Evidence-Based Initiative for Community Justice Policy and Practice
Funding Agency: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General
Principal Investigator: Todd Clear
Co-Principal Investigator: Michael Ostermann
In 2011, the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General gave a small
seed grant to Rutgers University to
establish an
Evidence-Based Institute (EBI). Operating as a joint
initiative of the School of Criminal Justice and Rutgers Law School, the
EBI seeks to strengthen the evidence-based foundation for state justice
system practices by assessing how well current
practices align with established evidence-based principles, exploring
policy avenues to increase the level to which these practices coincide
with these principles, and conducting studies of the effectiveness of
current justice system practices.
