Improving Evidence Communication: Updating NIJ’s CrimeSolutions

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) CrimeSolutions is a web-based clearinghouse designed to provide practitioners and policymakers with evidence-based information to make effective safety and justice decisions and increase the odds those decisions will yield the desired results. After more than a decade of rating programs and practices, NIJ launched a multi-pronged effort to assess CrimeSolutions for its content, face validity, usability, and utility to the field and made the most significant revision to the program scoring instrument since inception by moving towards rating programs by outcomes. This panel will describe the changes made to the CrimeSolutions rating methods and their implications, what has been learned about improving evidence communication, and additional recommendations enhancing the repository.

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 50. Challenging Criminal Justice Policies

Individual Presentations

• The Impact and Implications of Rating Programs by Outcome on CrimeSolutions - Rachel Keller, Development Services Group, Inc.

• Methods Issues in CrimeSolutions Rating Programs by Outcome - Steve Gies, Development Services Group, Inc.; Eoin Healy, GTTAC, Development Services Group, Inc.

• Enhancing Crime Solutions: What Have Learned and What are the Implications - Michelle Rippy, California State University, East Bay / National Institute of Justice

Chairs

• Kaitlyn Sill, National Institute of Justice

• Angela Moore, National Institute of Justice

Discussant

• Thomas Abt, University of Maryland

Organized by a Division or external group?

National Institute of Justice