Dr. Beth E. Richie, presented on two talk tracks: Abolition. Feminism. Now., and Teaching Toward Freedom from Behind the Bars: Last weekend, she joined leading scholar-activists reflecting on the often unrecognized genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist,…
The Department of Criminology, Law and Justice in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites applicants for 2 Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor positions, beginning January…
“… The articles contained within this virtual edition of Criminology and Criminal Justice have been selected for three reasons. Firstly, all are outstanding examples of scholarly work published within the journal in the…
“Criminology in the 21st century has gone global. It has increasingly been drawn to thinking and research that addresses criminological matters in international, transnational, and comparative registers. Issues at the intersection of criminology/criminal…
“Focus group interviews have seen explosive growth in recent years. They provide evaluations of social science, educational, and marketing projects by soliciting opinions from a number of participants on a given topic. However,…
“One of the reasons why there are many people with mental health issues in prisons is not because of deinstitutionalization or because such people belong in psychiatric hospitals…” To read the full article…
“Brody Ford, a 2020 UIC graduate in political science and communication, and Nicole Sroka, a 2021 UIC graduate in criminology, law and justice and communication, were among a team of 35 student-journalists from…
“Abstract Formerly incarcerated women face diverse challenges to re-entry, which include recovering from health illnesses and trauma to navigating various systems of stigma and surveillance. It is these multilevel challenges to reintegration that…
“Abstract Purpose This study sought to assess the effects of body-worn cameras (BWCs) on arrest in the Chicago Police Department (CPD). It builds on the small number of studies that have explored the…
Abstract: “Broken windows policing is traditionally understood as a tactic of governing public space, but in this essay, we show how this mode of policing also constitutes a war on domestic space. We…
“Domestic violence (DV) is a devastating social problem where 1 in 3 women and 1 in 10 men experience physical assault, stalking, or rape by an intimate partner across their lifetimes (Smith etal.,…
“University of Illinois Chicago, USA March 17, 2021 The Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago stands in solidarity with educators, students, and community leaders nationwide in denouncing the escalating…
“The purpose of the BGSA is to meet the academic, professional, and social needs of Black graduate students. Our organization recognizes that graduating with a master’s degree or Ph.D. is a top priority.…
“In partnership with the UIC Institute for the Humanities, the Chicago Humanities Festival is pleased to welcome Kaitlin Devaney as Predoctoral Research Fellow with CHF’s Neighborhood Initiative, a pilot program funded by the…
Abstract: “The movements for racial justice, health equity, and economic relief have been activated in the contentious and challenging climate of 2020, with COVID-19 and social protest. In this context, feminist scholars, anti-violence…
This event will be part of a series of three virtual readings held by Chicagoland Classics and will cover Aeschylus’s Greek tragedy trilogy, Oresteia. See our events page for more details and the…
“What sets abolitionists apart from others who want to improve the system is that they’re emphatically not reformers. Their plan is not to increase spending or community policing efforts, upgrade technology, or add…
The full story can be located on the ASA’s website here. Dr. Gurusami’s paper, “Motherwork Under the State: The Maternal Labor of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women” can be found and read at Oxford…
“We’re joined by Liat Ben-Moshe to discuss the largest instance of carceral abolition in modern American history: the closure, in the 20th century, of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals.” To read/listen to the…
Congratulations to Erin O’Callaghan on passing her dissertation proposal defense! Congratulations to Veronica Shepp on passing the departmental preliminary exams!
“Susila Gurusami is a sociologist of race, gender, punishment, and labor, with particular interests in carceral governance. She received her PhD in sociology from UCLA in 2017 and is a former University of…
“Erin O’Callaghan is a Phd Candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, US. Her dissertation will be a mixed methods study of survivors of sexual assault involving substance use at the time…
“In this panel, leading disability justice and abolitionist community organizers and thinkers – Mia Mingus, Talila “TL” Lewis, and Liat Ben-Moshe (moderated by Connie Wun)- discuss the importance of centering disability justice in…
“Rape is a major public health issue affecting an estimated 20% of American women in their lifetimes and costing billions of dollars each year due to harmful outcomes — like problem drinking, depression…
Professor Alana Gunn won a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Grant for the project “The Effects of Hyper-Surveillance on the Health and Wellbeing of Justice-Involved Families: A Structural Violence Perspective.”
Professor Sarah Ullman won a National Institutes of Health / National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Grant for the project, “Informal Social Network Dyads and Comorbid Problem Drinking and PTSD in Rape Victims”
“Along with calling for an end to police brutality, recent protests following the murder of George Floyd have brought attention to another national crisis that disproportionately affects people of color: mass incarceration. According to…
Prof Stovall “has advanced social justice through education research and exemplified the goal of linking education research to social justice.” Read the full story at Aera.Net.
