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Stable Lives Safer Streets project has been awarded over €3million in funding from the Higher Education Authority's North-South Research Programme (2022-2026).  

The funding has facilitated the establishment of the Stable Lives Safer Streets All Ireland Policy-led Research hub.

The hub builds on previous policy-led research in Youth Crime by the Research into Policy, Programmes, and Practice project (REPPP), Queens University Belfast (QUB) and in Implementation Science by the Centre for Effective Services (CES). 

The hub will provide evidence about accessible, practical approaches to understanding and responding to youth crime, criminal exploitation, and community safety and will enable a sustainable cross-border approach for evidence building and its use in developing good policy and practice.

The Stable Lives Safer Streets project is led by Dr Catherine Naughton, REPPP, School of Law, UL, in partnership with Dr Colm Walsh, QUB and CES. Initial projects include:

  1. Support for cross-border policy making in youth crime: increased insights into the prevalence and nature of youth crime and what works to help communities engage and support vulnerable young people.
  2. Child Criminal Exploitation: Identifying ways to disrupt the recruitment of children by organised crime groups.
  3. Effective strategies for making effective policy, programmes and practice work in communities.

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