Risk Assessment

In “An Approach to High Lethality Domestic Violence Offenders: The Accountability Court Model,” supervising officers, judges, and attorneys will be exposed to the important elements of risk assessment, monitoring, communication, and community stakeholders in the function of supervising high-lethality offenders in a high-lethality accountability court or on a specialized domestic violence high-risk caseload.

Course objectives include:

Provided advice and guidance to Thurston County, WA on planning for selection or creation of a pretrial risk assessment instrument, and preparing to validate the selected tool. We set an outline for a multi-phase TA engagement with them, and defined a scope of work for the first phase, guiding selection of an existing tool or planning for local development of a new tool.

Working to establish a risk assessment for domestic violence cases and a protocol to supervise defendants in the community in accordance with their risk level

Urban researchers delivered a webinar on risk and needs-based decision making. The focus was foundational concepts for risk management and reduction, targeting an audience of prosecutors.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) National Training and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC) is seeking responses to a request for proposal (RFP) to provide technical assistance (TA) to BJA. Through this RFP, BJA NTTAC will commission a white paper to examine the current use of risk assessment in sentencing at the state and local judiciary levels.