MISSION
The Research and Evaluation Center (REC) is an applied research organization established in 1975 to provide members of the academic community of John Jay College with opportunities to respond to the research needs of justice practitioners in New York City, New York State, and the nation.
The Center assists public and private agencies affiliated with the justice system by conducting research and evaluation studies of crime prevention strategies, the effectiveness of justice interventions on individual behavior, and efforts to improve the impact and efficiency of justice system operations.
The Center operates under the supervision of the Office for the Advancement of Research (OAR), headed by Dr. Karen Terry, Associate Provost and Dean of Research (Interim) at John Jay College.
The director of the Center is Dr. Jeffrey A. Butts. He joined the staff of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in February 2010, succeeding the previous director, Dr. Nancy Jacobs.
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NEWS
The director of the Research and Evaluation Center, Dr. Jeffrey Butts, was recently named to the juvenile justice subcommittee of the federal Office of Justice Program's Science Advisory Board. The other members of the subcommittee are Drs. Mark Lipsey (Chair), Edward Mulvey, Linda Teplin, David Finkelhor, and Judge Ted McKee.
The Center's report on juvenile justice reform was recently cited by editorials in the New York Times (09-20-2011) and the Albany Times Union (10-2-2011).
On September 1, 2011, the Research and Evaluation Center received a grant of $375,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice to expand its evaluation of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Community-Based Violence Prevention demonstration program (CBVP) as well as the Center’s assessment of the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention.
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