The chancellor of the Riverside campus may appoint an advisory committee to assist in establishing research priorities. The university shall consult with the Department of Corrections, the Department of the Youth Authority, local law enforcement, probation, parole, and correctional agencies, and persons of experience or education in other higher education institutions in the field of corrections or related fields on the activities of the center. These projects shall be related to the center’s goals as specified in Section 5086 and may also include, but not be limited to, applied and theoretical research in the following areas:
(a) Methods of ensuring secure, cost-effective, safe, and gang-free incarceration in California’s correctional institutions, including approaches to ameliorate overcrowding in those institutions.
(b) New approaches to reduce inmate and ward recidivism and consequent victimization of California citizens.
(c) Correctional facility management, planning, design, and construction.
(d) New approaches to rehabilitate inmates and wards during and after incarceration and to integrate offenders into society after incarceration.
(e) New approaches to inmate and ward diagnosis, classification, and treatment.
(f) At-risk youth and street gang activity.
(g) Law enforcement.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 778, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1994.)
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