Any conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the U.S. Census Bureau.

All results were approved for release by the Disclosure Review Board of the U.S. Census Bureau (Data Management

System number: P-7500378, Disclosure Review Board (DRB) approval numbers: CBDRB-FY23-0516, 9/29/2023).

CJARS Justice Outcomes Explorer (JOE)

Jordan Papp

University of Michigan

October 2023

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Overview of JOE

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Goals of JOE

- Greater transparency and accountability for the U.S. justice system

- Demonstrate scope of linked CJARS + Census Bureau data

- Make aggregate statistics available without barriers to access

- Give partner agencies an unprecedented view of their own performance

- Provide a powerful tool for asking new questions about the criminal justice system

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Use Cases for JOE

- Criminal justice administrators interested in comparing themselves to other jurisdictions

- The general public interested in gaining a better understanding about the impact of the

justice system

- Researchers who only need access to aggregate statistics or are developing FSRDC

proposals

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Available Statistics on JOE

- Caseload characteristics

- Per capita rates (e.g., incarceration rates)

- Case outcomes (e.g., sentencing)

- Follow-up statistics

- Recidivism

- Health outcomes: Medicaid, Medicare, SSI take-up, mortality

- Economic outcomes: employment status, earnings, HUD take-up

- Breakdowns of statistics

- State, commuting zone, and county geographies

- Follow-up periods (e.g., 1 year recidivism)

- Cohorts (e.g., people released from prison in 2010)

- Two-way demographic combinations of sex, race, and age group, plus criminal history and

offense type

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Stats Production

- CJARS data serves as the basis for production of caseload statistics

- Based on University of Michigan data not Title 13 data

- CJARS data is linked at Census via Protected Identification Key (PIK) to:

- IRS W-2 information returns

- SSA SSI records

- HUD rental housing data

- Medicaid enrollment data

- Medicare enrollment data

- Census Numident

- Census BestRace files

- Aggregation to reduce disclosure risk (e.g., geographic)

- Weighting of estimates to account for record linkage selection

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Data Quality Review

- Automation built in to flag potentially

problematic statistics

- Human review of caseload statistics via

interactive dashboard

- Propagate results of caseload review to

dependent statistics

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JOE Interface

- Multiple visualization modalities

- Choropleth maps

- Scatter plots integrating

contextual data (e.g.,

employment rate, health

index)

- Time series

- Tabular information

- Direct export of data visuals for

convenient use

- Bulk download of statistical

database

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JOE Demonstration

To JOE!

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