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August 27, 2019
Opioid overdoses claimed the lives of over 60,000 Americans in 2016 alone, and FAU researchers want to lower that number.
July 23, 2019
The good news is that adolescent “sexting” is not at epidemic levels as reported in some media headlines.

April 19, 2019
Seth Fallik, Assistant Professor, and Mara Schiff, Associate Professor, were awarded two of the three 2019 Presidential Awards – Fallik for Research/Scholarship and Schiff for Teaching. Schiff was also the runner-up for...

April 18, 2019
The study represents one of the most comprehensive assessments of the “dangerousness” of policing to date, and also shows a statistically significant decline in felonious killings of police following the Ferguson effect...

April 17, 2019
On April 11, 2019, the Criminology and Criminal Justice Graduate Committee hosted its second Brown Bag event for students seeking their Master of Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice (MSCCJ) degree.

January 29, 2019
While there is a lot of research on the LGBT community’s relationship with police, there is scant research on how they perceive police legitimacy and what predicts their willingness to obey, cooperate, and recognize police...

October 09, 2018
“Sextortion,” the threatened dissemination of explicit, intimate and embarrassing sexual images without consent, is the fastest-growing cyberthreat to children.

July 16, 2018
Ross Deuchar, Ph.D., affiliate professor in FAU’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and 2016/2017 Fulbright scholar-in-residence, just recently published his sixth book, Gangs and Spirituality: Global Perspectives...
June 26, 2018
Dr. Sameer Hinduja, Professor in the FAU School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking research on the impact of the virtual world and social media on violence and student...

June 04, 2018
Excerpt below from “Teens Are Cyberbullying Themselves. Why?” written by Sasha Jones for EducationWeek.org and featuring research from Dr. Sameer Hinduja, a professor of criminal justice at Ģtvҳ.