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Outcomes, discoveries, and analysis from our breadth of good governance initiatives.
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[From Our Partners] Evaluation of the West Harlem Community Reentry and Restoration Project
Through credible messengers, restorative justice, and a capacity-building incubator, WHCRRP provided direct services to those in Manhattanville and the Grant Houses and surrounding area in the West Harlem community.
Supporting Survivors of Gender-Based Violence Impacted by the Legal System
The project will gather insights through interviews with survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) who have also had contact with the criminal legal system. The goal is to understand the challenges survivors face when accessing services in New York City and provide recommendations for improved practices to government agencies and service providers.
Building Better Public Sector Data
This brief details how CUNY ISLG staff work with governmental agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other partners to effectively collect, maintain, and use data, especially in the face of time and resource constraints.
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[From Our Partners] A Community-Focused Approach to Addressing Trauma: Lessons Learned from the Center for Trauma Innovation
This brief showcases how learning communities can be used to support innovation, growth, and collaboration among organizations working toward shared outcomes. The Center for Trauma Innovation, a CJII-funded project, is used as a case study.
Building Strong Communities through Strategic Investments
Reflecting on the past decade of work, this model brief takes stock of these four CJII goals; discusses how DANY, CUNY ISLG, and other partners achieved them; and provides a blueprint for practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and funders.
From Research to Action to Successful Outcomes
The Reducing Revocations Challenge aimed to fill the void of information on drivers of revocation through in-depth, mixed-method research in 10 jurisdictions (Phase I) and use what was learned to identify and put into action innovative strategies to improve probation outcomes and equity in those outcomes in a subset of those sites.
Lowering Jail Populations Safely Before, During, and After COVID-19
Two years out from COVID-19’s peak, there continues to be no apparent correlation between changes in incarceration and violent crime. Most individuals released from jail on pretrial status did not return to jail custody, and local violent crime rates varied regardless of changes to the jail population—suggesting that jail reduction reforms can be implemented safely.
Safety and Justice Challenge 2023 Research Year-in-Review
This edition of the Review summarizes research that took place in 2023, including new Research Consortium member organizations and reviewers, updates on newly funded work, recently published research products, and what has been learned to date across research projects about racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal legal system.
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[From Our Partners] Achieving Racial Equity and Improving Culture in Jails Using a Community-Engaged Quality Improvement Process
Research on conditions of confinement has historically been limited by a lack of access to the perspectives of individuals residing in jail. To understand the factors driving inequity in jail culture, CUNY ISLG funded Justice System Partners to partner with Wellbeing & Equity Innovations (WEI) to conduct a mixed-methods study in an SJC site using community-based participatory research methods.
“I Want To Be The Help That I Never Received”: Barriers to BIPOC Representation in the Helping Professions & Recommendations to Address Them
CUNY ISLG embarked on a process to understand the barriers to becoming a helping professional generally and in particular for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) persons, as well as challenges faced while working and advancing as one.
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[From Our Partners] Build-Out of Student Services Report: Findings from the Process Evaluation
In 2019, College and Community Fellowship (CCF) received CJII funding to launch the Build-Out of Student Services (BOSS) project, which provides reentry programming based in New York City that develops education and career skills specifically among formerly incarcerated women.
Expanding Opportunities for Education & Employment for College Students in Prison
CIP funded seven colleges and universities to deliver college instruction across 17 prisons in New York from Fall 2017 through Spring 2022. CUNY ISLG conducted a multiyear process evaluation of the Initiative to assess its implementation
Turning Local Data into Meaningful Reforms
In its eighth year, the SJC now supports a diverse network of more than 57 cities, counties, and states across the country in developing and implementing decarceration strategies. This report breaks down its the data-driven model of criminal justice reform, including what kinds of data were captured, how data were mobilized for change, and lessons learned when using administrative data for policy design and evaluation.
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[From Our Partners] Programs for Foster Youth Transitioning to Adulthood Evaluation
Graham Windham’s “Graham SLAM (Support, Lead, Achieve, Model)” and The Door’s “Academy” offer New York City foster youth transitioning to adulthood personalized support through mentorship, coaching, and youth-driven services.
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[From Our Partners] Redefining Community Safety in Three US Counties
Research has uncovered that community safety cannot be treated in a one-size-fits-all manner, and conversations about safety should be locally oriented, bearing in mind the unique local contexts and nuances.
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[From Our Partners] The NYC Health Justice Network Recidivism Evaluation Study
The study found a strong, significant, and consistent effect of college participation on reducing new convictions following release. Participation in this form of postsecondary education reduced reconviction by at least 66 percent.
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[From Our Partners] The Impacts of College-in-Prison Participation on Safety and Employment in New York State
The study found a strong, significant, and consistent effect of college participation on reducing new convictions following release. Participation in this form of postsecondary education reduced reconviction by at least 66 percent.
[From Our Partners] Evaluation of the West Harlem Community Reentry and Restoration Project
The West Harlem Community Reentry and Restoration Project (WHCRRP) is an initiative funded under CJII in response to the June 2014 law enforcement intervention that led to the arrest and indictment of 103 individuals living in the Manhattanville and Grant public housing developments and surrounding areas.
Reform in Action: Findings and Recommendations from a 3-Year Process Evaluation of New York's 2020 Criminal Legal Reforms
The evaluation, which covered all four of the key areas of reform, aimed not just to document what the rollout looked like, but also to understand the factors and circumstances that facilitated or hindered success. Importantly, it centered the perspectives of those closest to the process—namely, administrators, practitioners, direct service providers, and people involved with the criminal legal system.
Reform in the Media: Analyzing How Local Media Covered New York’s Criminal Legal Reform Narrative
Our findings suggest that media coverage of the reforms lacked details about the legislation’s purpose and specific changes to the pretrial process, disproportionately focused on perspectives that were critical of the legislation, and emphasized the perceived negative impacts to community safety.