Topic: crime and criminal justice

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People | April 16, 2024

2024 Service-Learning Award recipient Rachel Anderson combines passions of community service and teaching for new legal clinic.

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Campus News | September 27, 2023

The undergraduate course helps the next generation of decisionmakers analyze prison and parole systems function.

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People | February 16, 2023

From clerking to presiding over a federal district courtroom, the Boyd Law professor has focused her career on access to justice.

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Campus News | December 9, 2022

From a new-found obsession with true crime podcasts to mourning rituals across cultures, this class examines the ways in which death captivates our attention.

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Campus News | October 3, 2022

Criminal justice course challenges students to explore what policing actually is.

Hands of white and black people being raised in the air at a protest.
Research | June 22, 2020

UNLV African American and African Diaspora Studies professor Tyler D. Parry on the effectiveness of protesting to enact social change.

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Research | June 16, 2020

UNLV criminal justice professor Gillian Pinchevsky on the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on victims of intimate partner abuse and how society can help protect them in the future.