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In an article on Injustice Watch, Alison Redlich, faculty member in the Department of Criminality, Law and Society discussed defendants with attention deficit disorder and bipolar disorder.

BBC Sounds' Book of the Week is Malcolm Gladwell's Talking to Strangers; in a series where he discusses the work, he features Criminology, Law and Society's David Weisburd and his 'law of crime concentration,' where criminal activity is linked to location.

ABC's "Good Morning America" program profiled Karen Escobar, a criminology, law and society student who is balancing studies with family responsibilities, with help from the university and Generation Hope, an organization launched by Mason alumna Nicole Lynn Lewis.

Professor Allison Redlich of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, is the new President-elect of the American Psychology-Law Society. She has published more than 100 articles, books, and book chapters on topics including interrogations and confessions, guilty pleas, wrongful convictions and mental health courts.

The National Institutes of Health, through the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has awarded $15 million in grant funding over five year to establish George Mason University’s Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) Coordinating and Translation Center. Mason joins 11 research institutions named to the JCOIN.

Criminal justice practitioners, policy makers and researchers from around the globe gathered at Mason with the goal of better integrating science into criminal justice policy.

CLS student Kendra Coleman presented her research on solitary confinement at the OSCAR Celebration of Student Scholarship and Impact event in May.

CLS professor Danielle Rudes received the 2019 Sustained Mentoring Excellence Award from Mason's Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities and Research. She was honored at the Celebration of Student Scholarship and Impact on May 7th.