Our Mission
Reduce mass incarceration through targeted, culturally-responsive, evidence-supported solutions and strategic engagements.
What We Do
Research & Data
We use culturally responsive research and data to understand the best approaches to structural, institutional and cultural criminal justice reform. Our research helps us advocate for race, ethnicity and class-based equity within the criminal legal system.
Researcher Development
Culturally responsive and equity-sensitive researchers are necessary for an equitable criminal legal system. Diversifying the justice research workforce allows us to expand our ways of thinking and practice.
Policy Advocacy
CJR serves as a key driver of racial, ethnic and class equity in the criminal justice system. Beyond research, we advise key stakeholders and policymakers through networking with the research community by bringing academics and industry together.
Strategic Engagement
Collaboration is essential to the reimagination of the criminal justice system. We partner with local, regional, and national stakeholders for input, guidance and feedback on reducing disparities and maintaining public safety.
Center for Justice Research National Police Reform Advisory Group
In the wake of George Floyd’s tragic death and the resulting national outcry for systemic policing reforms, we formed a National Police Reform Advisory Group. The expert-laden advisory group helps chart the national response for the sustainable improvement of police-community relations.
Learn MoreWhat we're reading
Books
Smoke but No Fire
The first book to explore a shocking yet all-too-common type of wrongful conviction—one that locks away innocent people for crimes that never actually happened.
A Peculiar Indifference
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliott Currie comes a devastating exploration of the extreme levels of violence afflicting Black communities, and a blueprint for addressing the crisis.
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The Center for Justice Research is a research center devoted to data-driven solutions for an equitable criminal justice system.
