November 1, 2015
The Racial Democracy and Criminal Justice Network’s Carla Shedd was featured on the Chris Hayes Show October 28th, 2015. Shedd, a Columbia Unviersity assistant professor and author of “Unequal City”, had the privilege of sharing her insight regarding law enforcement practices within school systems. To view the whole segment, please visit Learn More
There will be another Teaching Tolerance Forum held on Nobember 10, 2015 at 6:30 PM. The topic will focus on Understanding the Justice System. Please feel free to join in on the disucssion as the event is free and open to the public. Speakers will include Judge Kimberly Cocroft (Franklin County Court of Common Pleas),... Learn More
October 12, 2015
The 11th annual Crime and Justice Summer Research Institute will be held summer 2016 at Rutgers University- Newark. Organized by Jody Miller and Rod Brunson, the institute is designed to promote successful research projects and careers among faculty from underrepresented groups working in areas of crime and criminal justice. During the institute, each participant will complete an ongoing project... Learn More
October 11, 2015
Congratulations to SRI Fellow CheyOnna Sewell for being awarded a graduate research fellowship with the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics. We wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors. Learn More
July 5, 2015
Congratulations to SRI Fellow Randol Contreras for winning the American Sociological Society’s Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award for his book The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream (University of California Press). Learn More
April 22, 2015
If you have not already done so, please mark your calendars for the 2015 RDCJN Workshop scheduled for July 23-24, 2015. The 2015 Workshop will mark the 10thAnniversary of the Crime and Justice Summer Research Institute, the final year of Ohio State University’s Criminal Research Center housing and hosting the RDCJN, and the start of... Learn More
Related to the move of the RDCJN to Rutgers, Jody Miller and Rod Brunson (Rutger’s Coordinators of the RDCJN) and Ruth Peterson (retiring Coordinator of the RDCJN) submitted a “Collaborative” grant proposal to the National Science Foundation’s Sociology and Law and Social Sciences’ programs in January. In addition to requesting support for the SRI and... Learn More
Deadly Injustice, the volume on Trayvon Martin, was delieved to press in February, and will be available for purchase this November. If you have not yet heard, CONGRATULATIONS!!! are in order to Devon Johnson, Patricia Warren, and Amy Farrell who conceived of and delivered to New York University Press the 6th RDCJN volume: Deadly Injustice: Race,... Learn More
April 15, 2017
Ohio State University alum Ramiro Martinez will be recognized during the OSU College of Arts and Sciences “Honoring Excellence” event on Friday evening April 21, 2017 for his “significant commitments and contributions” in establishing the Ramiro Martinez Jr., PhD Endowed Dissertation Fund. Congratulations Ramiro for finding yet another way to assist individuals in the pipeline... Learn More
Numerous RDCJN members published new books during 2016 and 2017. CONGRATULATIONS to: John Eason, Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Anthony Hatch, Patrisia Macias-Rojas, Ramiro Martinez, Keesha Middlemass, Forrest Stuart, Robert Vargas, and Norm White and Christine Martin. Learn More
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An interactive workshop designed to fill you in on what's required for graduation and the May 15 ceremony
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Find out how to get a BA or BS/MA joint degree in Criminal Justice
