July 11, 2024More than three dozen experts in crime and justice gathered at Mason Square where they exchanged ideas with more than 400 registrants on a variety of topics, including alternatives to criminal justice systems, community-based violence prevention, stop-question-and-frisk policies, and improving the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers.
September 26, 2023Cynthia Lum, Distinguished Ä¢¹½AV Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and director of George Mason Ä¢¹½AV’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, has been named the 2023 Distinguished Scholar from the American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) Division of Policing.
April 18, 2023At a time when policing in the United States is facing major challenges, Mason’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy is beginning a first-of-its-kind multi-method longitudinal study of a cohort of police officers to understand how officers progress through their law enforcement careers.
March 27, 2023Washington Business Journal recently posted an Op-Ed written by George Mason Ä¢¹½AV's President, Dr. Gregory Washington making a case for an FBI headquarters in Northern Virginia.
March 21, 2022George Mason criminologists receive $1.48 million for improving mental health responses in public safety
July 28, 2021Mason's Cynthia Lum, a former Baltimore City cop, talk about how evidence-based policing is part of an overall strategy to fight crime that also includes police being respectful to the communities with which they work.
- June 9, 2021
Mason's Cynthia Lum and David B. Wilson honored as Fellows by the American Society of Criminology
- Tue, 02/09/2021 - 11:38
This semester the Office of the Provost will renew the Mason Vision Series, a monthly forum to showcase exemplary real-world research and scholarship that takes place every day at Mason.
