Accomplished Scholars
- Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety James Jajuga released findings from the study, “Understanding the Prevalence and Characteristics of Bias Crime in Massachusetts High Schools,” completed by Northeastern’s Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research. Commissioned by the Massachusetts Governor’s Task Force on Hate Crime, it was the first empirical study done in the United States of hate-crime victimization in high schools.
- Criminal Justice researchers conducted a case study of the communication networks used by the security forces at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. Commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice, the study chronicled how security agencies worked together to ensure a safe venue for the Olympics. The team included Dean Jack Greene, Associate Dean Jack McDevitt, Brooks Trustee Professor of Criminal Justice Peter Manning, and Assistant Professor William Terrill.
- Faculty members have published extensively in academic journals including Criminology, Justice Quarterly; Police Quarterly; Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, An Interdisciplinary Journal; Journal of Quantitative Criminology; Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, and the Journal of Studies on Alcohol.
- Peter Manning, Brooks Family Professor of Criminal Justice is an international expert on policing. The author and editor of some 15 books, including Privatization of Policing: Two Views (with Brian Forst)(Georgetown University Press, 2000), his research interest includes the rationalizing and interplay of private and public policing, democratic policing, crime mapping and crime analysis, uses of information technology, and qualitative methods. Currently, he is collecting data on the history and evoltution of democratic policing in Ireland.