Modelling and the criminal justice system
National Criminal Justice Modelling Workshop: 2003
Presenter: Dr Anna Stewart, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Queensland
Overview of presentation:
Modelling techniques are used extensively in a wide range of settings including the biological sciences, engineering, environmental studies, transport, health, and epidemiology. Somewhat surprisingly, the social sciences and, in particular, criminology and criminal justice, have been slow to take advantage of the benefits on offer by these techniques. In this paper the advantages, and the disadvantages, to modelling the criminal justice system will be explored. The advantages include the ability to answer what if? questions and the ability to examine the downstream impact of different policy and legislative scenarios. The disadvantages include resources required to develop and maintain the models and the possibility that sophisticated technology will become a substitute, rather than a tool, for good policy analysis. In addition some of the barriers to utilising modelling within the criminal justice system will be discussed.
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