This one-page report focuses on DV-related court cases reported by Washington’s Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) and aims to explore the demographics of those moving through the court system with a DV-related charge.

This one-page report focuses on DV-related jail bookings reported by the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC)’s Jail Booking Reporting System (JBRS) and aims to explore the demographics of those being booked in jail with a DV-related charge.

This one-page report focuses on arrests with a Domestic Violence (DV) enhancement from the Washington State Patrol (WSP) and aims to explore the demographics of those being arrested.

This one-page report provides a summary of the Special Sex Offender Disposition Alternative (SSODA) - a sentencing alternative to incarceration for juveniles adjudicated for a sex offense. Established in 1990 under the Community Protection Act, SSODA offers eligible juveniles an alternative to incarceration by focusing on community-based treatment, rehabilitation, and supervision.

This report serves as a supplemental report to the Sentencing Guidelines Commission (SGC)’s December 2023 Re-ranking report. The supplemental report provides additional information related to the SGC’s processes for completing the project, a racial and ethnic impact analysis of the proposed recommendation, as well as a review of additional policy considerations that were raised but were not fully considered by the SGC as it worked to complete the project. The additional policy considerations include topics that are relevant for policy makers even under the current sentencing guideline grid.

This report reviews Washington state's offender score, and other situations calculations associated to the offender score, on rates of recidivism rates.

This report evaluates the court trends in the U.S. over the past 25 years and the underlying court trends and demographic differences that impact the criminal justice system with Washington State Patrol (WSP), which maintains the Computerized Criminal History (CCH).

This report evaluates the arrest trends in the U.S. over the past 25 years and the underlying arrest trends and demographic differences that impact the criminal justice system with Washington State Patrol (WSP), which maintains the Computerized Criminal History (CCH), this report.

This one-page report focuses on vehicle theft-related jail bookings reported by the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC)’s Jail Booking Reporting System (JBRS) and aims to explore the demographics of those being booked in jail with a vehicle theft-related charge.

This one-page report focuses on vehicle theft-related arrests reported by the Washington State Patrol (WSP) and aims to explore the demographics of those being arrested for vehicle theft.

The one-pager report focuses on robbery-related jail bookings reported by the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC)’s Jail Booking Reporting System (JBRS) and aims to explore the demographics of those being booked in jail with a robbery-related charge.

This one-page report focuses on rape arrests from the Washington State Patrol (WSP) and aims to explore the demographics of those being arrested for robbery.

This one-page report focuses on rape-related jail bookings reported by the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC)’s Jail Booking Reporting System (JBRS) and aims to explore the demographics of those being booked in jail with a rape-related charge.

This one-page report focuses on rape-related arrests reported by the Washington State Patrol (WSP) and aims to explore the demographics of those being arrested for rape.

This one-page report focuses on firearm-related jail bookings reported by the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC)’s Jail Booking Reporting System (JBRS) and aims to explore the demographics of those being booked in jail with a firearm-related charge.

This one-page report focuses on arrests with firearm enhancement from the Washington State Patrol (WSP) and aims to explore the demographics of those being arrested with firearm enhancement.

This report examines publicly available data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), building on a series of reports developed through a Statistical Analysis Center grant to evaluate sex and racial disproportionalities across crimes against persons, property, and society, with the goal of better understanding which demographic groups are most impacted and how these trends vary over time, while also integrating these findings to assess differences across crime types collectively.

This report examines publicly available data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to evaluate sex and racial disparities and disproportionalities, with the goal of understanding which demographic groups are most impacted and how these trends change over time, while also assessing demographic differences in bias motivation, the use of weapons and/or force, and victim-offender familiarity in crimes against society, which are typically considered victimless offenses

This report examines publicly available data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to evaluate sex and racial disparities and disproportionalities, aiming to better understand which demographic groups are most impacted and how these trends vary over time, while also assessing demographic differences in the presence of injury, bias motivation, the use of weapons and/or force, and victim-offender familiarity in crimes against property.

This report examines publicly available data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to evaluate sex and racial disparities and disproportionalities, aiming to better understand which demographic groups are most impacted and how these trends vary over time, while also assessing differences in the presence of injury, bias motivation, the use of weapons and/or force, and victim-offender familiarity in crimes against persons.

