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NORC’s Center on Public Safety & Justice develops actionable, evidence-based solutions to crime and victimization. Those insights empower decision-makers to make criminal justice systems fairer and more effective and to inform community-level responses beyond policing and incarceration. When social systems are frayed, the Center fills an unmet need for trustworthy, non-partisan data collection and rigorous, transparent analysis and evaluation.

The Center integrates our multidisciplinary team of experts in criminology, demography, economics, and public health and NORC’s industry-leading survey data collection capacity. Our holistic approach and longstanding partnerships with diverse local stakeholders in the hardest-hit communities allow us to identify programming innovations at every societal level.

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Making justice and public safety efforts fairer and more effective requires subject matter expertise and trustworthy data and analysis.

Live Crime Tracker Shows Major Crime Declines in First Half of 2024

Research Brief

This brief leverages open data from NORC's Live Crime Tracker to find unprecedented declines in serious crimes in the first half of 2024 for a sample of large U.S. cities.

Resilience Makes Law Enforcement Better

Expert View

By Elizabeth Mumford & Weiwei Liu. When stress for law enforcement officers goes unmanaged, performance and health decline—sometimes seriously.

Access to Justice Design & Testing Program

A new data collection effort measuring and reporting access to justice for civil legal needs

Client:

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Census of Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies

Collecting the 2024 Census of Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies Data

Client:

Bureau of Justice Statistics