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The Criminal Justice Research Center is pleased to announce a $3,000 seed grant has been awarded to Kayla Herbell, PhD of The Ohio State University College of Nursing to support her research…
On Friday, Nov 3rd, the Criminal Justice Research Center hosted guest speakers Director Rena Shak and her team from the Office of Violence Prevention (OVP) for the City of Columbus, along with…
As the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Department of Sociology at The Ohio State University (OSU) in autumn 2022 moves forward, three alumni of the PhD program (Leesa Kern 1999,…
Reducing Lethal Violence by the Police: Insights from Organizational Accident Theory
Video of the 31st Annual Reckless-Dinitz Lecture held on 4/7/22…
Due to the current public health declarations, all Criminal Justice Research Center events have been either cancelled or postponed. Please check back for updates.
We regret to announce that due to the Ohio State University's most recent decisions and recommendations pertaining to COVID-19, that the Criminal Justice Research Center will be canceling this…
Ohio's recidivism rate has fallen by 20% over the past decade. Paul Bellair, the Director of the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State, explains the life factors that contribute…
Professor Randy Roth, CJRC affiliate, co-director and one of the founders of the Historical Violence Database which is maintined at the Criminal Justice Research Center was recently featured in…
Paul Bellair, professor of sociology, has been named director of the Criminal Justice Research Center, effective June 1, 2019, through June 20, 2023, pending approval by the Board of Trustees.
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Dr. Ryan King, professor of sociology and Associate Director of the Criminal Justice Research Center (CJRC), has been named chair of the Department of Sociology, effective June 1, 2019 for a term…
Dr. C. Ron Huff, passed away on March 31, 2019 after battling pancreatic cancer. A long-time professor in Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine and at the John Glenn…
The Ohio State University lead by Rebecca Jackson and colleagues have been awarded a $65.9M NIH grant to address the opioid crisis in Ohio. US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II…
Twenty-five years after they participated in one of the world’s most atrocious instances of mass violence, their experiences in Rwanda show that peace and reconciliation are possible. What happens…
Your generous support of the CJRC in 2018 helped us to continue our active programming in the criminal justice arena. Some examples of your support at work includes:
The tour of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation began with the laboratory division where we saw numerous units including drug chemistry, DNA, CODIS, firearms, latent print, handwriting analysis,…
The New Asylum
by Jessica Arrasmith,
Student Intern (Franklin County Sheriff’s Office)
Starting in the fall…
Interested in learning how CJRC’s undergraduate research internship program benefits students? A…
Over the last several months, the Columbus Police Department (CPD) has hosted a student from The Ohio State University who is majoring in biology with a minor in criminology. The student was…