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Yale Law Professor James Forman Jr. visited Mason on October 25 to deliver the inaugural Roger Wilkins Lecture on the topic "Locking Up Our Own: Race, Class and the Politics of Mass Incarceration."

The Criminology, Law and Society Graduate Student Association is hosting a Trivia Night fundraiser on October 18th! Come test your general and criminological knowledge, earn prizes, and support a great cause.

CLS professors Cynthia Lum and Chris Koper will be the new editors of the journal Criminology & Public Policy. The journal's objective is to strengthen the role of research in the formulation of crime and justice policy by publishing empirically based, policy-focused articles.

Two Criminology, Law and Society professors have been recognized by the American Society of Criminology. Danielle Rudes has received the 2018 Teaching Award and Faye Taxman was named an ASC Fellow.

For the second year in a row, undergraduate, graduate, and faculty researchers from the Department of Criminology, Law and Society conducted interviews and made observations with staff and inmates working and living in solitary confinement.

For the past 10 years, the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy has served as an informational bridge to practitioners and the policy community.

The Department of Criminology, Law and Society is delighted to welcome three assistant professors to the tenure-track faculty this fall!

Criminology, Law and Society major Sarah Kaminski, guard on the Mason Women's Basketball team, interned with the State Department this summer.

Megan Stoltz, doctoral student in the Criminology, Law and Society Department, has received a Presidential Scholar Fellowship from the Provost Office to support her summer research on police effectiveness.

CLS professor Allison Redlich worked with researchers from the Navajo Nation-serving Diné College in Arizona during their 10-week stay at Mason’s Criminal Investigations Network Analysis Center (CINA). The scholars pursued cutting-edge research on the public’s response to mass shooting with the goal of stopping copycat/related acts of violence.