Tag: Criminology and Criminal Justice

Finding Passion in Criminal Justice: Recent Grad Talia Parente ’21 on Her Career Goals

While double majoring in psychology and criminology and criminal justice, Talia Parente ’21 became passionate about social justice and combatting racial inequality and discrimination within the criminal justice system. She was awarded the 2021 Undergraduate Academic Excellence Award for Criminology and Criminal Justice.

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Criminology and computer science senior enjoyed diverse opportunities and communities

One of Allegra Angell’s proudest accomplishments in her four years at the University of Rhode Island involved her honors project. She and another student created a video game to teach adolescents about unhealthy relationships using research on effective ways to teach young adults new concepts and different types of relationship abuse that they may encounter.

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Mikaela Vento

Criminology and Criminal Justice, German, and Global Language and Area Studies (Arabic track)

“I enjoy being able to use my language skills to overcome language barriers and see how culture and linguistics can influence how ways of thinking can differ.”

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Gabby DoVale ’20 on Combining Criminology and Criminal Justice with History

Gabby DoVale ’20 was admitted to the Leadership Alliance Summer Research Program through Brown University this past summer. Combining her interests in Criminology and Criminal Justice and History, she explored differences in alcohol-related arrests for white women and black women in the years around prohibition in Virginia.

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Sociology professor’s book explores quality-of-life crimes, specialized courts, and criminal justice reform efforts

Christine Zozula, Associate Professor of Sociology, recently published her debut book. While offering a critique of the community court system, she explores the prosecution of quality-of-life crimes, the workings of individualized justice in community courts, and the idea that criminal justice reforms may not deliver on all they promise.

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Hitting the Streets: John Vaccaro ’12 on What Led Him to Working With the NYPD

Growing up in URI’s hometown of Kingston, Rhode Island, John Vaccaro ’12 opted to attend the university closest to home for that and many other reasons. “It was convenient with my father working there,” he says, “and of course there was the family legacy since my older siblings attended. But I wanted to go to […]

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“Ones and Zeroes”: URI Student Hunter Bastan on How Talent Development Brought Her Closer to Her Dreams

Her plan originally was to never go to college. Both indecisive and reluctant, Hunter Bastan looked towards a possible future in either beauty school or the Marines before ever considering getting a traditional college education. But one letter changed all of that for the Providence native. What Bastan found in her mailbox filled her with […]

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