This report examines jail populations, which continue to be under-evaluated and under-researched despite the high volume of individuals who interact with jails compared to other carceral facilities, by analyzing jail booking rates as a key measure of public safety and the effectiveness of the criminal justice system, and by tracking these trends over time to provide insights that support justice-involved individuals and promote successful reintegration into the community following a jail stay.

This report examines how tracking recidivism provides critical information to support successful reintegration into the community following a prison sentence—thereby promoting community and public safety—while also analyzing which individuals are more likely to recidivate and assessing demographic differences over time to generate deeper insights for improving reentry outcomes.

This report examines rates of recidivism, which are commonly used as a key measure of public safety and for assessing the effectiveness of the criminal justice system—including sentencing, jails, prisons, community supervision, treatment, and reentry programming—while addressing the continued interest in tracking recidivism beyond a three-year follow-up period, as long-term analysis can provide valuable insights for supporting incarcerated individuals and promoting their successful reintegration into the community following a prison sentence.

Racial and Ethnic Impact Statements (REIS) provide information related to the potential impacts of a policy change on individuals from different racial and/or ethnic backgrounds. The purpose of these statements is to provide additional information to policymakers to aid in identifying potential unwanted disparities in the criminal justice system. This report provides information the potential impacts of House Bill (HB) 1815: Concerning prison riot offenses, introduced in the 2025 Washington State Legislature.

Racial and Ethnic Impact Statements (REIS) provide information related to the potential impacts of a policy change on individuals from different racial and/or ethnic backgrounds. The purpose of these statements is to provide additional information to policymakers to aid in identifying potential unwanted disparities in the criminal justice system. This report provides information the potential impacts of House Bill (HB) 1178: Concerning Sentencing Enhancements, introduced in the 2025 Washington State Legislature.

Lawmakers are tasked with making decisions about important policy changes. When making these decisions, lawmakers consult a variety of information including discussions with key stakeholders, consideration of public testimony, and analysis of available data. Understanding the potential impacts of a policy change, good or bad, is necessary to make informed policy decisions. Increasingly, lawmakers have access to a variety of impact statements that serve to predict the likely effects of policy changes such as financial impact statements and health impact statements. This report provides an overview of a new type of impact statement – Racial and Ethnic Impact Statements (REISs) – which seek to anticipate the potential impacts of policy changes on different racial and ethnic groups. This report begins with a discussion of the purpose and use of REISs and an overview of the different characteristics of the processes for producing REISs as implemented in other states. The report then discusses previous work regarding the use of REISs in Washington and provides a look at historical trends of disproportionality in arrests, convictions, and incarceration in Washington. This report concludes with an outline of the processes that the Public Safety Policy and Research Center (PSPRC) intends to use to begin producing REISs for proposed legislation involving criminal justice reforms starting in the 2025 Legislative Session as a service for the Sentencing Guidelines Commission (SGC).

This report identifies whether states have established unique sentencing policies for individuals convicted of a sex offense authorizing community supervision for life. In states where lifetime supervision policies were identified, we also examined whether the state has an established pathway off lifetime supervision status. This resource highlights each state’s relevant statutes to lifetime supervision policies with the green text emphasizing the pathway off supervision (when applicable).

This report analyzes COVID-19 impacts on criminal justice data. Specifically, it focuses on the differences amongst adult and juvenile arrests, adult sentencing and juvenile dispositions, adult and juvenile carceral admissions between 2020 and previous years. This type of analysis can help support state and federal policymakers in determining potential next steps in addressing the pandemic’s impact on the criminal justice system – both in the short-term and in the long-term.

This report analyzes COVID-19 impacts on criminal justice data. Specifically, it focuses on reported National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) offenses and Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC) arrests and bookings.

This report will draw on the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC)'s Jail Booking and Reporting System (JBRS) to evaluate the potential demographic disparities by rates of days in jail and by rates of recidivism.

This report will draw on the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs Jail Booking and Reporting System to evaluate the readiness, (e.g., relevance, interpretability, coherence, and accuracy) of this data set.

This report endeavors to assess disparities in the criminal justice system by each decision point.

This report aims to connect data from multiple agencies to detail the relationship between arrests, court cases, and corrections.

This report seeks to discover whether exclusionary discipline and later criminal justice system involvement are associated, and to determine whether race, sex, and homelessness are confounding factors.