american society of criminology annual meeting

On Wednesday, November 14 at 2pm, Director of RTI's Center for Justice, Safety and Resilience Pam Lattimore will be receiving the Joan McCord Award for Experimental Criminology. This year's meeting centers around a theme of 'Institutions, Cultures and Crime.' This year’s meeting, held in New Orleans, was attended by more than 4,600 individuals from around the world.Many RTI experts will be attending this year's American Socety of Criminology (ASC) meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The society's objectives are to encourage the exchange, in a multidisciplinary setting, of those engaged in research, teaching, and practice so as to foster criminological scholarship, and to serve as a forum for the dissemination of criminological knowledge. The annual meeting is the primary national conference for the academic discipline of criminology and criminal justice. The American Society of Criminology is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency. News and World Report ranked the doctoral program in criminology and criminal justice among the top 20 programs in the United States. The UNO School of Criminology and Criminal Justice is a nationally recognized leader in criminological research and education. Many potential graduate students attended the reception. The reception provided a forum to showcase the research and educational opportunities available at UNO. This reception was one of several hosted by nationally recognized criminology and criminal justice programs. In addition, the School hosted a reception which was attended by more than 200 people. Fifteen faculty members, nineteen graduate students, and three staff members from the UNO School of Criminology and Criminal Justice attended and presented research at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology in late November 2016. Faculty and graduate students from the School were presenters or co-presenters on 34 individual presentations during the conference, and also attended and participated in several roundtable presentations, numerous business meetings, and professional workgroups held at the annual meeting.įaculty and staff members presenting individual papers were: Amy Anderson, Todd Armstrong, Pauline Brennan, Samantha Clinkinberd, Anne Hobbs, Colleen Kadleck, Johanna Peterson, Lisa Sample, Joseph Schwartz, Ryan Spohn, Benjamin Steiner, Michael Walker, William Wakefield, and Emily Wright.ĭoctoral students presenting individual papers were: Rita Augustyn, Calli Cain, Joselyne Chenane, Brooke Cooley, Jared Ellison, Ebonie Epinger, Julia Fuller, Julie Garman, Marijana Kotlaja, Michael Logan, Hillary McNeel, Sara Moore, Danielle Slakoff, Starr Solomon, Bradon Valgardson, and Steven Windisch.

American society of criminology annual meeting