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.

A new lecturer in the University of Rhode Island’s Criminology & Criminal Justice (CCJ) Program is dedicated to developing ethical knowledge and experience to challenge common thought processes. Michael David previously worked for over 20 years at the East Providence Police Department, where he retired as a captain.

CCJ major Ashley Fontana is featured by the College of Arts & Sciences as one of 18 students in this year’s diverse and distinguished graduating class.

Mikaela Vento, a CCJ and German major, with a minor in Arabic, is one of 16 URI modern language students who have been named Beatrice S. Demers Foreign Language Fellows and have been awarded generous grants to pursue foreign language studies across the globe.

The criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) program at the University of Rhode Island recently established their chapter of the honor society Alpha Phi Sigma (APS) and elected their inaugural executive board. 

Following the rapid growth of incoming students who applied to the criminal justice major at the University of Rhode Island, the department has hired a new full-time faculty member. Chelsea Farrell, current Northeastern University Doctoral Candidate, will join URI’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice for the 2019 fall semester.

This past winter break, nine University of Rhode Island students accompanied a professor in visiting Ocean Tides Inc. and Tides Family Services to learn more about the juvenile justice system in Rhode Island. They also came together on February 28th, 2019 to present their experience.

This year’s incoming class, made up of over 3,200 new first-year students and 500 transfer students, is one of the most academically talented and diverse in the university’s history. The most popular majors among incoming students are animal science, biology, business, criminology and criminal justice, engineering, kinesiology, nursing and pharmacy.