The 13th Annual Jerry Lee Symposium on Evidence-Based Crime Policy was held on April 29 and 30, 2013, in Washington, D.C. This year’s symposium was entitled “Police Education in What Works: From the US to the UK,” and was the first public dialogue between US and UK police leaders responsible for setting standards for police education, selection, training and promotion.
 

On April 24, 2013, Dr. Laura Dugan appeared on the “Boston Bombing Aftermath” episode of the radio show Midday with Dan Rodricks. 2013.  As part of a panel of experts speaking about the FBI investigation of the Boston bombing suspects, Dr. Dugan explained that the FBI could only pursue its earlier investigation of Tamerlan Tsarvaev as far as it did because of the limited evidence on the case.  She also explains how important it is that the media refrain from sensationalizing the lives of the Tsarvaev brothers so that members of the public do not idealize them and want to follow in their footsteps.  
 

Dr. Laura Dugan and colleagues have recently received an interdisciplinary seed grant award from the University of Maryland's ADVANCE Program for their research:  "What Type of Talk is Cheap?  Dyadic Discourse in Political Violence"
 
PI, Associate Professor Laura Dugan from the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice (UMD), Co-PI recently promoted Associate Professor Brooke Liu from the Department of Communication (UMD), and outside Co-PI Assistant Professor, Erica Chenoweth from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver