Bureau of Justice Statistics: National Pretrial Reporting Program Overview

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Matthew DeMichele, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Sociologist in RTI’s Applied Justice Research Division. He is the Director of the Center for Legal Systems Research and has conducted criminal justice research on correctional population trends, risk prediction, terrorism/extremism prevention, and program evaluation. Matthew has worked with local, state, and federal agencies and philanthropic partners to conduct research to address complex policy issues. His research has recently been published in several outlets, including Crime & Delinquency, American Sociological Review, and Criminology & Public Policy.

Erica Grasmick is a statistician in the Judicial Statistics Unit at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). In addition to serving as the project manager for the National Pretrial Reporting Program, Erica oversees BJS’s indigent defense collection portfolio. Prior to her position at BJS, Erica held the position of senior research analyst in the Case Analysis Unit at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). At NCMEC, Erica led the methodology, data collection and analysis of results for the Deceased Child Project, responded to ad hoc quantitative data analysis requests and conducted cold case reviews. Erica holds a master’s in quantitative methods from Columbia University and a master’s in teaching from the University of Virginia.

Ryan M. Labrecque, PhD, is a Senior Justice Researcher in the Corrections and Reentry Research Program in the Justice Practice Area at RTI. His primary research interests and areas of expertise include the use and impact of restrictive housing, the development and validation of risk assessments, and the implementation and evaluation of correctional services. Prior to joining RTI, Dr. Labrecque was an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida. Ryan also previously served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Portland State University, a Research Assistant for the University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute, and in several correctional practitioner roles in the New Hampshire and Maine Departments of Corrections, including as a Correctional Officer, Social Worker, and Probation and Parole Officer. He has also been a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on 10 federal, foundation, and state research grants. To date, Dr. Labrecque has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles on topics related to institutional and community corrections. His work has appeared in journals that include Justice Quarterly, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Experimental Criminology, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and Crime and Delinquency.

Ian A. Silver is a quantitative criminologist at RTI. His research interests include applied statistics and the application of advanced statistical techniques to answer research questions in criminal justice, criminology, and psychology and to guide the development of criminal justice policies. Dr. Silver's expertise lies in developing, evaluating, and demonstrating statistical applications and techniques through the use of various data sources and data simulations. His data simulations have been used in various publications, as well as his open-source projects: the Sources of Statistical Bias Series, the Misidentification of Structural Associations Series, and the Simulating Data Series. Recent projects include evaluating how correctional practices can increase or decrease the difficulties faced by individuals during or after involvement with the correctional system. He is currently the project director for the National Pretrial Reporting Project and the dissemination task lead for the Advancing Pretrial Practice and Research project. Dr. Silver’s recent work has appeared in JAMA NetworkOpen, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Adolescence, and Justice Quarterly.