The global 2020 coronavirus pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the operations and actions of local, state, and national governments across all areas of criminal justice. The unique characteristics of this pandemic trend toward short- and long-term consequences as significant changes to criminal justice and legal outcomes. To respond to these impacts, the Washington Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) applied for and received the 2022 State Justice Statistics (SJS) grant from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The SAC sought the grant to increase access to statistical data and create new metrics and indicators to enhance the integrated criminal justice database — the Justice Data Warehouse (JDW) — in efforts to strategically and analytically evaluate the pandemic’s impacts in criminal justice. Through this grant, the Washington SAC leveraged and built upon the JDW to expand the data variables by creating COVID-19 metrics and indicators to help assess and account for COVID-19 impacts in the criminal justice and legal system.
Sentencing
Examines the relationship between the type of sentence received for domestic violence and recidivism
Provides statewide data by county on respondents’ awareness of serious crimes committed in their neighborhoods in 2006
This project aims to connect data from multiple agencies to detail the relationship between arrests, court cases, and corrections.
This project endeavors to assess disparities in the criminal justice system by each decision point.
Provides data regarding race, ethnicity, age, and sentences of juveniles who were tried as adults and those who were tried in juvenile court
Explores how many juvenile offenders who were sentenced as adults had previous contact with the foster care system
This report reviews disparities in sex offender sentencing in Washington state using a Quantile Regression.
This project reviews Washington state's offender score, and other situations calculations associated to the offender score, on rates of recidivism rates.
Examines the number of sentences and average sentence length by offense type and county to determine whether sentencing for similar crimes is uniform across counties in Washington