NIJ Recidivism Forecasting Challenge Winner: Team Klus
2021-nij-rec-ch-0007
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2021
$20,000
Recidivism
NIJ Recidivism Forecasting Challenge Winner: Team PASDA
2021-nij-rec-ch-0023
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2021
$30,000
NIJ Recidivism Forecasting Challenge Winner: Team Hanson
2021-nij-rec-ch-0002
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2021
$15,000
NIJ Recidivism Forecasting Challenge Winner: Team MNLB
2021-nij-rec-ch-0018
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2021
$3,000
NIJ Recidivism Forecasting Challenge Winner: Team CategOracles
2021-nij-rec-ch-0013
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2021
$6,000
NIJ Recidivism Forecasting Challenge Winner: Team JianyeGe
2021-nij-rec-ch-0008
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2021
$1,000
NIJ Recidivism Forecasting Challenge Winner: Team Data Robot
2021-nij-rec-ch-0024
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2021
$2,000
NIJ Recidivism Forecasting Challenge Winner: Team Idle Speculation
2021-nij-rec-ch-0003
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2021
$146,000
NIJ Recidivism Forecasting Challenge Winner: Team CrimeFree
2021-nij-rec-ch-0019
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2021
$75,000
Desistance-Focused Criminal Justice Practice
Date Published
October 2021
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ
Desistance From Crime: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice
Date Published
November 2021
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ
Preventing Sexual Violence: Can Examination of Offense Location Inform
Date Published
June 2011
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Legislation/Policy Analysis
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Community Court Grows in Brooklyn: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Red Hook Community Justice Center, Final Report
Date Published
November 2013
Publication Type
Program/Project Evaluation
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Connecting the Dots: Identifying Suspected Serial Sexual Offenders Through Forensic DNA Evidence.
Date Published
2020
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Recidivism Forecasting Challenge: Official Results
NIJ's Recidivism Forecasting Challenge aims to improve the ability to forecast recidivism using person- and place-based variables with the goal of improving outcomes for those serving a community supervision sentence. We are pleased to post official results below in Student, Small Team, Large Team, and Accounting...
Recidivism of State Prisoners (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
BJS uses criminal history records to study the number and types of crimes committed by persons incarcerated in state prisons both prior to and following their release. The first study tracked a sample of persons incarcerated in state prisons released in 11 states in 1983, and the second study followed a sample of persons incarcerated in state prisons released in 15 states in 1994. Both...
Recidivism Survey of Felons on Probation (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
The one-time survey provided national estimates of the recidivism rate of felons sentenced to probation in selected years. In the survey, samples of convicted felons placed on probation were tracked for three years, and data were compiled on the percentage of them who were are rearrested, reconvicted, or reimprisoned for new crimes within the three-year follow-up period. The various recidivism measures were based on official...
Crime and Desistance: Probing How Probationers' Thoughts on Crime May Inform Their Conduct
Date Published
July 2021
Agencies
NIJ
Reentry Research at NIJ: Providing Robust Evidence for High-Stakes Decision-Making
Date Published
April 2022
Agencies
NIJ
NIJ Recidivism Forecasting Challenge Webinar Transcript
Challenge has closed
Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry. Winners will be notified by August 16, 2021, and posted online.
Winners are to submit paper outlining the variables that were tested, indicating which were of statistical significance and which were not, by September 17, 2021.
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DARYL FOX: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to today's webinar. NIJ's Recidivism Forecasting Challenge, hosted...
Alternatives to Traditional School Discipline - Breakout Session, NIJ Virtual Conference on School Safety
February 2021
On February 16-18, 2021, the National Institute of Justice hosted the Virtual Conference on School Safety: Bridging Research to Practice to Safeguard Our Schools. This video includes the following presentations:
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NIJ Recidivism Forecasting Challenge
Event Dates
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Eastern
Location
Online
Event Type
Webinar
Registration Status
Not Required
Recidivism Forecasting Challenge
Putting the results into context
Read the paper The NIJ Recidivism Forecasting Challenge: Contextualizing the Results that contextualizes how winners’ forecasts performed in terms of accuracy and fairness, discusses the metrics used to judge entries, and provides an overview of the Challenge.
Challenge winners were required to submit research papers that describes which variables did and did not matter to the final forecasting model, and when...