Posts by Cynthia Lum

The Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and its faculty and graduate students are housed in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University, boasting a top ten-ranked PHD program which is #1 in the state of Virginia. To learn more about our graduate programs, join us for an information session below or…

The Fall 2025 Translational Criminology Magazine has now been released!  Featuring: Reimagining American Policing: Making Communities Safer and Stronger JAMES J. NOLAN, NATASHA C. PRATT-HARRIS, KEVIN DANIELS, PAUL C. ARCHIBALD, HENRY H. BROWNSTEIN, KIMBERLY GLANVILLE, AND RAIANA DAVIS Ten Benchmarks for Evidence-Based Policing CYNTHIA LUM AND CHRISTOPHER S. KOPER The National Case Closed Project: Translating Effective…

The American Society of Evidence-Based Policing has opened its call for papers for its 2026 ASEBP Conference at American University (May 20–22, 2026). ASEBP is accepting lightning talks, thematic panels, individual papers, posters, and roundtables. The conference is a great chance for both practitioners and graduate students to present their work. Submit your abstract by…

PRESS RELEASE:  Crime Prevention for Social Impact and Social Justice The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 714 Special Editors: Brandon C. Welsh and Eric L. Piza

Hot Off the Press: The Spring 2025 Translational Criminology Magazine, highlighting our Congressional Briefing on Preventing Gun Violence is now available!

The 2025 CEBCP Congressional Briefing on “Preventing Gun Violence,” featuring many of the nation’s top experts on the topic, was held on February 25, 2025 at the Dirksen Senate Building. View videos from the briefing here.

David Weisburd, John MacDonald, and Anthony Braga speak on the state of policing research and Criminology at the annual George L. Kelling Lecture at the Manhattan Institute. Watch their discussion here.

The Fall 2024 issue of Translational Criminology, the official magazine of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy has now been published! FEATURING: Public Criminology: Charting the Course from Evidence to Action BY NANCY LA VIGNE Equity in Imprisonment Rates Does Not Equate to Justice BY THADDEUS L. JOHNSON, WILLIAM J. SABOL, & NATASHA N. JOHNSON…

Associate Professors Sue-Ming Yang and Charlotte Gill, along with doctoral students Yi-Fang Lu, Muneeba Azam, and L. Cait Kanewske, are the recipients of the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Experimental Criminology 2024 Award for Outstanding Experimental Field Trial. Yang and Gill partnered with the Roanoke County Police Department to evaluate a police-clinician co-responder program…

The 2024 CEBCP Symposium was a huge success! Thank you for all who participated and we look forward to seeing you at the next CEBCP event. For more information about the 2024 symposium, go to  https://cebcp.org/cebcp-symposium-2024/.