The research team has collected 1200 short screening tool responses from pretrial defendants in NYC. The data will be used to validate (confirm the predictive validity) of the short screening tool.
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Collected 1200 risk-need assessments for the purpose of validating a short risk-need tool.
The research team requested official records data to complete the validation study of the short screener (Phase II) and received approval of the data request.
In the last reporting period, 1200 short assessments were collected. the research team cleaned this data in preparation for matching with criminal history data and analysis. The research team will submit this data to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice services for matching on July 31, 2016.
NYS DCJS provided six month recidivism data were in October 2016; These data were cleaned and coded for analysis; A second download of one year recidivism data are anticipated by February 15, 2017.
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