Accolades

The American Society of Criminology’s Division of Experimental Criminology awarded Professor Christopher Koper the 2025 Jerry Lee Lifetime Achievement Award.

The American Society of Criminology’s Academy of Experimental Criminology awarded Distinguished University Professor Cynthia Lum the 2025 Joan McCord Award.

Data mining website ScholarGPS ranked David Weisburd, Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Executive Director of Mason's Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, seventh overall in lifetime research achievement in the areas of criminology and criminal justice.

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).