Redefining Your “Day in Court”: Citizen-Centered Court Technology
MJ Cartwright, Court Innovations CEO, and Dunrie Greiling, Matterhorn product/market strategy, join host Sue Humphreys to discuss the evolution of online dispute resolution.
Scaling Up for the Need: A Drug Court Judge’s Story
In the latest episode of Scaling Justice, host Sue Humphreys sits down with Judge Carpenter to hear her story.
Scaling Justice: Lessons in Data Quality
Learn what data quality means for criminal justice practitioners and what each of us can do to make it better.
Palm Beach County Clerk & Comptroller: Eliminating backlogs with in-court processing
A typical week for the Palm Beach County Courts (Florida’s 15th Judicial Circuit) includes hearing almost 2,000 traffic and criminal cases at three separate locations. No matter how hard courtroom personnel worked at processing these cases they were often left with a backlog that took several days to complete.
Wisconsin vs. Loomis: Court Affirms the Use of COMPAS in Sentencing
The Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday, July 13, 2016 that the State of Wisconsin can continue to use COMPAS to aid judges with sentencing decisions. The court concluded that "...if used properly, observing the limitations and cautions set forth herein, a circuit court's consideration of a COMPAS risk assessment at sentencing does not violate a defendant's right to due process".
Rebooting Pretrial Services in San Diego County
San Diego County Pretrial Services has seen it all. From its original multi-agency oversight to present-day operation under our County Sheriff, we’ve overcome significant hurdles; including a time in recent years when lack of funding eliminated pretrial services altogether – compromising community safety and individual wellbeing across the county.
Women’s Pathways to Serious and Habitual Crime
Qualitative approaches for identifying and characterizing women’s pathways to crime are being augmented by quantitative methods. This study applies quantitative taxonomic methods in disaggregating a large sample of women offenders from a prison population to identify diverse pathway prototypes.
Practitioner’s Guide to COMPAS Core
The Practitioner's Guide provides an overview of the COMPAS Core Module in the Northpointe Suite. The Northpointe Suite is an integrated web-based assessment and case management system for criminal justice practitioners.
COMPAS Classification
COMPAS Classification is a management support tool that can [...]
Resource – Northpointe Suite Problem-Solving Courts
Northpointe Specialty Courts is an integrated software solution that manages all participant processing and case/court activities. It’s completely scalable, affordable, and applicable for all types of treatment-focused dockets – from small, single-user systems to statewide implementations – and it easily interfaces with other case management systems for a seamless, easy-to-use solution.