Criminal Justice News

Criminal justice students saved more than $283,000 this year thanks to free learning resources and accelerated paths to graduation.

Julian Muhammad, Ph.D., will serve as a senior fellow, advancing research in crisis response, cybersecurity and disaster preparedness.

“When people arrive at the airport, they are concerned with checking their bags and getting to their gate,” Lennon said. “They don’t understand what’s happening behind the scenes."

Mass attacks are most likely to occur in a place of business, followed by the outdoors, then schools.

Le’Monna Cox’s study on vehicle thefts and Kierstin Hines’s research on light rail’s environmental impact earned them recognition as Transportation Research Board Minority Student Fellows.

“I realized this was not what I wanted to do with my life,” Edwards said. “Long days on the farm, feeding 20 plus horses, putting up fences.”

Espinoza and graduate student Daisha Ingram spent 10 weeks at the Department of Homeland Security Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency at Arizona State University in Tempe. 

Racial disparities in arrests persist, although misdemeanor arrests have dropped, according to research involving NCCU's Criminal Justice Department.

NCCU's Juvenile Justice Institute found a steady reduction in misdemeanor arrests starting in 2008 as part of an investigation into low-level crime arrests in Durham from 2007 to 2016.