Gary LaFree is a Professor and Chair of the Criminology and Criminal Justice department at the University of Maryland,College Park,the Director of the Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center (MCRIC) and the Founding Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). His main areas of expertise are sociology,criminology,race and crime,cross-national comparative research and political violence and terrorism.
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research,development and evaluation agency of the United States Department of Justice.
Environmental criminology focuses on criminal patterns within particular built environments and analyzes the impacts of these external variables on people's cognitive behavior. It forms a part of criminology's Positivist School in that it applies the scientific method to examine the society that causes crime.
The Watts College of Public Service &Community Solutions is one of the 24 independent school units of Arizona State University. It is located at ASU's Downtown Phoenix Campus in Arizona. Founded in 1979,the college awards bachelors,masters,and doctoral degrees and is organized into four schools and 17 research centers. The programs are divided amongst the School of Social Work,the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice,the School of Public Affairs and the School of Community Resources and Development.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (UJC) of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring crime,criminal victimization,criminal offenders,victims of crime,correlates of crime,and the operation of criminal and civil justice systems at the federal,state,tribal,and local levels. Established on December 27,1979,BJS collects,analyzes,and publishes data relating to crime in the United States. The agency publishes data regarding statistics gathered from the roughly fifty-thousand agencies,offices,courts,and institutions that together comprise the U.S. justice system.
British Society of Criminology (BSC) is a leading international organizations aiming to further the interests and knowledge of both scholars and practitioners involved in any aspect of professional activity,teaching,research or public education related to crime,criminal behaviour and criminal justice systems in the United Kingdom and abroad. BSC is dedicated to promoting criminology and criminological research. Its official,peer-reviewed,scholarly journal is called Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJ) and is published through SAGE Publications.
Lawrence W. Sherman is an American experimental criminologist and police educator who is the founder of evidence-based policing.
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS) is a charity based in the United Kingdom focusing on crime and the criminal justice system. It seeks to bring together people involved in criminal justice through various means,including publications,conferences,and courses.
The Stockholm Prize in Criminology is an international prize in the field of criminology,established under the aegis of the Swedish Ministry of Justice. It has a permanent endowment in the trust of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology Foundation. The Stockholm Prize in Criminology is a distinguished part of the Stockholm Criminology Symposium,an annual event taking place during three days in June.
David L. Weisburd,is an Israeli/American criminologist who is well known for his research on crime and place,policing and white collar crime. Weisburd was the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Stockholm Prize in Criminology,and was awarded the Israel Prize in Social Work and Criminological Research in 2015,considered the state's highest honor. Weisburd is Distinguished Professor of Criminology,Law and Society at George Mason University. and Walter E. Meyer Professor Emeritus of Law and Criminal Justice in the Institute of Criminology of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law. At George Mason University,Weisburd was founder of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and is now its Executive Director. Weisburd also serves as Chief Science Advisor at the National Policing Institute in Washington,D.C. Weisburd was the founding editor of the Journal of Experimental Criminology,and is editor of the Cambridge Elements in Criminology Series.
Beth E. Richie is a professor of African American Studies,Sociology,Gender and Women's Studies,and Criminology,Law,and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she currently serves as head of the Criminology,Law,and Justice Department. From 2010 to 2016,Richie served as the director of the UIC Institute of Research on Race and Public Policy. In 2014,she was named a senior adviser to the National Football League Players Association Commission on domestic violence and sexual assault. Of her most notable awards,Richie has been awarded the Audre Lorde Legacy Award from the Union Institute,the Advocacy Award from the US Department of Health and Human Services,and the Visionary Award from the Violence Intervention Project. Her work has been supported by multiple foundations including Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,the Ford Foundation,the National Institute for Justice,and the National Institute of Corrections.
Jeremy Travis is an American academic administrator who served as the fourth president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice,a senior college of the City University of New York,starting on August 16,2004. On October 25,2016,Travis announced that he would step down from his position as president the next year. In August 2017,he joined the Arnold Ventures LLC as Senior Vice President of Criminal Justice.
Joan Ramme Petersilia was an American criminologist and the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School,as well as the faculty co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.
Penny Green is an Australian criminologist. She has been a Professor of Law and Globalisation and Head of the Department of Law at Queen Mary University of London since September 2014.
Karol Virginia Mason is an American attorney,government appointee,and academic administrator,serving as the fifth president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice since August 2017. Formerly,she was an Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Justice Programs in the Obama Administration.
For the American politician,see Nancy Rodriguez.
Faye S. Taxman is an American legal scholar who is a University Professor at George Mason University (2008–present) in Fairfax,Virginia,United States and the Founding Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!) at George Mason University. Her work is widely known for its influence on the redesign of aspects of the behavioral corrections system,specifically pertaining to the reduction of recidivism and mechanisms to achieve this such as offender rehabilitation,as showcased in her books Tools of the Trade:A Guide to Incorporating Science into Practice and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Community Corrections and Addiction Treatment. She has also been an Affiliate Professor with the College of Medicine at Howard University since 2012 and with Griffith University in Brisbane,Australia since 2013.
Public criminology is an approach to criminology that disseminates criminological research beyond academia to broader audiences,such as criminal justice practitioners and the general public. Public criminology is closely tied with “public sociology”,and draws on a long line of intellectuals engaging in public interventions related to crime and justice. Some forms of public criminology are conducted through methods such as classroom education,academic conferences,public lectures,“news-making criminology”,government hearings,newspapers,radio and television broadcasting and press releases. Advocates of public criminology argue that the energies of criminologists should be directed towards "conducting and disseminating research on crime,law,and deviance in dialogue with affected communities." Public criminologists focus on reshaping the image of the criminal and work with communities to find answers to pressing questions. Proponents of public criminology see it as potentially narrowing "the yawning gap between public perceptions and the best available scientific evidence on issues of public concern",a problem they see as especially pertinent to matters of crime and punishment.
Thomas Abt is an American author,crime researcher,and former government official specializing in evidence-informed approaches to reducing crime in urban areas. His book,Bleeding Out:The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets,was published in June 2019 by Basic Books.
Paul Mazerolle is a Canadian criminologist and university administrator. Born in Fredericton,New Brunswick,he currently serves as the president and vice-chancellor of the University of New Brunswick,and has previously served as an administrator at Griffith University in Queensland,Australia. Mazerolle has also been an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati's Department of Criminal Justice.
