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4b: Equipping Stakeholders to Apply Research Evidence Navigating the Roadmap Activity 4: Understand and have the capacity to implement evidence-based practices. Introduction A justice system that seeks to use evidence to guide decisions must have as its foundation a group of professionals (both policymakers and practitioners) who share a core base of knowledge about evidence-based […]

4a: Understanding Your Agency: Conducting an EBP Knowledge Survey Navigating the Roadmap Activity 4: Understand and have the capacity to implement evidence-based practices. Introduction For a jurisdiction to be truly evidence-based, the professionals managing its justice system agencies1—and those working directly with the defendants and offenders in that system—should all share a common base of […]

Activity 4: Understand and have the capacity to implement evidence-based practices For evidence-based decision making and practices to take hold, policymakers and professionals across the system must What Do We Mean By “Research Evidence”? In the justice system, the term “evidence” is used in a variety of ways. It can refer to items collected at […]

3e: Prioritizing Your Team’s Targets for Change Navigating the Roadmap Activity 3: Understand current practice within each agency and across the system. Introduction Considering the information collected through various policy and practice analyses is no easy feat. It is more than likely that your analyses will surface a variety of possible areas of improvement. This […]

3d: Gathering Baseline Data Navigating the Roadmap Activity 3: Understand current practice within each agency/across the system. Introduction The first step in any change initiative is deciding what you intend to change. As part of the EBDM initiative and designing the system-level logic model, policy teams should have already made some decisions about goals and […]

3c: Creating a Resource Inventory Navigating the Roadmap Activity 3: Understand current practice within each agency and across the system. Introduction In addition to developing a system map and gathering information about the defendants/offenders in your system, conducting an assessment of the various services and resources available—within the criminal justice system, as well as from […]

3b: Conducting a Policy and Practice Analysis Navigating the Roadmap Activity 3: Understand current practice within each agency and across the system. Introduction The development of a “system map” is a first step in developing a common understanding of how the criminal justice process “works” in a jurisdiction. When completed, the system map reflects the […]

3a: Developing a System Map Navigating the Roadmap Activity 3: Understand current practice within each agency and across the system. Introduction One of the most fundamental ways to develop an understanding of a jurisdiction’s justice system is to develop a “system map.” Similar to an architectural diagram, a system map depicts the steps in the […]

Activity 3: Understand current practice within each agency and across the system Developing a vision of a justice system that results in harm and risk reduction—and engaging professionals and the larger community in that process—is one thing; building such a system is quite another. Such work begins with a clear understanding of how the justice […]

2a: Engaging and Readying Staff for Change Navigating the Roadmap Activity 2: Build individual agencies that are collaborative and in a state of readiness for change. Introduction For evidence-based decision making to achieve its optimum effect, it must occur consistently within individual agencies and across the criminal justice system. That is, the reliance on evidence […]