Transcript NCRP for Newcomers

NCRP for Newcomers
5th Annual Data Providers
Meeting
May 2016
Tom Rich
Ryan Kling
BJS Corrections Surveys
Prisons
PostConfinement
Community
Supervision
Offender-Level
National
Corrections
Reporting
Program (NCRP)
Aggregate
National
Prisoner
Statistics (NPS)
NCRP
Annual Parole
Survey
Abt Associates | pg 2
NCRP Collects Movement- and
Offender-Level Data
 State prison system movements
– Admissions
– Releases
 Prison custody at year end
 Post-confinement community supervision
movements
– Admissions
– Releases
Abt Associates | pg 3
Key NCRP Data Elements
 Offender ID #s
– Unique Offender ID, State ID, FBI #, SSN
 Offender characteristics
– Name, DOB, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Education, Veteran
Status, Last Known Address
 Sentence characteristics
– County where sentence imposed, Offenses, Sentence Length
 Admission date and type
 Release date and type
Abt Associates | pg 4
NCRP is an Annual Collection
Abt requests
data from
NCRP POC
Conduct
Studies
POC
uploads
file(s)
BJS submits deidentified data to
public archive
Abt
processes
file(s)
Abt submits
all data to
BJS
Conduct
Studies
Abt Associates | pg 5
NCRP has 3 prison files
 Part A (prison admissions)
– One record for each admission of a sentenced offender to
the state’s prison facilities during the year
 Part B (prison releases)
– One record for each release of a sentenced offender from
the state’s prison facilities during the year
 Part D (prison custody)
– One record for each sentenced offender in custody at yearend at the state’s prison facilities
Abt Associates | pg 6
Term Record File is the Key NCRP
Product
Prison Term Record File
Annual Prison
Files
Prison Term
1/1/00
12/31/15
Abt Associates | pg 7
NCRP has 2 PCCS files
 Part E (admissions to post-confinement
community supervision)
– one record for each admission to the state’s postconfinement community supervision program
 Part F (releases from post-confinement
community supervision)
– one record for each release from the state’s postconfinement community supervision program
Abt Associates | pg 8
Abt’s Goal is to Merge Prison and
PCCS Terms
Prison Term
1/1/00
PCCS Term
12/31/13
Abt Associates | pg 9
Tips for Reporting NCRP Data
 Know what a record represents
 Know what NCRP means by admission,
release, etc.
 Know that Abt is very flexible!
 Set up your extract programs with a “year”
parameter
 Document how to run the program (for your
successor)
Abt Associates | pg 10
Some NCRP Research Studies
 Evaluating policy initiatives
– Justice Reinvestment Initiative
– Felony drug bans
 Explaining trends in prison populations
– Aging of the prison population
 Analyzing specific crimes and offenders
– Veterans
– Sex offenders
 Developing new methods for reporting recidivism
– Offender-based statistics
Abt Associates | pg 11
Questions
Abt Associates | pg 12