December 15, 2020
The National Sheriffs Association and researchers want more action from the FBI to limit loss of key data from a change to the Uniform Crime Report.
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Top voices in law enforcement and criminology are worried about an FBI plan that is expected to stop thousands of local police agencies from contributing data on murders, rapes, assaults on police officers and other crimes to the nation s top crime reporting system, the Uniform Crime Report.
The National Sheriffs Association and American Society of Criminology have separately expressed concern to the FBI about the way the bureau is moving forward as it seeks to overhaul the UCR.
Filed in Books, Honors & Awards on December 11, 2020
Nikki Jones, a professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, has won the 2020 Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology. The award recognizes a book published within the past three years that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology.
Professor Jones was honored for her book
American Journal of Sociology, “
The Chosen Ones is theoretically astute, methodologically sound and empirically rich, and a model of what ethical, ethnographic research should look like in urban sociology.”
“It’s an honor to receive the award and to be recognized by a community of my peers for my scholarly contribution to the discipline,” said Professor Jones