“Disinvestment echoes through all services that schooling provides — what the activist and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore describes as “organized abandonment.” At the same time, schools have taken on a policing function, pathologizing interactions…
Department Chair Beth E. Richie has received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association’s Race, Gender, and Class Section. The award recognizes her significant contributions through research, teaching, and service. Congratulations…
Professor Susila Gurusami has won the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award from American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities. She has also received an honorable mention from ASA’s Family Section for her…
“Each year, celebrating the achievements of our social work graduates is a joyful and momentous occasion. In 2020, we continue this spirited tradition through a virtual event to be held Sunday, June 14…
“… unlike the healthcare professionals working in hospitals and other medical facilities, incarcerated healthcare workers are laboring under conditions of extreme coercion, risk, and absent even marginal pay or public recognition.” Read the full story at Medium.com
Congratulations to Kayla Martensen on the new and timely article, “Review of Carceral State Studies and Application” in Sociology Compass (https://buff.ly/3h8K3Eo) and to Alex Davis who has accepted an offer to join the faculty…
“It’s important to understand Chicago as reflective of the nation in terms of relationships between its black populations and police force,” he said. “The police force has been contracted as a paramilitary containment…
We are proud and thrilled to congratulate our CLJ PhD student award winners for next year: Almethia Franklin won the Dean’s Scholar Fellowship. Presented by the Dean of the Graduate College in recognition…
“Dear Students, Staff, and Faculty, In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an alarming increase in discriminatory incidents directed at Asians and Asian Americans across this country and across the…
More information, as well as a link to RSVP, can be found at the following links: Hofstra University: “Deviant” Pasts, Subversive Futures Decarcerating Disability, Abolishing Gender, and Decolonizing Our Future
“While the May commencement ceremonies have been postponed, we remain eager to celebrate this momentous occasion with our graduates. On May 16, UIC will host virtual ceremonies for individual colleges via MarchingOrder.com. The…
“In this feature, we ask organizers involved in mutual aid projects to share a little bit about their work. We understand mutual aid work as the part of social movement organizing that meets…
David Stovall, UIC professor of African American studies and Criminology, Law and Justice, is quoted in a story from The Trace that explores if there will be a reduction in Chicago’s gun violence…
‘Black Bodies at the Dangerous Intersection of Gender Violence and Mass Criminalization‘ has recently been published online in Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma. The article can be located at Taylor and Francis Online.…
“Sex-Positive Criminology proposes a new way to think about sexuality in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. Sex-positivity is framed as a humanizing approach to sexuality that supports the well-being of self and…
“High Impact Articles Social Problems, the official publication of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), is a quarterly journal that covers an extensive array of complex social concerns from race and…
UIC CLJ Professor Dave Stovall is quoted in this feature story on racial inequality in Chicago: ‘”Chicago is in a situation where those who historically have the least are left with even less,”…
Extending a big thank you to the Lyric Opera House for graciously providing tickets to Professor McCarty’s undergraduate class for “Dead Man Walking”, an opera focused on the death penalty. For many students,…
“Relatively little criminological research has focused on system-involved Latina girls. Thus, the intent of the proposed panel is to center the experiences of Latinas by considering the following questions: Why should we study…
Communities of color in Chicago are building powerful social movements and inspiring transformative justice projects to resist criminalization, deportation, and surveillance by the Chicago police, federal immigration authorities, and national security agencies. This…
Dr. Beth Richie will be presenting at the Detroit Justice Center’s “Square One Project” on October 11th at 11am (ET). The event will be moderated by Jeremy Travis, former NIJ Director and past president…
Dr. Susila Gurusami has won the 2019 SSSP (Society for the Study of Social Problems) Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award. The award is made in recognition of a paper that addresses contemporary issues of women’s justice…
“When University of Illinois at Chicago professor Dave Stovall heard about the NFL making a donation to a Chicago nonprofit that helps young boys in Englewood, he had his reservations. As a professor of African…
During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prison forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. All Our Trials explores the work of these activists who placed criminalized women,…
The WorldPost, a media platform partnership between the Berggruen Institute and The Washington Post, published an op-ed co-authored by Enda Erez, UIC professor of criminology, law and justice, and Peter Ibarra, UIC associate…
Drs. Edna Erez and Peter Ibarra have been featured in an online article on The Washington Post titled “Does surveilling alleged domestic abusers violate their rights?” Read the full article here.
Join the Social Justice Initiative, Witness for Peace, and La Voz de los de Abajo with Gaspar Sanchez in a panel discussion about the importance of land in local and global struggles against racism, sexist violence, colonialism, and displacement.
