UMSL - Dept of Criminology and Criminal Justice

PhD student Alessandra Early is on the market. She has won numerous awards for her written work and has published in Crime and Delinquency.

Congratulations to Myranda Hogg. She is a second year MA student and was awarded the Longinette Scholarship given to students who serve the community.

Ben Hamilton is on the job market. He studies criminological theory and has published widely on rational choice. He is supervised by Kyle Thomas. He has extensive teaching experience, particularly in statistics. He has published recent articles in JQC.

It is job market time! Andrea Giuffre studies punishment, inequalities, and community corrections. She has published qualitative and quantitative studies in several journals, including Criminology. She has online teaching skills and has taught criminological theory. She is supervised by Beth Huebner.

Professor Slocum is leading a project examining how people with a wide range of perspectives and experiences think about community safety in St. Louis County. Please consider helping us out by taking a brief survey on the meaning of public safety and sharing the survey with others. The survey, which is for people 18 and older who live, work, or go to school in St. Louis County, takes 5 – 7 minutes and it contains questions about what it means for a community to be safe as well as some questions about demographics and prior experiences. The survey can be accessed at the link below.
https://bit.ly/whatispublicsafety

Professor Slocum is leading a project examining how people with a wide range of perspectives and experiences think about community safety in St. Louis County. Please consider helping us out by taking a brief survey on the meaning of public safety and sharing the survey with others. The survey, which is for people 18 and older who live, work, or go to school in St. Louis County, takes 5 – 7 minutes and it contains questions about what it means for a community to be safe as well as some questions about demographics and prior experiences. The survey can be accessed at the link below.

https://bit.ly/whatispublicsafety

Welcome back to UMSL. We had a great time at our new PhD student orientation.

What are you looking forward to this fall?

Congratulations to Lauren Morgan and Andrea Giuffre on earning the Huber Dissertation Fellowship!

Doctoral candidates Ernesto Lopez, Bobby Boxerman do groundwork for newsmaking Council on Criminal Justice report*

UMSL Daily - August 8, 2022

The latest Council on Criminal Justice report from University of Missouri–St. Louis Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Rosenfeld on the state crime in the first half of 2022 again generated national headlines over the past two weeks.

Doctoral candidates Ernesto Lopez, Bobby Boxerman do groundwork for newsmaking Council on Criminal Justice report - UMSL Daily They have compiled crime data for the ongoing study of "Pandemic, Social Unrest, and Crime in U.S. Cities" with Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Rosenfeld.

Join the UMSL Faculty for a baseball game. UMSL night at the ballpark is September 16th!

Night at the Ballpark 2022 Alumni Tickets Friday, September 16, 2022 Busch Stadium - Enter at Cunningham Corner Gate 4 - up one level 7:15 p.m. - First Pitch Cincinnati Reds vs. St. Louis Cardinals www.umslalumni.org/NAB2022

Congratulations to Dr. Cherrell Green! Her project considers examining resiliency among Black men exposed to violence. Her chairperson is Professor Lee Slocum and is joined by Professors Jody Miller, Stephanie DiPietro, and Heidi Grundetjern.

She joins Justice System Partners.

Congrats to Dr. Luis Torres on his successful dissertation defense. His work is entitled An examination of the effects of workgroup characteristics on criminal case process and case outcomes. His dissertation is chaired by Professor Lee Slocum and members Marisa Omori, Beth Huebner, and Andres Rengifo. He moves on to Temple University this Fall!