Fourth National Justice Modelling Workshop

Criminal Justice Sector Transformation - Calculating Social & Economic Benefits

10 July 2008

Case Study Presentation Presenter: Shane Perkins

Overview of the IJIS Program Initiative

• hosted by the Department of Justice and Attorney-General• Funding $35.742M to deliver 11 projects over 7 years

Focus: to improve the criminal justice sector information coordination and collaboration between criminal justice agencies

• challenge: large and complex initiative requiring re-engineering of business process with associated changes to information systems

Program Business Challenges

- Productivity benefits alone do not provide a strong business case- financial tangible benefits limited to individual agencies

- Identification of realistic and justifiable social & economic benefits- lack of available data and difficulty with ‘common language’

- Agencies working in a sector to fulfil individual agency goals- separate systems, processes and job function

- No sector owner and no focus on ‘end-to-end’ outcome- agreeing goals and values may prove testing

- Range of views on sought outcomes and responsibility- will the sector be able to form a consensus

IJIS Vision Statement

The IJIS Vision is to establish:

An integrated criminal justice sector that delivers informed justice solutions through:• cooperation • information sharing• supporting systems to enhance the safety of:• staff • participants• the community. Agency

Teamwork

Key Objectives of the Vision

Process– Improve the end-to-end criminal justice process by re-

engineering business processes and work practices to empower staff to do their job efficiently and effectively

System– Establish an holistic, integrated criminal justice system by

developing the legislative, statistical and technology environments that foster communication and information sharing

People– Strengthen the level of confidence in the management of

criminal justice by demonstrating the effectiveness of criminal justice policies, processes and intervention

The Allen Consulting Group Approach

Endorsed IJIS Benefit Indicator Categories

• Better use of resources• improved ability to provide performance and service

delivery reporting data • Increased capacity of the criminal justice system

• reduce the average number of adjournments to finalise a matter

• Reduced offending• Earlier detection of offenders who breach reporting and

other conditions of bail• Increased satisfaction with the criminal justice system

• Decrease time through courts to finalise a matter

Mapping of IJIS Benefits Indicators

All Ages Simulation Model

Benefit values adjusted to their present value in 2006 thus rate of 5.5% used to discount benefits from 2010-11 until 2015-16.

Model Output: Cost of crime increases due to the modelled number of offence increasing to 2010-11 however then decreases quickly to exceed all other benefits by 2012-13.

AJS Model in Play – Court AppearancesFewer court appearances imply a benefit of increased capacity which should be valued in terms of total (recurrent plus capital)

The Report on Government Services only provides information about recurrent expenditure thus analysis provides an under-estimate of the capacity benefits.

Sensitivity AnalysisThe AJS model proved highly non-linear and utilised ‘Monte-Carlo’ thus the analysis had to be considered in this context

Results demonstrated asymmetic values thus a greater change was experienced when the IJIS impact is 5 per cent more conservative than when it is 5 per cent less conservative.

IJIS Benefit

Social Economic Values & Dependencies

ConclusionThe Social & Economic benefits have been estimated, valued and agreed by central and criminal justice agencies

The resulting findings substantiate a sound business investment returning benefits to the criminal justice agencies, central agencies and the community

The values obtained, although not easy, were achieved through consultation, published data, literature and the results from the AJS model

Where to Next?

The social and economic benefits are not internal to Government but are an estimate of the value to the community arising from the improvements in the criminal justice sector

The sector needs to now:• deliver the IJIS program• deliver statistics that allow the assumptions to be tested• test values and assumptions• use and continue to validate the model (as we know more)• manage and track benefits towards realisation• implement continuous improvement and share lessons learned