JIRN Brown Bag: Yearwood Awards Highlight – Statistical/Management Publications

This Brown Bag session will feature presentations from our Idaho and Wyoming SACs discussing their Yearwood Award-winning publications in the Statistical/Management category. Thomas Strauss will discuss Idaho's Sexual Violence in Idaho: Prevalence and Health Impacts. This research brief presents data from the Idaho Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System on the prevalence of sexual violence in […]

JIRN Brown Bag: New York State’s Juvenile Dashboards

New York State Statistical Analysis Center staff will present two Tableau dashboards detailing data from the state’s juvenile justice system. Stefan Ivanov will present Racial and Ethnic Disparities (RED) in the Youth Justice System, which shows the racial and ethnic breakdown of cases at several youth justice processing points. Presenting these data alongside the racial […]

Improving Prison Safety through Data Analytics: Iowa’s Predictive Violence Model

Join Sarah Fineran, Research Director at the Iowa Department of Corrections, as she describes the tool she and colleagues developed and implemented in Iowa to help corrections officials reduce prison violence. The Prison Alert Dashboard helps officials proactively intervene with problematic behavior using a predictive violence model. Sarah will share the impetus behind the tool’s […]