Accolades

Talley Bettens, a doctoral student in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, has received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Institute of Justice to support her dissertation research on interrogation practices and false confessions in high school misconduct cases.

The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences awarded Assistant Professor Daniela Oramas Mora the 2024 Michael C. Braswell/Routledge Outstanding Dissertation Award.

The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences awarded Assistant Professor Jin R. Lee the 2024 New Scholar Award.

The American Society of Criminology’s Division of Cybercrime awarded Assistant Professor Jin R. Lee the Outstanding Peer Reviewed Publication Award.

The American Society of Criminology’s Division of Victimology awarded Assistant Professor Yasemin Irvin-Erickson the Faculty Teacher of the Year Award.

Associate Professors Sue-Ming Yang and Charlotte Gill, along with doctoral students Yi-Fang Lu, Muneeba Azam, and L. Cait Kanewske, received the American Society of Criminology's Division of Experimental Criminology award for Outstanding Experimental Field Trial.

Congratulations to criminology, law and society doctoral student Talley Bettens! She has received a 2024 Mentoring Excellence Award from Mason's Office of Scholarship, Creative Activities, and Research (OSCAR).

Jin R. Lee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University, has been appointed to serve on the Committee on Cybercrime Classification and Measurement by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).

The assistant professor of Criminology, Law and Society will be honored at a March 7 event in Richmond, with 11 other state educators recognized as outstanding faculty by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.