Just & Safe: How To Reform Police and Criminal Justice Systems While Increasing Public Safety
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The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform works to transform youth and adult justice systems through innovative research, training, and technical assistance to system leaders, justice practitioners, and law enforcement agencies.
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Reduce. Improve. Reinvest.
At NICJR, we utilize a Reduce, Improve, Reinvest framework to enact short and long term system transformation. Our work strives to reduce the size of the justice system; improve the system's operations, conditions, and outcomes; and reinvest cost savings from a reduced and improved system back into the communities devastated most by violence, crime, and incarceration.
Reduce
Reduce the size of the justice system by reducing…
- The number of youth and adults incarcerated in prisons, jails, and detention facilities
- The number of youth and adults under community supervision
- The footprint of law enforcement
- The budgets of justice and law enforcement agencies
Improve
Improve the justice system by improving…
- The operations of justice and law enforcement agencies through rigorous training and increased transparency and accountability
- The conditions of prisons, jails, and detention facilities
- The outcomes of system-impact youth, adults, and families
Reinvest
Reinvest cost savings back into communities by investing in…
- Community-based alternative responses
- Community violence intervention and gun violence reduction strategies.
- Community-based alternatives to incarceration
- Community transformation and neighborhood revitalization initiatives
