CCJ, Spanish, and Psychology major Carlie Minghella is featured by the College of Arts & Sciences as a member of this year’s diverse and distinguished graduating class.

Bridge to Opportunity, a program with efforts to reduce recidivism rates in Rhode Island, has been operating with the help from University of Rhode Island criminology and criminal justice professors Chelsea Farrell and Natalie Pifer.

CCJ and Gender & Women’s Studies major Rossvierlin Cajigas is featured by the College of Arts & Sciences as a member of this year’s diverse and distinguished graduating class.

Hannah Beaucaire, a senior CCJ major, will spend her summer documenting the short and long-term effects of solitary confinement to better understand the reforms currently being implemented by the Maine Department of Corrections. Her faculty mentor is Dr. Natalie Pifer.

CCJ major Camryn Tierney is featured by the College of Arts & Sciences as a member of this year’s diverse and distinguished graduating class.

Through her earnest work and research with criminology and social inequalities, associate professor Jill Doerner has cultivated a classroom of enlightening opportunities at the University of Rhode Island.

CCJ and Journalism major Andy Main is featured by the College of Arts & Sciences as a member of this year’s diverse and distinguished graduating class.

Ying Wu, a junior from Cranston, Rhode Island, studying criminal justice and Chinese, received the Boren Scholarship worth up to $20,000 to continue her studies of Chinese.

Dr. Natalie Pifer, Assistant Professor of CCJ, takes a social science perspective of punishment, correction, and social control during this unprecedented pandemic. She examines the challenges of incarceration for prisoners, institutions, and correctional officers. As well as shedding light on how the American correctional system reflects the issues of the American healthcare system.