BSCC-PPIC Multi-County Realignment Study Association for Criminal Justice Research-CA October 24, 2013 Sonya Tafoya, Ryken Grattet, Mia Bird Purpose of Multi-County Study Collaborate with the BSCC to develop an individuallevel database for realigned offenders Study effectiveness of county policies and practices Provide data for broad range of research and reporting efforts by: – Counties – State agencies – Academic researchers Project Endorsement and Participation Endorsed by: • California State Association of Counties • County Administrative Officers Association of California • California State Sheriff’s Association • Chief Probation Officers of California • CDCR and DOJ Partially Funded by: Eleven California Counties • National Institute of Justice 3 Data and Data Sources Recidivism •Arrests, Violations •Convictions •Returns DOJ CI&I Unique ID Services & Sanctions •Alternative Sanctions •Treatment Counties Background •Risk & Needs •Offending history Counties CDCR How do we know what works? ID Controls Intervention Outcome Offender County Demographics Risk Needs Service Recidivism Andre X 32, M, White High SA Y Y Sebastian Y 22, M, Asian High SA Y Y Juan X 45, M, Black High SA N N Steve Z 34, M, White Low Educ N N Erica X 27, F, Latino Moderate MH Y N What questions can be answered with such data? Is our recidivism rate (however best defined) going up or down? Do the services we refer people to decrease their recidivism? Is flash incarceration leading to behavior change? Do offenders given split sentences do better, worse, or the same as offenders given straight sentences? Do offenders placed on electronic monitoring do better, worse, or the same as offenders given straight or split sentences? Do we have the right set of service and program options in place? Are their promising evidence based practices being used elsewhere that could benefit our county? 6 Progress and Current Status Collaboration established with BSCC, CDCR, DOJ State-level endorsements of project County recruitment Identifying county needs for full participation Data collection begins January 2014 (@ 6 month intervals) 7 Contact Sonya Tafoya Research Associate Public Policy Institute of California tafoya@ppic.org (415) 291-4470 Ryken Grattet Research Fellow Public Policy Institute of California grattet@ppic.org (916) 440-1123 Mia Bird Research Fellow Public Policy Institute of California bird@ppic.org (415) 291-4471 8