• COMPAS Software Suite Demo

Publications & Documentation

Publications

 COMPAS Risk and Needs Assessment

• The Taxonomic Challenge to General Theories of Delinquency: Linking Taxonomy Development to Delinquency Theory
• Towards an Explanatory Taxonomy of Adolescent Delinquents: Identifying Several Social-Psychological Profiles
• The Taxonomic Challenge to General Theories of Delinquency: Linking Taxonomy Development to Delinquency Theory
• Institutional Assessment and Classification of Women Offenders: From Robust Beauty to Person-Centered Assessment
• Towards Explanatory Taxonomy of Adolescent Delinquents - Journal of Quantitative Criminology

 Inmate Classification

• Implementing Organizational Change in Criminal Justice: Some Lessons from Jail Classification Systems
• Enhancing Prison Classification Systems: The Emerging Role of Management Information Systems
• Classification Implementation Manual for Smaller Jails
• Designing and Selecting Automated Jail Management and Classification Information Systems
• Inmate Classification and Direct Supervision Jails
• Jail Classification: Improving Link to Intermediate Sanctions
• The Importance of Inmate Classification in Small Jails
• The Michigan Classification Project

Practice

• Seven Lessons Learned in Michigan
• Unraveling Women's Pathways to Serious Crime: New Findings and Links to Prior Feminist Pathways (Posted with permission of the American Probation and Parole Association. Article first appeared in Perspectives, vol. 34, n.2 Spring 2010.)
• Evidence-Based Practices: What's All the Fuss About?
• A Guidebook to System Innovation: Lessons and Tools from the Youth Service Improvement Initiative
• Lessons Learned: Evidence-Based Practices in the Real World (Posted with permission of the American Probation and Parole Association. Article first appeared in Perspectives, vol. 33, n.1 Winter 2009.)
• California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation - Rehabilitation News - Spring 2009
• Guidelines for Implementing an Objective Classification System in Jails

Northpointe Research Documents

• Explanatory Diversity Among Female Delinquents: Examining Taxonomic Heterogeneity
• Creating Risk - Scores in Very Imbalanced Datasets: Predicting Extremely Violent Crime Among Criminal Offenders Following Release From Prison 

  Book chapter in "Rare Association Rule Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Technologies for Infrequent and Critical Event detection" (Yun Sing Koh & Nathan Rountree, Eds.), IGI Global Publishing, ISBN 978-1605667546 

• A Need/Risk Explanatory Classification of Female Prisoners Incorporating Gender-Neutral and Gender-Responsive Factors
• Research Synthesis: Reliability and Validity of COMPAS
• Institutional Assessment and Classification of Women Offenders
• California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) Pilot Study Report

White Papers

• Evidence-Based Practice: Implementing the COMPAS Assessment System
• A response to: "Assessment of Evidence on the Quality of COMPAS"
• Commentary on NCCD - "A Question of Evidence: A Critique of Risk Assessment Models Used in the Justice System"
• Patient-Centered Care and Service Delivery Models: Evidenced-Based Practices in Assessment & Classification - Prepared for the California Prison Health Care Facilities
• Data Driving Policy and Planning Decisions
• Evidence-Based Practice: Where Art and Science Meet
• Letting Outcomes Drive Decisions: Selecting New Tools to Support Evidence-Based Practice
• Setting the Stage for Success in Implementing New Practices
  

Technical Documents

• Northpointe Suite: Web Services Architecture
• Web COMPAS Minimum Hosting Requirements
• Selected COMPAS Questions Posed by Inquiring Agencies
• Northpointe Suite IT - Application Requirements
• Northpointe Suite Architecture Overview

The Pew Center on the States

• Prison Count 2010 - State Population Declines for the First Time in 38 Years
  

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