DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38013
title: Building Tribal-Researcher Capacity to Inform Data-Driven Practices, Technology, and Tribal Justice, United States, 2019
title: Archival Version

description: The Center for Court Innovation, in partnership with independent consultants from the public defender's office of certain tribes, conducted a comprehensive survey of tribal justice system stakeholders, focused on the existing use of risk-needs assessments and similar tools, and existing data collection/technology used by tribal jurisdictions around the country. The survey results create a comprehensive portrait of tribal court system risk and need assessment, data collection, management, and challenges reported by those directly involved in managing and working with people in the system.
description: The research team had two main goals for this survey. First, in collaboration with multiple tribes, create a culturally appropriate client assessment tool to learn about assets and needs of tribal courts. Second, to develop solutions for tracking criminal justice data and aiding communication between agencies.
description: Main sections of the survey included questions on: Jurisdiction - who and where does agency serve Agency Characteristics - roles within jurisdiction, agency size, what demographic gets information collected on clients Client Assessment Tools - types of screeners and assessments, when and how are assessments used and on whom Technology - access, use, and reliability Tracking - how and what information gets tracked Communication - methods and frequency of communication with external stakeholders, within agency, and with clients Reporting - how often and with whom
description: Not Applicable
description: Response Rates: The survey was completed by 67 justice system representatives from 36 tribes from all regions in the country. This represents a response rate of about 10.5% of all tribal courts in the country.
description: Presence of Common Scales: Not Applicable
description: The target population for the survey included judges, court clerks and coordinators, prosecutors and defense providers, law enforcement, and court-affiliated service providers within tribal courts. The initial list of tribal courts for recruitment was obtained from the publicly available list of tribal courts managed by the Tribal Law and Policy Institute. This list provides contact information for 343 tribal courts--not all of whom would be eligible for the survey since the researchers were primarily interested in criminal, civil or specialized courts. Survey recruitment was two-pronged: (1) initial indirect recruitment; (2) targeted follow-up recruitment for those who did not respond to initial requests. For initial indirect recruitment, respondents were recruited through existing relationships with external tribal practitioners; presentations by members of the Tribal Justice Exchange team at annual conferences, outreach through online groups, listservs, and contacts and individual outreach by the tribal consultants.
description: Datasets: DS1: Building Tribal-Researcher Capacity to Inform Data-Driven Practices, Technology, and Tribal Justice, United States, 2019
description: Staff and clients from within the Tribal court system. Smallest Geographic Unit: Other
description: telephone interview; web-based surveyThe Principal Investigator did not include in the data file demographic information about the person completing the survey. Information that could be used to identify the tribe or location of the respondent has been removed. This includes the name of the tribe, size and geography of the tribal area, unique characteristics of the tribal program, and information about specific data management systems used which might be used to pinpoint the tribal respondents.