About The Loyola Chicago Center For Criminal Justice

The Center’s mission is to promote fair, informed, effective and ethical approaches to criminal justice policy and practice through collaborative interdisciplinary research and evaluation, professional leadership development, and targeted projects designed to bring about systemic improvements in the criminal justice system.

The Center’s work will focus on and advance four specific and interrelated goals:

  • Improve the quality of knowledge and practice in the criminal justice field;
  • Motivate and support policy reform efforts;
  • Carry out targeted reform initiatives; and
  • Provide an institutional home for sustained criminal justice research, education and reform.

Contact Us

  • Center for Criminal Justice Research
  • Loyola University Chicago
  • 1032 W. Sheridan Road, Mundelein Center, Room 8111
  • Chicago, Illinois 60660
  • Phone: 773-508-8594
  • Email: ccj@luc.edu