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On Friday, October 2nd, President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate John H. Laub to the position of Director, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice.
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John Laub is the Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, College Park.
He is also an Affiliate Faculty Member in the Department of Sociology at the University and a Visiting Scholar in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard.
He has served as the President and as a fellow of the American Society of Criminology, which awarded him the Edwin H. Sutherland Award.
He was also named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland for the 2006-2007 academic year.
Dr. Laub was the Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology for five years and currently serves as an Associate Editor of Criminology.
From 2002 to 2008, Dr. Laub was a member of the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Academies of Science.
He has published two award winning books and many research articles in the areas of crime and the life course,
juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, criminal victimzation, and the history of criminology.
He received his B.A. degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in criminal justice from the State University of New York at Albany.
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When nominating Dr. Laub and nine others to their respective positions, President Obama said, "These men and women bring with them a wealth of experience and talent, and I am grateful for their willingness to commit themselves to public service. I look forward to working with them in these important roles in the coming months and years."
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University of Maryland’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
(CCJS) is a national and international leader in research and criminal
justice education. A 1998 study of the quality of faculty in doctoral
criminology and criminal justice programs reported that CCJS faculty
were the most frequently cited of American criminal justice programs
while a more recent study reported that more than a third of the 22 most
accomplished new scholars in criminology and criminal justice received
their Ph.D. degrees from CCJS (Journal of Criminal Justice Education,
1998; 2001). According to a 2005 U.S. News and World Reports ranking of
the quality of Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral programs, the
Maryland program is number one out of the thirty-two programs ranked.
The mission of the department is to lead in the development
of criminological and criminal justice research and theory;
the training of graduate students to conduct and understand basic and applied research;
and the provision of undergraduate education of the highest quality including internships and international experiences.
Department members guide the highest levels of government, nationally and internationally,
on the development of research based policies to prevent and control delinquency, crime, and terrorism.
The department serves the campus, the local community, and the state as consultants and advisors on issues of critical importance.
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8/31/2009
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4/23/2009
Once again in 2009, The US News and World Report ranks the University of Maryland - Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice doctoral program number one in the field. (The Department was first ranked in 2005). Congratulations to our faculty, staff, and students on this outstanding accomplishment.
12/1/2008
As of Fall 2008, The Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice is not accepting any new applications for the Professional Masters program in the College Park, MD U.S. location at this time.
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11/9/2009
Undergraduates - Last Day to Drop with a "W"
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