Reserach Projects at HLS' A2J Lab

Under Jim Greiner's direction, work at HLS' Access to Justice Lab (previously described here) is underway. One recent courthouse project in Dane County, WI, involves an evaluation of that court's Public Safety Assessment ("PSA"). As this post notes, "Criminal process in this jurisdiction now includes additional, scientifically based information in a randomly selected subset of cases to inform pre-disposition release decisions. The judicial official–known here as a Commissioner–receives risk scores and a recommendation for release through the PSA and its static criminal history inputs to consider in reaching those decisions." (The A2J link also includes an informative video.)