Criminal Justice Research Center News

Spring 2009, Volume 9: Issue 6

Hello everyone!!! Welcome to Spring Quarter 2009. I hope that your term gets off to a good start. CJRC is expecting to have a very active quarter. We are jump starting the term with the Walter C. Reckless-Simon Dinitz Lecture later this week on Thursday, April 2, 2009. Tom R. Tyler is the 20th Anniversary Lecturer and will speak on "Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: The Benefits of Self Regulation." Please join us at 6:30 Thursday at the Moritz College of Law‛s Barrister Club (25 W. 11th Avenue) for this important event. Rounding out the speaker series for the 2008-2009 academic year, Paul Bellair (Sociology) will give a talk on "Reliability and Validity of Prisoner Self-Reports Gathered Using the Life Event Calendar Methods" on May 12th, and Derek Kreager (Pennsylvania State University) will present on "Urban Gentrification and Longitudinal Crime in Seattle" on June 5th. Please mark your calendars for these events as well.

On another front, CJRC is pleased to announce its 2009 "Call for Proposals" for crime and justice projects in three categories: (1) Faculty Collaboration Projects (up to $6,000); (2) Faculty Seed Grants (up to $20,000); and (3) Graduate/Professional Student Research Awards (up to $1,000). We welcome proposals relating to research on a wide range of topics, and from faculty and graduate/professional students from a variety of disciplines/schools. Please visit our website at: http://cjrc.osu.edu/seedgrants.html for descriptions of these programs and to download applications.

I look forward to seeing you on Thursday night at the Reckless Lecture, and to receiving your small grant applications.

--Ruth