Do faculty who taught through occupations in other cities (e.g. Portland, Chicago, LA), or who have developed materials for supporting students through horrors like those happening in MN, have resources to recommend? Assignments, readings, extracurricular plans, &c? Please share if you can!

Hi Laura, let me know if you want to chat about this at some point.

I use Worrall’s Crime Control In America: What Works? - I like it because it constantly returns to the evidence, or lack thereof, for various CJ areas.

Updated version. US handgun manufacturing and the Mexican Homicide Rate 1949-2020

Call for papers:

The Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime - one of the best conferences in this area - will be held in Berlin, Sep 26-27.

** Deadline for paper submissions: May 2 **

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The House Oversight Committee is trying to haul Boston Mayor Michelle Wu in to answer for the city’s stance on immigrants. They say that sanctuary jurisdictions make “Americans less safe”.

Mind you, Boston is one of the safest cities in the whole country.

Let’s examine that a bit. 1/

Just got this email from the NIJ, cancelling ALL posted notices of funding. This is THE main agency for criminology/criminal justice research in the country.

Funding for research on gun violence, violence against women, improving forensic science, and hate crimes ALL removed from the site.

In case anyone missed it:

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