Author - Eva Ribbers

A meeting being held with five people. One person is in focus, talking to the rest of the group, while the other four people are blurred in the background.
15Sep

Navigating Youth Diversion: Strategies, Pitfalls, and Impact

Diversion helps youth who have offended as it offers tailored interventions for their needs, counters adverse effects of formal processing, and promotes rehabilitation over punishment. In this blog we explore diverse diversion strategies, how these strategies balance rehabilitation and accountability, and the importance of fair decision-making for positive individual and...

By Public Safety, , ,
Read more...
Two people reviewing documents and analyzing sets of data at a table.
24Apr

Do the Level of Service Tools Provide Long-Term Insights?

Predictive validity refers to an assessment's ability to accurately predict an outcome. In the context of risk/needs assessments, accuracy is determined through a validation process. Validation tests if an assessment’s estimated risk/needs score for an individual corresponds to actual behavior or outcomes. In order to test the prediction, meaningful outcome...

By Public Safety, , , ,
Read more...