ISAC and Boise State: Playing to our Strengths to Inform Policy and Practice in Idaho

• In Event: Learning about Statistical Analysis Centers: Alt-Academic Data, Collaboration, and Careers

Abstract

The Idaho Statistical Analysis Center (ISAC) and the Department of Criminal Justice at Boise State University’s School of Public Service have a long history of working together to advance knowledge, policy, and practice in Idaho’s justice system. The two entities have worked collaboratively on large research projects, serve on many of the same state-level working groups and committees, and leverage each other’s strengths to inform and improve their own work. Additionally, both past and present ISAC staffers have simultaneously served as professors at Boise State. This session will detail the relationship between ISAC and Boise State, highlight examples of how the work being done by both entities compliments the other, and demonstrate how applied and academic researchers can work together to improve state- and local-level justice system policy and practice.

Author

• Thomas Strauss, Idaho Statistical Analysis Center (ISAC)