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 "PA-PVR" or "Projecting Violent Re-Offending in a Parole Population:  Developing a Real-Time Forecasting Procedure to Inform Parole Decision-Making"
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              This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
Award Information
Awardee
              Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole
Award #
              2009-IJ-CX-0044
Funding Category
              Continuation
Location
                    Harrisburg, PA
Congressional District
              10
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2009
Total funding (to date)
              $279,463
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 09 ORE Crime and Justice Research
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2009, $228,390)
The purpose of this research is to develop and evaluate a forecasting model for use by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (PBPP) in parole supervision. Forecasting procedures will be developed to allow the PBPP to have formal forecasts of the chances that an offender is likely to re-offend violently while under supervision. The forecasting instrument will be incorporated into PBPP decision making and evaluated as to effectiveness in reducing violent recidivism among offenders under parole supervision. Data will be collected from the PBPP for all individuals released on parole in 2007 to comprise a cohort of at least 10,000 individuals released from the Pennsylvania prison system. Forecasting models will be developed and tested using the 2007 cohort using machine/statistical learning procedures. Models will be evaluated for accuracy and then implemented by PBPP in making parole supervision decisions. A process, outcome, and impact evaluation will be conducted on approximately 2,000 individuals released on parole using a regression discontinuity design to estimate the effects of violent crime risk forecasts for a period of 2 years of following release from prison. ca/ncf
Supplemental Award 1 (Fiscal Year 2013, $51,073)
The purpose of this continuation project is to conduct a comprehensive assessment from January 2014 through June 2015 to study whether Violence Forecast case classification is effective in identifying potentially violent offenders being considered for release on parole by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (PBPP). It is an extension of the current grant to predict the risk of re-offending violently in order to increase the Board's ability to detect violent and dangerous offenders for parole decision-making. This evaluation will continue this collaborative relationship with all parties.nca/ncf


  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Machine learning risk assessments in criminal justice settings
                  Criminal justice forecasts of risk: A machine learning approach

  
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