Methodology

The Center for Suburban Criminal Justice will:

1.Serve all three branches of the trinity of criminal justice – police, courts,and corrections.

2.Seek to include multi-county and multi-state criminal justice systems in the tri-state areabymembership in the Center.

3.Serve as informational and networking resource center on issues of suburban crime,suburban criminal justice systems and their relationship to suburban communities.

4.Link this coordinated suburban criminal justice initiative and response to nearby centercities and rural areas to provide a balanced response to crime which flows freely betweenthese environments.This will include coordinating educational programs with the Centers dealing with Urban and Rural criminal justice.

5.Work in partnership with existing criminal justice training centers and college programs inorder to:

a. Promote a suburban sense of place in these programs, which can enhance thenature of their professional mission.

b. Strengthen professional development and training for suburban criminal justicepersonnel through provision of continuous college credit and certificate programs,including those delivered in-class and via on-line courses, teleconferencing, Web-enhanced venues.

c. Increase the value and accessibility of research-based information available to thepublic on suburban criminal justice.

6.Respond to emerging national problems and highlight important issues and crime trendssuch as terrorism, gangs and drugs, violence against women and to survey the role offemale and minority criminal justice personnel in suburban venues.

7.Sponsor public events and produce television programs which will increase citizenunderstanding of suburban criminal justice as well as communities’ ability to effectively partner with professionals in the field.

8.Partner with social service agencies, corporations and others to provide effectivestrategies to suburban problems, including coordinating resources in order to moreeffectively provide services.