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Collecting Race and Ethnicity Data

Guidelines for community supervision agencies that want to begin or improve race and ethnicity data collection.

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Data collection and analysis rightly play a major role in the operations of criminal legal systems. Local, state, and federal justice agencies, as well as policy and research institutions, all rely on data collection and analysis to guide decisions on policy and practice. In the last 40 years, the community supervision field (pretrial, probation, and parole) has focused on using data to develop evidence-based strategies and to study factors, such as supervision conditions, technical violations, and revocations, that impact community supervision outcomes.

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