Adults
SANDAG conducts research studies to assist policymakers and criminal justice officials in assessing programs targeted at the adult offender population.
Current Adults Projects
Project Safe Neighborhoods Research Partner
Compiles timely statistics related to gun violence.
Conducts a data-driven approach to identifying the primary policy drivers of reduced incarceration rates during the period of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Aims to implement a collaborative public health and public safety enhanced Probation supervision strategy based on the latest evidence-based practice research.
Past Adults Projects
Community Sex Offender Management Implementation Project
Through a collaborative effort with a group of multi-disciplines, standards for sex offender management were established.
Monitoring the Illegal Firearms Market
Expanded the knowledge of how offenders obtain guns, their reasons for doing so, and the nature of the gun market, with a focus on role of gangs, drug markets, and drug use.
An evaluation of local collaboration to provide better reentry services to state inmates.
An evaluation of San Diego County Probation Department’s effort to implement evidence-based practices in the Post-Release Offender Division.
An evaluation of the VMF program, which was designed to address common issues found in this population and reduce recidivism.
San Diego Community Justice Initiative
Expanded an existing program by assessing clients on their risk and needs, better linking clients to service providers, strengthening the current documentation effort to ensure decisions and strategies are informed by data, and engaging with the community to a greater degree to ensure restorative justice.
This project serves adults who have been cited, arrested, booked into jail, and/or charged or convicted of a misdemeanor offense.
An evaluation of Public Safety Realignment implementation and its outcomes.
