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Leaders of the Tallahassee area’s law enforcement agencies will give brief remarks and cut the ribbon on the Capital Region Real-Time Crime Center on Friday, Sept. 15. The Capital Region Real-Time Crime Center (CRRTCC) is a collaboration that brings together the resources of local law enforcement and the nation’s leading criminology researchers in an effort to make the community safer.

The FSU College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research, is collaborating with the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health to make our nation's roads safer.

A new collaborative research study by FSU College of Criminology & Criminal Justice Professors Joseph A. Schwartz, Sonja E.

A new course at the FSU College of Criminology and Criminal Justice is designed to help eliminate the barriers between research and effective policy and practice. Translational Criminology & Politics (CCJ-6920) is co-instructed by FSU President Emeritus John Thrasher and Dean Thomas Blomberg.

FSU College of Criminology and Criminal Justice is the best college for criminal justice, according to University Magazine. The magazine released their 2023 Best Colleges for Criminal Justice rankings on May 29, with Florida State University taking the top spot. They base the rankings on several factors, including academic excellence, faculty expertise, student success rates, and the comprehensiveness of their criminal justice programs.

FSU's College of Criminology and Criminal Justice Distinguished Research Professor Daniel Mears co-wrote an op-ed on policing in America, recently published in the Orlando Sentinel. In the op-ed, Dr. Daniel Mears along with Dr. William R. Kelly from the University of Texas in Austin examines why America needs to reevaluate its public safety system.

College of Criminology and Criminal Justice Doctoral Program alumnus Dr. J.C. Barnes has been appointed Director of the University of Cincinnati's (U.C.) School of Criminal Justice. Dr. Barnes joined the U.C. School of Criminal Justice in 2014 when he accepted a position as associate professor. In May 2020, he was named interim Director of the School. Dean Lawrence Johnson of the U.C. College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services appointed Dr. Barnes as Director starting in September 2023.

Florida State University’s College of Criminology & Criminal Justice is pleased to congratulate Associate Professor Marin R. Wenger, who was recently honored by the University with an Undergraduate Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Major. Dr. Wenger was one of only 10 Florida State University faculty members to receive the award for the 2022-2023 academic year award.

The College of Criminology and Criminal Justice is sad to announce the April 25, 2023, passing of Sheila Rachin, patron of the Journal of Drug Issues (JDI), and donor of the Richard L. Rachin Graduate Fellowship Endowment. Sheila established the Richard L. Rachin Graduate Fellowship Endowment in 1997 in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice in memory of her husband, Richard L. Rachin, founder of the Journal of Drug Issues (JDI), following his death in 1996.