Risk and Needs Triage™: Fostering Evidence-Based Placements in Criminal Justice
Streamlined, More Affordable Version Now Available!
Diversion of drug possession offenders from incarceration to community-based programs is increasingly common at the state and local level. Yet decision makers lack a rational, evidence-based system to guide placements in ways that protect public health and safety without straining budgets.
Science is now pointing the way. Rigorously grounded in scientific evidence, the Risk and Needs Triage is a decision support tool for judges and other criminal justice decision makers. Both the streamlined, ready-to-use (RANT™) and original version with advanced reporting features (RANT-Plus™) help court officials by matching drug-involved offenders to the optimal level of supervision and treatment. Read FAQs.
RANT was created by the Treatment Research Institute (TRI), developers of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI), one of the most widely used assessment tools in the field of addiction. Also see TRI-CEP, TRI’s evidence-based system for evaluating drug court programs and adaptively managing clients.
"RANT has assisted in streamlining our operations and is yielding useful empirical evidence about our arrestee population and how we might best serve them."
- Chief Judge Lucy Wieland, Fourth Judicial Court; Hennepin County, MN