Centers & Labs

The School of Criminal Justice, through the Michigan Justice Statistics Center, serves as the Statistical Analysis Center (MI-SAC) for the State of Michigan.  The mission of the Center is to advance knowledge about crime and justice issues in the state of Michigan while also informing policy and practice. 

The Police Research Lab (PRL) is a working group of doctoral students and faculty in the School of Criminal Justice (SCJ) at Michigan State University (MSU) that conducts research related to policing and police officers.

The Police Staffing Observatory (PSO) is a global collaborative of academics, scholars, practitioners and students working with Michigan State University to promote evidence-based police workforce research, strategy and operations.