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Safety and Justice Challenge

Five questions with Lee Slocum, professor of criminology and criminal justice

Slocum has been leading a team of researchers studying people's feelings of community safety with the support of a grant from the MacArthur Foundation....

Criminologist Lee Slocum researching ideas about community safety across different regions, including in St. Louis County

Slocum is surveying residents of St. Louis County; Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; and Missoula County, Montana, in a project sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation....

UMSL criminologists behind new report examining plea-bargaining process in St. Louis County and elsewhere

Faculty members Beth Huebner and Marisa Omori and doctoral students Alessandra Early and Luis Torres co-authored the report with colleagues at Loyola University Chicago....

Doctoral candidate Lauren Morgan balances criminal justice research with training as elite water skier

Morgan is doing her dissertation research on so-called crossover youth – children and adolescents involved in both the child welfare and juvenile justice system....

MacArthur Foundation awards $1.3 million to St. Louis County, UMSL to continue local justice system reforms

Criminology and Criminal Justice Professor Beth Huebner will continue directing efforts aimed at reducing over-incarceration and advancing racial equity....

Beth Huebner, Mindy Bier and Tom Hoerr featured as ‘St. Louis on the Air’ comes to campus

Host Sarah Fenske and her colleagues recorded an episode last week in front of members of the Pierre Laclede Society....

Beth Huebner part of UM System team awarded $200,000 grant to support corrections research

The team is piloting a 4½-year research project at Moberly Correctional Center, north of Columbia, in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Corrections....

Alumna Gloria Clark Reno presides over the state’s largest judicial circuit

Reno, who earned her degree in English in 1973, is the first African American to serve as presiding judge of the St. Louis County Circuit Court....

Beth Huebner talks progress in reducing the jail population on ‘St. Louis on the Air’

Efforts led by the professor of criminology and criminal justice have helped bring about a 22-percent drop in the St. Louis County jail population since July 2018....

MacArthur Foundation-funded initiative has helped reduce jail population in St. Louis County over past 2 years

UMSL criminologist Beth Huebner is the lead researcher on the project that also has helped decrease the average time people spend behind bars and reduce racial disparities....