Criminology, Law and Justice at UIC

08/29/2023

🤔 Have you already lost your way in BSB? Well, either way come find us on the fourth floor (4022) and say hello! (Don't worry we're still learning the ropes too.)

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08/10/2023

Looking for an exciting elective or upper-level course? Check out CLJ 493 Contested Concepts in Criminology! The course will be asynchronous and taught by Dr. Susila Gurusami. Both graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to register!

06/15/2023

A new article from CLJ faculty member Dr. Chris Maggio is now out! The article, "Prejudice specifically defined: predictors of group-specific racial/ethnic attitudes in the United States," can be found in the Ethnic and Racial Studies journal! Congratulations, Dr. Maggio!

Post-1965 immigration has led to a new configuration of racial/ethnic diversity in the United States. Subsequently, White Americans have demonstrated more positive attitudes toward certain racial/e...

06/08/2023

CLJ Professor Gregory Matoesian and CLJ alum Kristin Enola Gilbert recently published a new book, Practicing Linguistics Without a License: Multimodal Oratory in Legal Performance. Congratulations to both!

“This book analyzes the complex interplay between gesture, speech, and other modal resources (e.g., gaze, facial expression, motion) during the presentation of evidence and interpretation of testimony in court. By analyzing recordings of a well-known r**e trial, the authors reveal how multimodal oratory contributes to forensic linguistics and gesture studies, and how it helps understand recent policy recommendations for reforming the r**e trial.”

06/02/2023

Dr. Alana Gunn was recently awarded the Elizabeth Butler Award from the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Congratulations, Dr. Gunn! Read more below!

https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/news-events/all-news/2023-crown-family-school-alumni-award-recipients

05/04/2023

Congratulations to all our soon-to-be CLJ graduates! The CLJ Department wishes you the best in all your future endeavors. Please follow us on our social media for future events and news!

Commencement Information: https://commencement.uic.edu

04/06/2023

SAVE THE DATE!

The Criminology, Law, and Justice Department is hosting an event for CLJ Alumni and graduating seniors on May 4th! Join us to celebrate the inaugural CLJ Alumni Impact Award recipients and our collective contributions. Refreshments will be provided. To RSVP, please click the link and fill out the form!

Link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/cJckBqAto5EDknwF6

When: May 4th, 2023
Time: 5:30-7:00PM
Where: UIC Gallery 400

04/03/2023

SAVE THE DATE

Please Join the Institute for Humanities on April 12 from 4:00-6:00 PM for their Fellows Lecture with Dr. Rahim K***a entitled, “Apartheid’s Afterlives: Policing Black Life in the Antelope Valley.” Building from Cheryl Harris’ work on whiteness as property, this talk traces the historical processes by which policing has come to function in the same manner.

More information can be found here: https://huminst.uic.edu/events/fellows-lecture-rahim-kurwa-criminology-law-and-justice-apartheids-afterlives-policing-black-life-in-the-antelope-valley/

04/03/2023

SAVE THE DATE

Please join the CLJ Department for a Faculty Workshop on Wednesday, April 19, from 12:00 – 1:00 PM featuring Dr. Danielle Beaujon! The talk, "Requis on the Run: Policing Algerian Labor in WWII Marseille," will focus on Dr. Beaujon's ongoing research. Make sure you register for the event!

Register here: https://uic.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZModOqrqzgqG9S4BPe33G-tOnOe6QvigB3i

04/01/2023

The Department of Criminology, Law, & Justice presents:
A Conversation with Dr. Michael Walker

Friday, April 7, 2023, 2-3:30pm
Gallery 400 Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria St.

Dr. Michael Lawrence Walker is the Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Dr. Walker is the author of Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail, which won the 2022 Charles H. Cooley Award for Best Recent Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Indefinite is a transformative ethnography of social life in a modern county jail. Conducted while Dr. Walker, himself, was incarcerated, Indefinite presents a visceral examination of the emotional landscape of penal living from the viewpoint of those locked away.

03/30/2023

Last night the CLJ Department celebrated Dr. Beth Richie for her LAS Distinguished Professor Award. If you want to listen to Dr. Richie’s presentations, here is a link!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K63C0e5ylk

03/30/2023

Please join the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice for a conversation with Dr. Michael Walker on Friday, April 7, from 2:00-3:30 PM at Gallery 400! Dr. Michael Lawrence Walker is the Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. In addition, Dr. Walker is the author of Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail.