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Convict Criminology and the Center for Social Justice Policy

The Center for Social Justice Policy emerged in 2008 in response to requests from individuals, groups, advocacy organizations, community and faith leaders seeking information and program development in the criminal justice field for developing restorative and social justice information, programs, and policies that is real and tangible.

The focus of those seeking criminal justice information and programs were significantly directed at locating social justice information on the needs of victims, prisoners, ex-prisoners and the community, and the economic, social, political, and cultural dynamics between social justice and the criminal justice system.

Of further importance was the need for information concerning outcome data of legislative and criminal justice policies and practices currently in effect in the U.S. today, and whether these policies and practices actually fulfill the criminal justice objective.

The most significant factor of those seeking social justice information was the important component of follow-up, follow-through, and evaluation, in determining what aspects of criminal justice processes succeed and fail in putting in place credible preventive and rehabilitative responses to crime in a retributive criminal justice system.

The Center for Social Justice Policy thus emerged and established a research structure to identify, evaluate, and analyze criminal justice issues, and develop information for discussion, publication, and implementation, to meet this need.

The Center for Social Justice Policy seeks to build on the experience and efforts of the convict criminology perspective, our initial findings, and current research profiles and programs to encourage and assist in expanding both restorative justice and social justice policy in America, and thereby transform the criminal justice system to be a pro-social institution for our society.