Roundtable: Developing and Sustaining Productive Research Partnerships with Agencies: Experiences from the Smart Policing Initiative

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

For the last 15 years, a key tenet of the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Smart Policing Initiative (SPI) has been for meaningful inclusion of a research partner in the development, implementation, and evaluation of an SPI award. Research partners on SPI not only develop a rigorous evaluation for a police agency’s SPI initiative but have also utilized action research techniques to help integrate evidence-based practices into agencies across the country. Some agencies have long-standing research partnership that have benefited their agency and the greater criminal justice community on effective practice.

This roundtable would draw on the experiences of current and previous SPI research partners to discuss the challenges and opportunities that research partners and police agencies face when developing productive long-term relationships. CNA, the SPI training and technical assistance (TTA) provider, hopes to leverage the discussions and insights at this roundtable for a future public TTA product in support of police agencies attempting to create their own research partnership.

Attendees for this roundtable include current and past research partners for SPI sites as well as those interested in the development of research partnerships with agencies.

Sub Unit

• Area XIV. Roundtables

Chair

• Kenneth J. Novak, CNA Corporation

Discussants

• Michael White, Arizona State University

• Jessica Herbert, IDEA Analytics

• Michael R. Smith, University of Texas at San Antonio

• Peter B. Wood, Eastern Michigan University

• Cory P. Haberman, University of Cincinnati

• Rob Guerette, Florida International University

• Jessica Huff, University of Cincinnati

Organized by a Division or external group?

Division of Policing