Following the publication of Andrea Ritchie's Invisible No More, join Chicago activists and UIC faculty and community activists working at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, policing, and criminalization for a dialogue about police...
John Hagedorn, UIC professor of Criminology, Law and Justice, is quoted in a NBCNews.com story about the FBI’s gang designation given to Juggalos, the fan group of “the horrorcore hip-hop duo” Insane Clown…
University of Illinois at Chicago Professor Sarah Ullman, Ph.D., will present her research on survivor help-seeking behaviors following sexual assault and support providers’ experiences providing help. The purpose of the talk is to…
In a three-part blog series, entitled “Winning Over the Other Side,” Professor John Hagedorn discusses how cognitive framing plays a role in the views that people cling to. In the final part of…
The Chicago Tribune reported that Laura Kunard, a CLJ alumna, was appointed as Deputy City Inspector General for Public Safety and tasked with overseeing Chicago’s efforts to reform its police department. Read the…
The CLJ Department is proud to announce that Criminology PhD student Chico Tillman is one of Ford’s 2017 Men of Courage award recipients. The honor amplifies the accomplishments of African American men with…
The Pew Research Center published a detailed article explaining how officers view recent high profile deadly encounters between police and African-Americans and how they feel it influences their job. The information in the…
The DOJ recently released the findings of their investigation into the practices of the CPD in a report that made national news. The main finding of the report suggested that the Chicago Police…
An article from Financial Times on the economic and opportunity gap between different areas of Chicago features comments on gang violence from John Hagedorn, UIC professor of criminology, law and justice, and unemployment…
A USA Today story about Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s newly announced plan to reduce Chicago violence cites findings from a January 2016 UIC Great Cities Institute report on youth joblessness in Chicago.
Dennis Rosenbaum, UIC professor emeritus of criminology, law and justice, is quoted in an NBCNews.com story on Donald Trump’s contention that police need to stop-and-frisk more often.
Associate Professor of social work, Amy Watson, was quoted in an article about the Justice Department’s findings regarding police treatment of people with a mental illness. The article was published by the Associated Press…
Matthew Lippman, UIC professor emeritus of criminology, law and justice, was recently interviewed on CBS 2’s (WBBM-TV/Channel 2) 10 p.m. newscast for a segment on the terror attacks in Brussels. Watch the interview.
The Annual Open House on November 4, 2015 held at the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice was a huge success! Four panel discussions included a variety of professionals and alumni who work…
UIC professor John Hagedorn’s research and new book connects the mafia in Chicago with street gangs and explores the history of gangs and violence. See the story featured in UIC news.
Dr. Richard H. Ward, Associate Vice President for Special Programs and Sponsored Research at the University of New Haven, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, February 17th. Dr. Ward served as Associate Chancellor for…
UIC Professor John Hagedorn, of the criminology, law, and justice department, is cited in a recent editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times. Read the article here.
Crain’s Chicago Business interviewed Beth Richie, director of the UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, about her appointment to a National Football League expert panel addressing issues of domestic violence and sexual…
Beth Richie, director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been named a senior adviser to the National Football League’s policy group addressing domestic violence and…
LAS student and UIC Flames soccer star, Jesus Torres, is profiled in a new article on DNAinfo.com Chicago. The feature details Torres’s journey to the United States across the US/Mexico border and his lifelong passion…
Dennis Rosenbaum, LAS professor of criminology, law and justice, was a featured expert on WTTW-TV/Channel 11’s “Chicago Tonight” during a panel discussion that examined whether law enforcement personnel should wear cameras while on…
In an interview with CBS 2 Chicago, Dennis Rosenbaum, UIC professor of criminology, law and justice, says that despite the recent media coverage of Chicago violence that crime rates in the city have decreased…
The Christian Science Monitor quotes Dennis Rosenbaum, UIC professor of criminology, law and justice, in an article on the Chicago Police Department’s use of data to assist the reduction of gang violence. In the article, Rosenbaum…
In a Chicago Sun-Times op-ed, John Hagedorn, UIC professor of criminology, law and justice, writes about factors that have lowered Chicago’s murder rate, but also what other city-led efforts are needed to reduce inequality and violence. Read…
Comments by Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice Dennis Rosenbaum are part of a recent Fox News Channel report on the decrease in homicide rates in many major cities during 2013.Watch the report here.
UIC Professor Dennis Rosenbaum, of the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice, is interviewed as part of an NPR report on the 2013 drop in homicide rates in major cities across the United States. Listen to…
In a MSN Real Estate article on the qualities of strong neighborhoods, Dennis Rosenbaum, UIC professor of criminology, law and justice, addresses the community’s role in preventing crime.
