IUPUI Professor to Head New IU Center for Criminal Justice Research
The success of criminal justice research projects conducted by the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment at IUPUI and directed by IUPUI Professor Samuel Nunn has lead to a spin-off center dedicated to such projects.
Professor Nunn is now head of the newly created IU Center for Criminal Justice Research.
The new center will serve as a resource for government policymakers and nonprofit agencies and will focus on crime prevention, traffic safety, and law enforcement and policing.
Nunn previously was the director of criminal justice research for the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment, a part of Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI. Nunn's 2007 research projects involved several grant programs, including those that support drug and crime control and victim services; and in-depth analyses of Indiana vehicular crashes.
The Center for Criminal Justice Research "has a mission of providing thorough and impartial research on criminal justice and public safety issues so that officials can make better-informed public policy decisions," said the IU News release announcing the center's creation.
The release quoted Nunn: "We join several centers at IU-SPEA that are committed to producing objective, actionable research that benefits citizens and informs public policy. We look forward to delivering groundbreaking research that can make our communities safer."
IUPUI faculty will comprise most of the new center's staff, says Nunn who joined the IUPUI faculty in 1993. For more about Nunn: http://www.spea.iupui.edu/faculty/samuelnunn .
For more about the IU Center for Criminal Justice Research: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/8074.html .
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