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Working Alongside Justice PractitionersThe Center for Effective Public Policy works alongside justice practitioners to help define problems and achieve desired results.Developing Effective SolutionsThe Center for Effective Public Policy assists criminal and juvenile justice policy makers and practitioners with developing effective solutions to complex problems. Managing ChangeThe Center for Effective Public Policy helps justice agencies and their partners manage change.Promoting CollaborationThe Center for Effective Public Policy promotes equitable and effective justice through collaboration.
Major Initiatives
Evidence-Based Decision Making
The Evidence-Based Decision Making in Local Criminal Justice Systems Initiative encourages systems to use research to inform and guide decisions across the justice system.
Probation & Parole
Learn more about our probation and parole initiatives, which are designed help support and shape the future of parole and probation agencies as key stakeholders in the criminal justice system.
Justice Involved Women
NRCJIW works to address the unique and complex needs of adult women involved in the criminal justice system.
Campus Sexual Assault
Find out more about our efforts to prevent and address sexual assault on college campuses.
Featured Products
Dosage Probation: Rethinking The Structure Of Probation Sentences
Setting Parole Conditions To Achieve Public Safety
Using the Parole Interview to Encourage Offender Motivation to Change
Offender Reentry Coaching Packet Series
Behavior Management of Justice-Involved Individuals: Contemporary Research and State-of-the-Art Policy and Practice
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AssistanceThe Center assists criminal justice and other public and private sector policymakers and practitioners to develop more effective solutions to criminal justice challenges through a wide range of services.
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News Now Available: New Resource Package from CSOM, NSVRC, ATSA, and RSP  New Resource from the National Resource Center on Justice Involved Women:  New Infographic from the NRCJIW: Working with Justice Involved Women
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Resource Centers
About UsThe Center is a nonprofit organization first incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1981 with its main office in Silver Spring, Maryland, and satellite offices throughout the United States. The Center's staff and network of expert consultants are configured into project te