Victims of Crime

Meeting with directors of the Crisis Response Center (988 line) to discuss training on ERPO for their counselors.

The research team advanced the Restorative Justice Research Community (RJRC) Fellows project by hosting the 7th roundtable focus group event in February 2024 on the topic of “restorative justice and participatory action research.”

The NCORJ funded two speakers to participate in a one-day panel discussion entitled "Justice Through a Queer Lens: The Criminal Legal System, Restorative Justice, and Liberation," hosted by the University of California San Francisco Law School. The panel featured LGBTQ+ restorative and transformative justice practitioners grappling with ideas of justice, the criminal legal system, transformation and restorative justice from queer perspectives.

In recent years, communities across the country have experienced substantial increases in gun violence. While some cities have made progress in reducing these crimes, pressing concerns remain for residents, community and business leaders, law enforcement and city officials, prosecutors, public health providers, and more. In response to these concerns, the United States Department of Justice launched the Violent Crime Reduction Roadmap (Roadmap).

12/13/2023: Interview with Heather Meredith (Probation and Parole Supervisor, Bowling Green Probation and Parole Office) to discuss trends they are seeing in domestic violence. (1 person representing 1 agency). Â

12/15/2023: Meeting with Erica Hargis (Director, Probation and Parole, DOC), Kirk Gausepohl (Assistant Director, Probation and Parole, DOC) to discuss key takeaways from meetings with probation offices so far. (2 people representing 1 agency).Â

12/15/2023: CSG Justice Center staff attended the Interim Joint Judiciary Committee meeting made up of 26 Senators and Representatives to listen to presentation on the Safer Kentucky Act (26 people, representing 2 agencies).Â

12/13/2023: Meeting with Cassie Chambers Armstrong (State Senator (D) District 19) and Jennifer Tuvlin (Director, Development Department, School of Law, University of Louisville) to introduce Kentucky’s JRI project and learn more about the Senator’s research on legal outcomes of domestic violence survivors in rural vs urban settings. (2 people representing 1 agency).Â

12/13/2023: Focus group with 14 probation and parole officers in the Bowling Green office to better understand the trends they are seeing among their clients. (14 people representing 1 agency).Â

11/14/23: Focus group with Kevin Casey (Probation and Parole District 9, Officer), Lauren Jordan (Probation and Parole District 9, Officer), Brittany Brown (Probation and Parole District 9, Officer), Jessical Veil (Probation and Parole District 9, Officer), Lauren Morgan (Probation and Parole District 9, Officer), Brandon Summers (Probation and Parole District 9, Officer), Laiden Hutcheson (Probation and Parole District 9, Officer) in Lexington, KY to discuss how IPV and DV impact their work. Â