CURL is collaborating with Loyola’s Center for Criminal Justice Research (CCJ) and the Winnebago County’s Partnerships and Strategies Reentry Committee to develop an integrated reentry system that is organized around risk, needs and responsivity principles.
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The Rockford Metropolitan Agency for Planning (RMAP), along with the Center for Criminal Justice Research, Practice and Policy and the Center for Urban Research and Learning at Loyola University Chicago collaborated on a project focused on crime and policing in Rockford, IL. The purpose of the project was to analyze the crime that occurs in Rockford and assess community perceptions of crime and the police to make recommendations about how to improve community-police relations and reduce violent crime in Rockford.
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This pilot oral history project examined both these impacts and how a community organization “lives on” in the form of how it shaped both public policy and individual activists’ careers. In addition to being of specific interest to those seeking to understand community safety, the project also hopes to establish a model for understanding a community-based organization’s impact years after the actual work took place.
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The Chicago Girl's Coalition (CGC), which has a membership of approximately 60 organizations engaged in youth-led research on relational aggression in girls, particularly in communities of color. CURL reviewed existing research on this topic, presented it to the youth members of the coalition for their reaction, and provided research content for a web-based information clearinghouse on girl-on-girl aggression.
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During the fall of 1996, Rogers Park Community Council (RPCC) and Loyola University Chicago's Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) partnered to work on a defensible spaces project within the Rogers Park Community that included community research, workshops and a community forum.
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