Research & Consultation at CJI

Grounded in Research. Built for Practice.

Good policy, effective programs, and defensible practice require an evidence foundation. CJI’s research and consultation services translate scholarship into tools that organizations, agencies, and legal professionals can actually use.

Explore the Work

  • Literature Reviews & Evidence Synthesis – white papers, executive summaries, and evidence synthesis on trauma, victimology, criminal justice response, and survivor-centered practice.
  • Program Evaluation – needs assessment, design, implementation, and outcome assessment for victim services and criminal justice programs.
  • Policy Analysis – recommendations grounded in current research and field experience.
  • Grant Support – background research, needs statements, and logic model or framework development.
  • Victimology & Victim Behavior – how victimization affects decision-making, disclosure, and engagement with systems meant to help.
  • Domestic Violence, Interpersonal Violence, and Sexual Assault Research – grounded in direct advocacy experience across community-based and systems-based settings.
  • Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Violence Prevention – how law enforcement, legal, clinical, and victim services partners coordinate response and prevention efforts.
  • AI in Violence Prevention – trauma-informed critique of AI-driven tools, centering survivor experience in how these technologies are developed and deployed.
  • Survivor-Centered & Offender-Focused Research Methodology – research approaches that hold both perspectives together rather than treating them as competing frameworks.

Research does more when it reaches the people who put it into practice. Field Notes is my way of turning what I learn into tools that practitioners and survivors can use. Some posts explain how current research applies to everyday work. Others share updates from my own projects, like an upcoming piece about how AI can help prevent violence. This is how I make sure the work stays useful for the people it’s meant to help.

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Research engagements are scoped individually. Contact CJI with a brief description of your project or question, and Dr. Clark will respond within two business days to discuss fit and next steps.

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