Texas Crime and Justice Center
The mission of the Texas Crime and Justice Center (TCJC) is to facilitate applied research and the expansion of evidence-based knowledge regarding crime and best practices in response to crime in the region and throughout Texas, the Southwest, and the nation.
Goals of the Center
- 1) collaborating with public agencies, NGOs, the legislature, other institutions of higher education, and the private sector to identify criminal justice policy and practice issues of broad interest or concern and to inform those issues with the infusion of existing and new knowledge.
- 2) partnering with criminal justice agencies to help them identify and implement evidence-based practices for improving their outcomes.
- 3) producing new knowledge regarding best practices, the application of which may benefit the field of criminal justice more broadly (i.e. beyond our partner agencies).
- 4) increasing the visibility and renown of the criminal justice research enterprise at Texas State University’s School of Criminal Justice and Criminology.
Advisory Board
- Scott Bowman, Ph.D. | Texas State University
- Robert Clark | Central Texas Public Safety Commission
- Raul Garcia, LCSW LCDC | Austin Community College
- Sheriff Mike Gleason | Williamson County Sheriff’s Office
- Brennan Griffen | Texas Appleseed
- Chief Bo Kidd | City of Buda Police Department
- Councilman Rudy Metayer | City of Pflugerville City Council