About Us
Mission
The mission of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice is to enhance public safety and foster a fair and accountable justice system through research, analysis, and collaboration.
Goals
- To increase understanding about criminal justice issues among policy-makers, practitioners, scholars, and students.
- To improve outcomes for individuals involved in the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
- To increase stakeholder's access to timely, relevant, and understandable information on criminal justice issues.
Guiding Principles
- BCCJ believes connecting scholarship to practice is an effective way to improve the criminal justice system.
- BCCJ believes that research and analysis should be accessible to a broad range of stakeholders.
- BCCJ believes that criminal justice laws and policies should be informed by balanced, objective information.
- BCCJ believes that educating policy-makers, practitioners and students about criminal justice issues is fundamental to system change.