This is the opening screen in which the user identifies the offender by case number (or name, DOB, or any of a variety of ID numbers):

Clicking "submit" yields this screen where the user selects the charge for which a sentence is being selected.  The software has proposed the first count of the case identified if the user used an OJIN case number to start the process in the previous screen; the user can search for and select any state or local provision defining a crime:

Clicking "Submit" yields this display of outcomes (those shown are actual results from a query) by percentage of "success" by the measure defined under the "Recidivism" tab for offenders like the one before the court as defined under the "Profile" tab who have been sentenced for similar crimes as defined under the "Charge" tab.  All instances for which there are at least 30 matching examples are displayed in a bar, with the most commonly occuring example at the left (and others decreasing to the right).

Note:  the lower left shows the same figures in a table format; scrolling down gives the raw figures for each sentencing element displayed as a bar in the bar chart, and, near the bottom of the table  -- printed in red for caution  -- all other sentencing elements for which there are too few comparable incidents to justify a bar in the chart.  This view is pasted together to show more of what is visible by scrolling down; the lower rows of the table would normally be below the bottom of the screen, and accessed by scrolling down.


Each of the tabs allows the user to vary the defaults selected by the software from the offender and charge identified by the user in the first and second screens.  (I've pasted portions of scrolled screens together to show all of the choices; the user would have to scroll to reach lower boxes under "Charge" and "Profile").  The boxes checked are those suggested by the software based on the offender and the charge selected at the outset:
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This is what is under the "Charge" tab -- it allows you in this example to depart from the general "property crimes" category selected by the software once the user accepted "Theft II" as the charge being sentenced.  The scroll boxes allow the user instead to choose crimes by various categories and levels, or to specify a specific statute to identify the charge.
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This is under the "Recidivism" tab, allowing the user to alter the outcome measure
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and this is under the "Profile" tab, allowing the user to mold the profile of offenders who are deemed "like" the offender.  We hope to add risk level scores from jail and probation databases and, eventually, a host of offender characteristics such as drug involvment (including drug of choice), mental health status, educational achievement, employment history, and anything we can glean from existing databases contributing to the data warehouse.
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With all three tabs, clicking on "Recalculate" displays a new bar chart (and table) based on the changed settings; clicking on the "New Search" takes you back to the first screen. Note that we are comparing both community-based and incarcerative dispositions.
Return to first sample screen