Quest Assessments

Know who. And how™

In the complex world of corrections, the need to make decisions is constant. It is simply part of the landscape. While virtually every decision carries risk, none are more risky than questions concerning sentencing, assignment, probation or parole. For a community supervision professional, a hundred good decisions pale in the face of a single bad one. When offender or public safety are compromised, agencies come under intense public and political scrutiny. And careers can come to an abrupt end.

The challenge is how assimilate all the data and knowledge about an offender in a manageable way. How then to analyze it quickly and make sound, evidenced-based decisions. Without bias. For hundreds of offenders in a single caseload. 

Agency budget pressures favor population reduction. Yet without a proven tool to aid decision-making, it is simply not possible to determine offenders most suitable for release. Will this particular offender reoffend?  Is that offender prone to violence and a risk to the public? There are too many factors, too many data points, too many unknowns to reliably produce an accurate assessment and determine the proper course of action. Simple scoring systems won’t work.

Quest Assessments from Syscon understands that a reliable assessment depends on the type of risk factors each offender presents, not just a score. Using advanced modeling techniques presented through a standard, web-based survey tool, Quest examines an offender's risk factor pattern to create a simulation of the risk posed to the community. It’s a reliable, evidenced-based solution that overcomes the limitations of traditional summed-scored risk assessment approaches.

The Quest model determines how an offender's risk factor pattern interacts and links it directly to empirical outcomes. Community supervision and other assessment professionals can create "what if" scenarios to test which criminogenic need is likely to be linked to future recidivism reduction and how to reduce that risk. With Quest, you can quickly paint a meaningful, statistically valid profile of each offender to help determine – and defend – your recommendations.

For use through virtually every decision phase of the criminal justice spectrum, Quest eliminates the guesswork for offender management. When decisions carry extraordinary risk, Quest delivers confidence.   

Key features for Quest Assessments include:

• Capacity for Violence
• Criminogenic Needs - Recidivism
• Criminogenic Needs - Violence
• What-If Analysis
• Dynamic Reporting
• Empirically-based Pattern Analysis
• Fully-encrypted Security Model
• Software-as-a-Service

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