community Contact Impact

  Date: October 2022 
  This 2020 study from the Washington State Institute for Public Policy provides information regarding contact standards tied to the risk assessments of individuals and the changes in contact over time with relationship to the reassessments of individuals under supervision.

• Advancing Fairness and Transparency: National Guidelines for Post-Conviction Risk and Needs Assessment

  Date: August 2022 
  This introduction to the National Guidelines for Post-Conviction Risk and Needs Assessment identifies the needs addressed by the guidelines.

• Needing More Guidance: Adherence to Offender Needs in Case Plan Objective Journal 2021 Corrections Policy, Practice and Research

  Date: December 2021 
  This 2007 study summarizes the role of the principles in the development of risk assessment instruments and provides risk-needs model for assessments. It also explains why some interventions work and others do not. This may be a fee-based publication.

• ABSTRACT

  The risk-need-responsivity (RNR) model has become a standard formula for developing and assessing offender treatment programs. It has also become increasingly used to guide case management practices. However, less focus has been given to the impact of adhering to these principles within the development of case plan objectives. The current study has two objectives. The first objective is to draw attention to the lack of literature examining the impacts of case plan adherence to RNR on offender outcomes. The second intention is to contribute to this field by examining the impact of case plan adherence to the need principle on recidivism among a sample of halfway house clients. Results show that higher adherence within one need domain, employment/education, was related to significantly lower recidivism. Overall, these findings indicate that adherence to the need principle in offender case plans may improve client outcomes. They also underline a need for more research on the development and impacts of case plan objectives.