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About Us

Mission

The Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice's mission is to research, develop and advance innovative criminal and juvenile justice law and policy approaches through collaboration with and among scholars, policymakers and practitioners.


Goals

  • Build broad-based coalitions that support and advance innovative, research-based criminal and juvenile justice law and policy approaches.
  • Support criminal and juvenile justice research by scholars from UC Berkeley and elsewhere, and apply this research to pressing criminal and juvenile justice law and policy issues.
  • Train students at UC Berkeley, and scholars, policymakers and practitioners in the greater criminal justice community, on innovative criminal and juvenile justice law and policy approaches.


Guiding Principles

  • BCCJ believes that criminal and juvenile justice policies will be most successful if they involve collaboration and partnership between law enforcement and the community.
  • BCCJ believes that criminal and juvenile justice policy and practice should be informed by research, and that criminal and juvenile justice research agendas should be informed by policymakers and practitioners.