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Charlotte Gill, assistant professor of Criminology, Law and Society, has received the 2019 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Virginia State Council of Higher Education for her superior accomplishments in teaching, research and public service.

Andrew Novak, term assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, led a study abroad program to Germany and Austria during which students learned about the crimes of the Nazi Party and efforts at restitution and justice after World War II.

A research study conducted by Beidi Dong, assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, found that school suspension is more likely to predict youth drug use than police arrests. ​

With a grant from the National Science Foundation, Criminology, Law and Society professor Christopher Koper is spearheading a project to examine the root causes of mass violence.

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.