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 […]

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 […]