Crime/Violence
Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century
Posted: April 14, 2023 at 2:41 pm
This talk addresses the issues associated with the use of nuclear energy, including nuclear power generation for electrical energy and nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are among the most dangerous military threats facing humanity. Nuclear waste is considered one of the most fearsome long-term risks to life on Earth. The talk also addresses the many ethical […]
A/V requirements: Laptop, LCD Projector, Screen
Understanding the Soviet Gulag, Understanding Stalinism
Posted: October 8, 2021 at 1:56 pm, Last Updated: October 11, 2021 at 2:43 pm
Professor Barnes offers an engaging reconsideration of the role of the Soviet Gulag in Stalin’s Soviet Union based on over two decades of research in formerly highly classified Soviet archives. His discussion raises important questions about the place of the concentration camp and mass detention in the modern world and engages in systematic comparison of […]
A/V requirements: LCD Projector, Screen
Steven Barnes (Note: For in-person engagements, speaker needs to wear a mask.)
Human Trafficking (not available until June 2025)
Posted: July 13, 2021 at 3:15 pm, Last Updated: April 12, 2024 at 5:15 pm
A/V requirements: Internet Access, Laptop, LCD Projector, Screen
Drug Trafficking (not available until June 2025)
Posted: July 13, 2021 at 3:13 pm, Last Updated: April 12, 2024 at 5:15 pm
A/V requirements: Internet Access, Laptop, LCD Projector, Screen
Organized Crime (not available until June 2025)
Posted: July 13, 2021 at 2:49 pm, Last Updated: April 12, 2024 at 5:16 pm
A/V requirements: Internet Access, Laptop, LCD Projector, Screen
The Threat to American Democracy and Civil Society: Understanding Influence Operations, Violent Extremism, and the Fractures Spawned by Political Partisanship
Posted: January 15, 2021 at 2:58 pm
On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol was attacked by a violent mob in an attempt to disrupt an electoral vote count by a joint session of congress. The Capitol almost fell under the weight of this insurrection. Americans – stunned and frozen in front of their televisions and mobile devices – witnessed a […]
A/V requirements: Internet Access, Laptop, LCD Projector, Screen, White Board and Markers
Civil Death, Incarceration, and Their Effects in the United States
Posted: July 24, 2020 at 12:21 pm, Last Updated: September 13, 2021 at 8:16 pm
Mass conviction, mass incarceration, and mass disenfranchisement currently deprive millions of Americans of civil and voting rights. Civil death, while initially framed as related to a crime or infraction of law, continues to follow the formerly incarcerated to the grave. This presentation examines the backstory of these policies, the historic racial implications, interpretations of human […]
A/V requirements: LCD Projector, Screen
Mass Fatality Investigations and War Crimes
Posted: May 14, 2020 at 12:23 pm, Last Updated: July 6, 2021 at 7:31 pm
Dr. Falsetti has been deployed to many mass fatality situations including military mishaps, commercial airline mass disasters (American Eagle, TWA 800), domestic terrorism (Oklahoma City Bombing), foreign terrorism (World Trade Center), and natural disasters (GA Floods, Thai Tsunami and Haitian Earthquake). In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Anthony managed mortuaries and field teams whose mission was to […]
A/V requirements: None
Mexico-U.S. Relations (not available until June 2025)
Posted: June 12, 2019 at 2:14 pm, Last Updated: April 12, 2024 at 5:17 pm
A/V requirements: Internet Access, Laptop, LCD Projector, Screen
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (not available until June 2025)
Posted: June 12, 2019 at 2:10 pm, Last Updated: April 12, 2024 at 5:14 pm
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (Ph.D. in Political Science, The New School for Social Research) is Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. Her areas of expertise are Mexico-U.S. relations, organized crime, immigration, border security, social movements and human trafficking. She was the Principal Investigator of a research grant to study organized […]
The Public Health Impacts of Gender-based Violence against Women
Posted: January 24, 2019 at 3:59 pm, Last Updated: September 13, 2021 at 5:59 pm
What are the public health impacts of gender-based violence against women? How can we research gender-based violence against women? What are promising intervention approaches to both reduce gender-based violence against women?
A/V requirements: Internet Access, Laptop, LCD Projector, Screen
Jhumka Gupta
Posted: January 24, 2019 at 3:57 pm, Last Updated: March 1, 2022 at 4:13 pm
Jhumka Gupta, ScD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Global and Community Health within the College of Health and Human Services. Her research program applies a social epidemiology framework towards advancing the science of gender-based violence against women and girls (e.g. intimate partner violence, sex trafficking). Specifically, she investigates the mental and reproductive health […]
Implementing Policy/Practice Reform in U.S. Corrections Agencies
Posted: September 19, 2017 at 3:24 pm
As organizations move scientific, scholarly research into work environments, our knowledge of implementation processes grows. However, scholars still know little about how managers and staff acquire knowledge about evidence-based or evidence-informed practices (EBPs/EIPs), how much they understand them and how they are used. This study examines how organizational actors understand, negotiate and implement reforms including […]
A/V requirements: LCD Projector
Things That Keep Me Up at Night: Technology’s Severest Challenges
Posted: April 13, 2017 at 6:48 pm, Last Updated: September 13, 2021 at 8:12 pm
If you are pretty much comfortable with today’s information technology world, this course is probably not for you. The instructor, who teaches technology policy at Mason, has collected several dozen of what he thinks are the scarier, more worrisome, and potentially game-changing topics in information technology that may be in our near-term and longterm future. […]
A/V requirements: None
Amy Murphy
Posted: February 24, 2015 at 7:40 pm, Last Updated: March 30, 2021 at 3:10 pm
Amy Murphy, MPP, joined the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!) in 2009. Amy serves as Project Director for the RNR Simulation Tool, an online suite of tools that operationalizes the Risk-Need-Responsivity principles. Amy’s additional projects at ACE include SOARING 2, an eLearning curriculum for criminal justice supervision officers, JSTEPS, an implementation study on contingency […]
Religious Conflicts and Their Resolution
Posted: September 29, 2014 at 2:43 pm, Last Updated: June 29, 2021 at 5:06 pm
Why do religious conflicts sometimes become lethal? What is causing the current spread of violent religious conflicts worldwide? What can be done to resolve these conflicts?
A/V requirements: None
Poverty, Inequality, and Conflict
Posted: September 29, 2014 at 1:45 pm, Last Updated: June 29, 2021 at 5:07 pm
How do poverty and inequality generate violent conflict even in a wealthy nation like the U.S.A.? What can be done to alter or eliminate the root causes of crime, structural violence, and war? This lecture brings the insights of conflict analysis and resolution to bear on an increasingly critical domestic problem.
A/V requirements: None
Personal Safety Risk Management
Posted: September 29, 2014 at 1:37 pm, Last Updated: July 16, 2019 at 5:34 pm
The workplace is an increasingly risky place. While it is impossible to eliminate the risk, it is possible to manage the risk. This workshop provides information to human service professionals and health care personnel on specific strategies who work with the public or specialized populations with greater risk for violence.
A/V requirements: LCD, Screen
New Approaches to Treatment During Incarceration (Unavailable Spring Semester 2023)
Posted: September 26, 2014 at 9:21 pm, Last Updated: February 21, 2023 at 7:55 pm
New research provides a framework for more constructive treatment approaches to break the cycle of crime.
A/V requirements: LCD, Screen