Risk & Needs Assessments

& Needs Assessments : What Defenders and Chief Defenders Need to Know July 2015 PAGE3 National Legal Aid & Defender AssociationRisk & Needs Assessments : What Defenders and Chief Defenders Need to Know Risk & Needs Assessments : What Defenders and Chief Defenders Need to KnowI. IntroductionA significant movement in criminal justice is the use of actuarial risk Assessments and Needs Assessments to make decisions about persons at various stages of the criminal justice system. This report provides basic information about these types of Assessments and summarizes the potential challenges and opportunities that these Assessments carry for defenders (both for individual attorneys and for chief defenders).The risk and Needs Assessments employed at different decision points in the criminal process focus on different salient factors. A pretrial risk assessment seeks to measure the likelihood that a person will fail to appear for court or commit an offense while officers may use a risk assessment to determine whether to arrest or issue a citation.

P A G E 4 National Legal Aid & Defender Association Ris eed ssessmen Wha efender n efender ee now An effective assessment allows justice officials to make evidence-based, informed decisions regarding

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