Topic: crime and criminal justice

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People | April 16, 2024

2024 Service-Learning Award recipient Rachel Anderson combines passions of community service and teaching for new legal clinic.

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Campus News | September 27, 2023

The undergraduate course helps the next generation of decisionmakers analyze prison and parole systems function.

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People | February 16, 2023

From clerking to presiding over a federal district courtroom, the Boyd Law professor has focused her career on access to justice.

photo illustrations representing death across cultures
Campus News | December 9, 2022

From a new-found obsession with true crime podcasts to mourning rituals across cultures, this class examines the ways in which death captivates our attention.

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Campus News | October 3, 2022

Criminal justice course challenges students to explore what policing actually is.

Hands of white and black people being raised in the air at a protest.
Research | June 22, 2020

UNLV African American and African Diaspora Studies professor Tyler D. Parry on the effectiveness of protesting to enact social change.

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Research | June 16, 2020

UNLV criminal justice professor Gillian Pinchevsky on the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on victims of intimate partner abuse and how society can help protect them in the future.

Protest signs read "Defund Police" and "Abolish Police"
Research | June 10, 2020

As more municipalities weigh the future of their police departments, UNLV professors explain what these movements mean and how they would work.

Sergeant Toni Summerlin, on patrol during the coronavirus campus closure.
People | May 4, 2020

This police sergeant says she’s touched by the support the UNLV community is showing its campus police force during these unusual times.