The COMPAS system is a computerized data base and analysis system for criminal justice practitioners who must make decisions regarding the placement, supervision and case-management of offenders. COMPAS is used through probation, institutions, parole, and community corrections across the country.

COMPAS is a statistically based risk assessment specifically designed to assess key risk and needs factors in correctional populations and to provide decision-support for justice professionals when placing offenders into the community. It aims to achieve this by providing valid measurement and succinct organization of the relevant risk/need dimensions. A further goal of COMPAS is to help practitioners design case-management support systems for offenders in community placements.

In crowded criminal justice systems brevity, efficiency, ease of administration and the clear organization of key risk/needs data are critical. COMPAS aims to optimize these practical factors. We acknowledge the trade-off between comprehensive coverage of key risk and criminogenic factors on the one hand, and brevity and practicality on the other. COMPAS deals with this trade-off by providing a comprehensive set of key risk factors, that can be customized so that an agency can selectively trim down the set of risk/need factors to achieve the ease of use, brevity and focus that are critical in corrections.

Adult COMPAS offers a complete database that allows the user to track case planning, placement outcomes, offender profiles, program participation, caseload termination reasons and more. Other key features of the Adult COMPAS instrument are:

• Measures Critical Risk and Need Areas
• Integrated Case Planning and Outcomes Tracking
• Built-in Custom Report Generator
• Regression, Typology and Narrative Reports
• Fully Automated and Scalable
• Separate Male and Female Norms
• Local Norming
• User Configurable

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