Community engagement in prosecution

• In Event: Prosecutorial Performance Indicators: Advancements in data and research

Abstract

The role of the community becomes increasingly important as more prosecutors' offices adopt transparency measures through public facing dashboards. Dashboards should ensure that community concerns are heard as well as quantified through data. Before policy changes are implemented, the community should be consulted to reduce the likelihood of disparate outcomes. This presentation will examine the work in three jurisdictions across the nation. It will consider various models of community engagement for the purposes of bringing the community, prosecutors, and researchers together for more robust feedback around what is working locally in the criminal justice system, and to identify what changes are needed.

Author

• Melba Pearson, Florida International University