Juvenile & Adult Justice
Helping justice, court, probation, reentry, and community-based programs use evidence to improve outcomes, strengthen systems, and support safer communities.
Justice systems are complex. Programs must balance accountability, public safety, rehabilitation, behavioral health, family stability, and community reintegration often while working across agencies, courts, providers, and data systems.
LMA Consulting helps juvenile and adult justice partners understand what is working, where barriers exist, and how programs can improve. Through evaluation, research, needs assessment, data analysis, technical assistance, and stakeholder engagement, we help organizations turn complex justice data into clear, responsible, and useful insight.
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Justice data needs experience, purpose, and human intelligence.
LMA brings the experience of a legacy evaluation firm to justice-focused work across courts, probation, juvenile justice, reentry, justice reinvestment, and community-based services. We use Data for Good to clarify patterns, document outcomes, and support better decisions. We use Human Intelligence to interpret findings with care, listening, and real-world understanding.
Risk, Needs & Recidivism Analysis
We help partners analyze risk, needs, protective factors, recidivism patterns, and service matching to support more informed planning and decision-making.
Reentry & Reintegration
We study the barriers and supports that shape successful reentry, including service access, family connection, housing, employment, treatment, and community stability.
Program Evaluation
We evaluate implementation, outcomes, participant engagement, service delivery, and program impact so partners can understand performance and improve practice.
Experienced Justice Evaluators
Pima INVEST Reentry Evaluation
Evaluation of a reentry program using a randomized control trial to examine participant outcomes, recidivism, and the impact of enhanced navigation, support, and treatment services.
Judicial Survey & Reporting Services
Ongoing survey, evaluation, and reporting support to help judicial partners gather feedback, summarize results, and guide decision-making.
Justice Reinvestment Program Support
Evaluation and needs assessment support for justice reinvestment efforts designed to strengthen community-based services in areas affected by historical and current incarceration trends.
Adult Probation Performance Monitoring
Performance monitoring and evaluation support for probation-related programming, helping partners track implementation, reporting requirements, and participant progress.
Consolidated Misdemeanor Problem-Solving Court
Evaluation planning and consultation for a court program serving individuals with behavioral health needs, substance use concerns, and frequent justice-system contact.
Juvenile Corrections Consultation
Consultation to support rehabilitative programming models, risk and needs assessment, and stronger alignment between youth needs, placement decisions, and services.
“We (Pima County Detainee & Crisis Systems) have worked with LMA on the INVEST randomized control trials for over five years, collaboratively working on program design, implementation, and analysis. This partnership has been extremely valuable and has led to over $2M in additional grant funds to sustain the project and a recent publication in the Journal of Correctional Health Care. I am certain we would not be in the position we are in without the thoughtful work conducted with LMA.”
Matt Pate, Deputy Director, Pima County Detainee & Crisis Systems
Our Approach
Justice systems generate complex data, but data alone does not explain how people move through programs, why outcomes vary, or where systems create barriers. Responsible evaluation requires technical rigor, practical experience, and human context.
For justice partners, this means evaluation that does more than report numbers. It helps identify what is working, what needs to change, and how programs can better support accountability, rehabilitation, reintegration, and community well-being.
30+ Years Experience
Decades of applied evaluation experience with courts, probation, juvenile justice, reentry, justice reinvestment, treatment, and community-based programs.
Data for Good
Responsible use of data to measure outcomes, reveal system patterns, identify gaps, and support decisions that improve programs and communities.
Human Intelligence
Context, listening, judgment, and real-world understanding that help partners interpret findings responsibly and turn evidence into action.