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Criminal Justice Technology Adoption and Implementation Guide

NCJ Number
310474
Date Published
April 2025
Length
13 pages
Annotation

This document serves as a guide for criminal justice decision-makers as they consider the technical, operational, and governance factors that go along with adoption and implementation of technology solutions; the guide’s first section focuses on problem analysis and helping criminal justice practitioners explore potential solutions, and the second part introduces a Criminal Justice Technology Adoption and Implementation Framework.

Abstract

This guidance document provides criminal justice decision-makers, including those in law enforcement, corrections, community supervision and courts, with a resource to assist them as they address three factors: technical, operational, and governance, that go along with the adoption and implementation of technology solutions. It begins with a problem analysis workflow, providing questions that agencies should ask along the way; presents the Criminal Justice Technology Adoption and Implementation Framework, prompting an identification of the agency’s core purpose and goals, and provides a breakdown of the different aspects of the Framework, along with specific examples relating to the three factors, and how to consider them. The document includes a listing of questions that criminal justice professionals (CJP’s) should ask before adopting and implementing a technology, and cites some additional resources, guides, and toolkits.

Date Published: April 1, 2025