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.