Communities, Safety and Justice Policy Research

Our Approach to Research

To address these pressing challenges for policy and practice we draw on a range of approaches, including:

• Identifying, implementing and evaluating interventions to improve integration and outcomes for vulnerable groups;
• Identifying economic impacts of policies, programmes, interventions and funding mechanisms for illicit markets, reducing crime and reoffending, and applying cost of crime approaches in new areas;
• Developing and applying methods for measuring crime and illicit markets nationally and internationally;
• Mapping levels of intolerance and attitudes to minority groups, and incidence of crime across jurisdictions;
• Cost analysis and modelling, such as police workforce resilience planning;
• Systematically reviewing evidence and assessing the robustness of evidence for a range of interventions, such as through rapid evidence assessments

We work closely with and for public and private sector bodies, foundations, non-governmental organisations and specialist agencies in Member States and at the EU level.