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The Criminal Justice System in Washington State: Incarceration Rates, Taxpayer Costs, Crime Rates, and Prison Economics
Steve Aos - January 2003
This report reviews basic information on Washington’s criminal justice system and the level of crime in the state. The purpose is to provide policymakers with a “big picture” summary of long-term trends and relationships.
Implementation of Washington's Dangerous Mentally Ill Offender Law: Preliminary Findings
Polly Phipps, Gregg Gagliardi - March 2002
In 1999, the Washington State Legislature enacted Substitute Senate Bill 5011 to improve the process of identifying and providing additional mental health treatment for mentally ill offenders being released from the Department of Corrections who pose a threat to public safety. This report focuses on the implementation of the Act and includes an assessment of how the process of defining, identifying, and selecting "dangerous mentally ill offenders" (DMIOs) has been carried out. The report also describes the treatment and services provided to an early group of released DMIOs.
Washington's Offender Accountability Act: An Evaluation of the Department of Corrections' Risk Management Identification System
Steve Aos - January 2002
In 1999, the Legislature passed the Offender Accountability Act (OAA). Fundamentally, the OAA concerns economics; that is, it affects how the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) spends its budget. It directs DOC to focus more resources on higher-risk offenders and - because state agency budgets must balance - to spend fewer dollars on lower-risk offenders. The Institute was directed by the Legislature to “conduct a study of the effect of the use of community custody…on recidivism and other outcomes.” In this report, we evaluate the implementation of one cornerstone of the OAA: the formal process DOC is using to assess the risk levels of offenders - DOC’s “Risk Management Identification” (RMI) system. This report tests the degree to which the RMI system measures what the Legislature intended. We analyzed the first substantial group of offenders classified by DOC. We found that DOC’s RMI system does a reasonable job of classifying offenders pursuant to the policy directives of the OAA.
The Comparative Costs and Benefits of Programs to Reduce Crime, v 4.0
Steve Aos, Polly Phipps, Robert Barnoski, Roxanne Lieb - May 2001
This report describes the Institute's latest analysis of the costs and benefits of crime prevention and intervention programs. It contains a summary of the findings as well as a detailed technical discussion of the model used to estimate costs and benefits.
Sentencing Reform in the Other Washington
David Boerner, Roxanne Lieb - January 2001
Lessons from Washington State's sentencing reform in the early 1980s are summarized in this 2001 article.
Evaluation Plan for the Offender Accountability Act
Steve Aos, Polly Phipps, Robert Barnoski, Roxanne Lieb - January 2000
The 1999 Washington Legislature passed E2SSB 5421, the Offender Accountability Act, reforming the way adult criminals, under the jurisdiction of the state, are supervised in the community. The legislation directed the Washington State Institute for Public Policy to carry out an evaluation of the Act. The Institute presented the design of the evaluation to the Legislature in January 2000. This report describes the research design the Institute intends to follow during the course of the evaluation of the Offender Accountability Act.
The Comparative Costs and Benefits of Programs to Reduce Crime: A Review of National Research With Implications for Washington State (4 pager)
WSIPP - June 1999
The Comparative Costs and Benefits of Programs to Reduce Crime: A Review of National Research Findings With Implications for Washington State
Steve Aos, Polly Phipps, Robert Barnoski, Roxanne Lieb - May 1999
This report describes the "bottom-line" economics of various programs that try to reduce criminal behavior. We identify the types of programs that can, as well as those that apparently cannot reduce criminal offending in a cost-beneficial way. Among other uses, this information can assist decision-makers in allocating scarce public resources.
Washington State Sex Offender Risk Level Classification—Revised 1999
Various Authors - April 1999
Risk Level Classification Form of the State of Washington, Department of Corrections, Revised 1999.
Research Findings on Adult Corrections' Programs: A Review
Polly Phipps, Kim Korinek, Steve Aos, Roxanne Lieb - January 1999
At the request of the Washington State Department of Corrections, the Institute for Public Policy summarized what is known about the effectiveness of adult correctional programs in reducing recidivism. The report covers programs in seven areas: substance abuse treatment, education, employment, sex offender treatment, cognitive behavioral treatment, life skills training, and intensive supervision. The focus is on fairly recent programs that have been evaluated using a control or comparison group design. Each program area is summarized and individual programs are reviewed in light of their effectiveness in reducing criminal recidivism.
