JUSTICE AUDIT DATA DOMAINS
FROM GENERIC TO SPECIFIC
An ecosystemic framework. While some types of data may be valuable in creating Data
Portraits in any community, others are specific to your
THE OVERARCHING PROBLEM community. You are the experts on Grand Rapids, so we need
you to identify the most important data to inform the audit in
PROBLEM-SOLVING ASSETS each domain.
The Justice Audit provides a framework for assessing and DATA PORTRAITS
addressing the state of safety and justice across all the The data we gather will form Data Portraits for each domain. So
neighborhoods of a local jurisdiction. It covers three data exactly what data should be included?
domains which function together in a complementary way:
For each of the three domains, we have prepared generic Data
1 CRISIS MANAGEMENT GOVERNANCE Portraits. Each one includes:
1. The data Domain
2 GEOGRAPHY OF SAFETY & JUSTICE 2. Two or more data Categories
3. Multiple data Elements related to each Category
A community-based framework.
To prepare for this meeting, we would like you to select one
3 THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM domain you feel you can best contribute to and consider what
Categories and Elements YOU think are appropriate to that
Domain, and specifically for Grand Rapids. Please feel free to
revise more than one if you are so inclined.
Some title here that’s a bit descriptive. Like: USE THIS CHART TO THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN BE ADDED TO THE DATA ASSOCIATED
PORTRAITS
Crisis Management Governance Geography of Safety and Justice Criminal Justice System
Addresses the interconnected nature of Geography of Safety and Justice The Criminal Justice System addresses
public safety problems in neighborhoods addresses opportunities for opportunities for criminal justice system
where what are meant to be last-resort, neighborhood reinvestment by reform at each stage of the case
crisis responses to chronic insecurities- identifying and assessing the strength of processing continuum, from arrest to
from punitive incarceration and neighborhood networks devoted to sentencing and reentry, which together
emergency room health care to homeless violence prevention, healthcare and with neighborhood reinvestment enable
shelters and zero-tolerance schooling— socio-economic mobility. a reduction in the criminal justice
have become everyday practice. footprint in effected communities.
PLEASE CONSIDER... PLEASE CONSIDER... PLEASE CONSIDER...
• To what extent do each of these • What are the different ways in which • What are the key decision-making
insecurities represent the kinds of safety and justice at the neighborhood points along the case processing
destabilizing conditions that are most level be measured? continuum where opportunities for
likely to affect safety and justice in • What kinds of violence prevention, diversion and alternative responses could
neighborhoods? Are there others that we youth development, health, housing, be implemented?
are missing which might contribute to education and workforce development • How do decisions at key points along
conditions of safety and justice? networks exist in neighborhoods with low the case processing system affect the
• How might the effect of different levels of concentrated distress? volume and composition of cases at other
combinations of chronic insecurities • What kind of violence prevention stages?
overlap and interact to impact residents' networks exist, which could be effectively • What insights into the case processing
experience of safety and justice? strengthened in neighborhoods with high continuum might various justice
levels of distress? practitioners have, which could give
• What kinds of neighborhood networks context to the fair administration of
exist, which could be effectively mobilized justice?
and coordinated to address chronic
insecurities in youth development,
health, housing, education, and work?
