A Better Criminal Justice System Begins with High-Quality Data

A Better Criminal
Justice System Begins
with High-Quality Data.

No Data. No Change.

We help communities, including the institutions that serve them, reshape how the criminal justice system works using high-quality data.

Our work began back in 2011, and since then we’ve established ourselves as the leading experts in creating high-quality criminal justice data standards, developing comprehensive system-wide measures, building state-of-the-art data platforms, and engaging communities in data-driven change.

Today, we engage with local communities—including prosecutors, courts, police, and the public—to make high-quality criminal justice data transparent and accessible, leading to greater system accountability.

Our Solutions

Our Solutions

Whether your goal is to improve data, use data, or make data available to the public, we can help.
No matter where you are on your data journey, we will meet you right where you are.

Groundwork

Working with high-quality data is a vital first step on the path to change and transparency. Groundwork is a suite of offerings designed to meet you where you’re at on the path to high-quality data. Groundwork enables agencies to assess and improve the quality of their criminal justice data.

Learn more

Commons

Commons is a community-driven data tool that helps shape criminal justice policy. The platform makes criminal justice data both transparent and actionable, and enables goal-setting, fostering accountability. Commons is available now for agencies across the country.

Explore Commons

Community Engagement

Our Community Engagement services bridge the gap between data and change. We engage communities to leverage data effectively, offering outreach, bridge-building, and data literacy education. Through community engagement, we enable better data-driven decision-making by all.

Learn more Join our Network

Our Commitment to High-Quality Data and Robust Standards

Our approach to measuring the system in a transparent and accessible way is rooted first in using high-quality data for measurement and ensuring a standardized approach to that measurement.

We can’t accurately measure the system without first ensuring the data used is high-quality. To learn more about our approach to high-quality data, read what it means to us and explore how we established our measures.

We’re passionate about developing and sharing data standards and best practices for all facets of the criminal justice system. To learn more, check out how we help inform legislation, dive into our comprehensive assessments of current quality, and see how we’ve partnered with others to help create data standards.

Our Approach to High Quality Data Developing Data Standards

Our Story

Measures for Justice was founded in 2011 on the back of founder and CEO Amy Bach’s book, Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court. After spending years in courtrooms across the country, she realized that most people had no idea what was happening in their criminal justice system due to the lack of available data and transparency. Measures for Justice was created to solve that problem.

Today, we’re the leading experts in creating high-quality criminal justice data standards, developing comprehensive system-wide measures, offering state-of-the-art data platforms, and engaging communities in data-driven change.

Learn More About Us Meet Our Team of Experts

Donate

Help communities reshape criminal justice in every county across the country.

Measures for Justice develops tools that help communities reshape how the system works. Your tax-deductible donation today will help bring transparency and accountability to criminal justice for lasting impact.

Make A Gift

Press Coverage

Plot Twist: Could Artificial Intelligence Be the Transformative Force for Justice?

Commonwealth Club World Affairs | San Francisco, CA

For legal crusader Amy Bach, data is the key to holding America’s justice system accountable

Washington Jewish Week | Columbia , MD

For legal crusader Amy Bach, data is the key to holding America’s justice system accountable

Jewish Telegraphic Agency | New York, NY

Jackson County prosecutor’s office focuses on fighting crime, and the data proves it

The Kansas City Star | Kansas City, MO