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Stable Lives Safer Streets project has been awarded over 3 million in funding from the North-South Research Programme.  

The funding will facilitate 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 both Research into Policy Programmes and Practice project REPPP, School of Law, 51±¾É« and The Violence Prevention Lab, Queens University Belfast 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, The Violence Prevention Lab, 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 recruitment of children by organised crime groups. 
3. Effective strategies for making effective policy, programmes and practice work in communities.