UCF Criminal Justice and Legal Studies professors attend 61st Annual American Society of Criminology Conference

Criminology & Criminal Justice Policy was the theme for this year's conference, which was held in Philadelphia, PA from November 4-7, 2009. The Criminal Justice faculty at UCF made an impressive contribution to the conference by presenting multiple papers and participating in many sessions throughout the week.

Papers included:

Randomized Field Experiments: Perhaps Just the Silver Standard

By: Ken Adams and Robert Langworthy

Police Use of Force Practices and Policies: A Multi-City Examination

By: William Terrill and Eugene Paoline

Influencing Citizen Attitudes about the Russian Police: The Roles of Media Consumption and Trustworthiness

By: Olga Semukhina, Kenneth Reynolds, Nicolai Demidov and Raymond Surette

The Pragmatic American: Attributes of Crime and the Hydraulic Relation Hypothesis

By: James Unnever, John Cochran, Francis Cullen and Brandon Applegate

Popular Culture and Death Penalty Opinion

By: Robert Bohm and Raymond Surette

Violentization Theory and Genocide

By: Mark Winton

A Typology of Reentry: Making Sense of the Conceptual and Research Problems in a Popular Movement

By: Karol Lucken and Amber Alloway

Discussion: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States

Robert Bohm

Legal Studies professors present current surveillance research at annual conference

Dr. Cynthia Brown and Dr. Carol Bast presented their research titled:

Guilty by Association: Small World Problem Theory Emphasizes Need for Critical Business Strategies in Response to the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act

At the 55th Annual Southern Academy of Legal Studies in Business, held November 5-7, 2009.