The Justice Collaboratory (The JC) is a membership-based social science research center at Yale Law School that brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and researchers at Yale and beyond to cooperatively work toward a theory-driven, evidence-informed justice system. Our work is centered around the criminal legal system, but is more broadly concerned with the goal of building vibrant communities. We believe that in the long-term addressing issues of social order requires community engagement and centeredness.