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/.

Translational Criminology is the official magazine of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy and is published twice a year. TC Magazine seeks to advance the overall goal of the CEBCP by showcasing examples of how research is converted into criminal justice practice. In 2023, TC Magazine transitioned to a full editorial team and more content.…

Professor David Weisburd has been elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Read more about this scientific honor here. Albert Einstein’s Sculpture in the Academy’s Building (Photo: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities)

SPECIAL ISSUE ON GUN VIOLENCECall for Papers for 2024 Special Issue forCriminology & Public PolicyDeadline: January 31, 2024 To mark the final issue of their term (Issue 4, 2024), the editors-in-chief of the American Society of Criminology’s flagship policy journal announce a special issue on gun violence. To address this severe and growing threat to…

CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH ON POLICING PRACTICE AND POLICYCall for Papers for 2024 Special Issue forCriminology & Public PolicyDeadline: December 31, 2023 To mark the penultimate issue of their term (Issue 3, 2024), the editors-in-chief of the American Society of Criminology’s flagship policy journal Criminology & Public Policy announce a Call for Papers for a special issue on…

George Mason University’s Department of Criminology, Law and Society invites applicants for two full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to start in August 2024. For more information, see the advertisement here.

Former members of The Task Force on 21st Century Policing, convened by President Obama in 2014, have released a Renewed Call to Action with eight recommendations and action steps that focus on police accountability, transparency, culture, the development of national standards, and community policing. The former members were convened by Laurie Robinson (Senior Fellow and…

April 18, 2023 / By Kristen Koehler, Colleen Kearney Rich(View the original post here) At a time when policing in the United States is facing major challenges, George Mason University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy is beginning a first-of-its-kind multi-method longitudinal study of a cohort of police officers to understand how officers progress through their…