The Police Research Group is a new organization for students and faculty interested in conducting and using high-quality research on policing. Goals of the group include conducting and disseminating research that is useful for practical as well as scholarly purposes and increasing the visibility of police research in relevant academic disciplines and among policy makers and practitioners.

Criminology, Law and Society graduate students are helping translate research into practice by writing research updates in Perspectives, the journal of the American Probation and Parole Association. Doctoral students Stephanie Ainsworth and Jennifer Lerch wrote the inaugural article, which focuses on cognitive-behavioral therapy programs for higher-risk offenders.

Cochrane at Mason Director Catherine Gallagher is quoted in the Wall Street Journal discussing the difficulties capturing prisoner data and offers a solution for how to potentially include it in national surveys. Click the link to read the entire article.

The annual Celebration of Scholarship is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 12, from 4:30 - 6:00 pm in the Mason Hall Atrium.

The Department of Criminology, Law and Society is pleased to announce the creation of a new Policy & Practice concentration in the Master's Degree program, which is designed for professional students who wish to pursue careers in justice and security organizations.

When one thinks of an internship one might envision balancing cups of Starbucks coffee, answering telephones, or stuffing envelopes, but, for Anna Glaeser, her experience was anything but that.

Faye Taxman, University Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, was interviewed by Len Sipes on the DC Public Safety Radio Show on the implementation of evidence-based practices in community corrections. Her interview covered the issues related to evidence-based practices in pretrial, probation and parole agencies.

Catherine Gallagher, director of the Cochrane Collaboration College for Policy at George Mason University and faculty member in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, was the guest on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, where she was interviewed regarding gangs.

Professors Faye Taxman and Danielle Rudes of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society published an op-ed in The Free Lance-Star in April titled "Far better ways to fight crime than imprisonment." The article discusses how the primary mechanism for crime fighting in the United States for the last 30 years has focused on building and expanding the capacity of our prison systems which translates into a runaway incarceration system that does not deter criminal behavior.

Recent research by David Weisburd, Cody Telep and Brian Lawton of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society is discussed in a New York Times article following the publication of a new report on NYPD "stop and frisk" tactics.