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Center for Justice Research

CJR Core Competencies

  • Analyzing administrative data and official records
  • Designing quantitative and qualitative research
  • Evaluating policies and programs in criminal justice
  • Strategic planning
  • Writing grant proposals

About WYSAC’s CJR

Through its Center for Justice Research (CJR), WYSAC is the state’s federally certified statistical analysis center for criminal justice studies. CJR research ranges from collecting original data or analyzing administrative records to multivariate statistical modeling and performing comprehensive program evaluations. Our main research areas are:
  • Corrections
  • Crime prevention
  • Domestic violence
  • Judicial systems
  • Juvenile justice
  • Probation and parole
  • Sex offenses
  • Suicide prevention
  • Substance abuse
  • Victims of crime
Through CJR, WYSAC is active nationally in the Justice Research and Statistics Association (www.jrsa.org). In 2006 a CJR evaluation of Wyoming’s drug courts received the JRSA’s annual Hoke Award for excellence in policy analysis. CJR also serves as the research partner for the state’s Project Safe Neighborhoods, working with the Wyoming Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police.

Recent BJS-funded Projects

Collective Efficacy and Crime in Rural Wyoming. As the state’s clearinghouse for criminal justice research, WYSAC is eligible to apply annually for federal funding from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/) under the State Justice Statistics program. This year, CJR collaborated with WYSAC’s Survey Research Center to secure BJS funding for a statewide survey measuring factors associated with the rapid economic development of Wyoming’s energy resources. CJR researchers also collected archived measures of crime and growth rate and are using hierarchical linear modeling to test theoretical hypotheses.

Analysis of Tribal Crime Data. Again this year, CJR is being funded by BJS to compile and analyze crime statistics on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.

Agent-based Modeling. Last year’s BJS award was used to develop an online simulation tool for examining the potential impact of hypothetical policy changes on the Wyoming corrections population.

Other CJR Projects. For information about WYSAC’s previous BJS-funded work, as well as CJR projects for various state agencies, please use the Quick Links panel on the right.

Contact CJR:
Rodney Wambeam
phone: 307-760-8928
e-mail: rodney@uwyo.edu