News / Events
Sudhir Venkatesh - "Gang Leader for a Day"
The Criminal Justice Graduate Student Association is pleased to present a lecture by acclaimed ethnographic researcher Sudhir Venkatesh on April 6, 2011, 10 am. Click here for more information.
Celebration of Professor Mark Haller's scholarship
photo (from left to right): Dr. Alan Harland, Dr. Mark Haller and Dr. Eric Schneider
On May 1st, 2009, the Department of Criminal Justice hosted an afternoon event to honor the scholarship of Professor Mark Haller. As part of this event Dr. Eric Schneider (above) from the University of Pennsylvania delivered a seminar presentation.
Professor Haller is known for his ground-breaking research on the economics of illegal enterprise which has shown how such activities both reflect and influence the history of ethnic groups, urban geography, professional sports, popular culture, changing technology, and other social factors. In the 1970s he gained complete access to the raw intelligence files of the Capone income tax investigation and established that the picture of him as a "boss" of a bootlegging operation, as found in the media and scholarly works, was largely mythical. In 1990 he was offered complete access to all of the intelligence files of the Pennslvania Crime Commission and found that the standard picture of so-called "mafia" organizations in the U.S. fails to understand the structure and functions of such operations.
Professor Haller also played a founding role in establishing the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple and then in providing his invaluable guidance for more than three decades of our development into one of the nation's leading departments.
Graduate Student Symposium 2008
Conference theme: Spatial Criminology
Temple University's Department of Criminal Justice invited graduate students with an interest in spatial criminology to present their work at a Graduate Student Symposium with an audience of faculty and peers. The presentations were an ideal opportunity for everyone interested in environmental criminology, the application of spatial statistics to crime analysis, GIS and crime mapping, and the interface between geography and crime to meet peers and network with key faculty researchers in this dynamic and growing area of applied research.
Temple University is a national center of excellence in teaching and research with an international presence. Temple's talented faculty and its broad curriculum of nearly 300 academic programs provide superior educational opportunities for academically talented and highly motivated students, without regard to their status or station in life. Temple's richly diverse student population and the dramatic growth of Temple's residential campus community of student scholars enrich the educational and extracurricular life of all Temple's people. The Department of Criminal Justice is known as a center of excellence for spatial criminology, and the Top Research Universities Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index has ranked the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University as the 6th most productive faculty of all doctoral programs in Criminology and Justice Studies.
Conference presentations
The conference took place May 19 and 20th, 2008. The conference is now over, however pdf documents of most of the presentations can be found at the conference web site.
Monday Night Film Series
The Department of Criminal Justice is pleased to present the third annual Monday Night Film Series. This year’s series begins on Monday, September 14, 2009.
Each Monday evening during the Fall 2009 semester, the Department of Criminal Justice hosts a screening of crime and criminal justice –themed movies in Tuttleman 101 at 5:15 pm. The series is free and open to the entire Temple University community. All films are shown uncut and without interruption. Selections include contemporary and classic films on topics relevant to crime and the criminal justice system, including gang and youth violence, capital punishment, violence against women, drugs and crime, the social construction of crime and justice, and prisoner re-entry. There will be some time for discussion of the film afterward.
Please join us Monday evenings this semester for some great and thought-provoking films. All screenings will be held in Tuttleman 101 at 5:15 pm.
Click here for more information or visit http://www.temple.edu/cj/filmseries .