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Community Colleges Take Another Look At Sex Offender Policies

SEATTLE Sex offenders who want to go to college in Washington have been required to share their criminal past with campus officials since 1998, but recent high profile news stories and increasing enrollments have some colleges reassessing their notification policy.

July 25, 2006

Clemson Student’s Death Causes Reexamination of Campus Safety

The arrest of a suspect in the murder of Clemson student Tiffany Maries Souers has brought relief to the university community. However, Gail DiSabatino, Clemson’s vice president of student affairs, says the case has led some people to rethink the university’s safety measures.

June 15, 2006

Intellectual Expansion Through International Learning

I can remember seeing a large paper map of the world in grade school. It showed the United States as a large body of land that seemed to…

May 17, 2006

John Jay College to Train Dominican Republic’s Police Force

Dr. Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, together with the Secretary…

November 14, 2005

North Carolina Central University To Establish Institute for Homeland Security

North Carolina Central University announced in October that it will establish an Institute…

November 2, 2005

Erasmus University Rotterdam Honors Carla del Ponte

Carla del Ponte, the Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague will…

October 12, 2005

Toledo Groups Plan Rally to Counter Neo-Nazi March

Twenty educational, religious and community groups have organized a rally they hope will take the steam out of a neo-Nazi march…

October 11, 2005

North Carolina Central University to Establish Institute for Homeland Security

North Carolina Central University announced this week that it will establish an Institute for Homeland Security and…

October 11, 2005

Study: Gang Injunctions Provide Short-term Relief to Communities

Gang injunctions provide short-term benefits, including calming residents’ fear of confrontations with gang members…

September 28, 2005

A Criminal State of Affairs

A Criminal State of AffairsIn 2002, the three states with the highest rates of incarceration were Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Texas ranks No. 3 in spending on prisons, while it ranked 20th for education spending. It ranks No. 1 in putting citizens to death. Texas has an African-American population of 11 percent, and an African-American […]

February 23, 2005

LAW: James Forman Jr.

LAWCommitted To the CauseJames Forman Jr. Title: Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law CenterEducation: J.D., Yale Law School; B.A., Brown UniversityAge: 37 It’s not surprising that James Forman Jr. has devoted himself to the pursuit of social justice. As the son of parents who met as civil rights activists, Forman recalls meeting civil rights […]

January 12, 2005

Faculty & Staff

UPenn’s Criminology Department Is a First For an Ivy League

UPenn’s Criminology Department Is a First For an Ivy LeaguePHILADELPHIAThe University of Pennsylvania has become the first Ivy League institution to establish a criminology department. Dr. Lawrence W. Sherman, director of Penn’s Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, will chair the new department in the School of […]

July 16, 2004

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