Medium Weight Criteria

Description

Presence of conditions by ZIP code where the criminal justice system has historically taken a detention-first, prevention-last approach, based on JENI’s Criminalization Risk analysis, which measures: Mental Health Hospitalizations (per 1,000 people); Substance Use-Related Hospitalizations (per 1,000 people); Homelessness Rate (per 1,000 people).

Dataset and/or Source

Justice Equity Need Index (JENI) Criminalization Risk (Catalyst California)¹

Scale

Site

Lowest Priority (0)

Lowest presence of detention-first, prevention-last conditions

Highest Priority (1)

Highest presence of detention-first, prevention-last conditions

Prospective Site Scoring Notes

Used square as site