University of Colorado Boulder will become the home of a new crime and justice center that will try to bridge a gap between agencies to address crime prevention and criminal justice issues.
The center’s creation was spearheaded by Jillian Turanovic and her co-director David Pyrooz, both professors at the university.
“[It] aims to fill a critical need in the state and across the university as a whole, where this will be the first center that really is directly focused on crime prevention and criminal justice issues,” Turanovic explained. “So our aim here is to really partner with local agencies and to connect both local and state level agencies in areas of crime prevention.”…