Center For Criminology & Public Policy, India

About Center For Criminology & Public Policy, India

The Center For Criminology & Public Policy is India's first-of-its-kind research and knowledge agency on crime and criminal justice. We seek to reduce crime and promote justice by fostering the use of evidence-based criminological research in policymaking and practice. The founding premise behind the center is this: if criminology is to survive and thrive, it can only do so by contributing to a better politics of crime. This means, expanding the influence of criminological knowledge in the policy-making spheres, and reclaiming criminology's purpose for the public. The main goal of the Center is to enhance the understanding of costs, benefits, and consequences of criminal justice policies among those responsible for governmental actions. Our scholarship is driven by empirical, evidence-based evaluation of crime and its control.