Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center

The American Society of Criminology (ASC) awarded Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center (MCRIC) Director Gary LaFree the Edwin H. Sutherland Award. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to theory or research in criminology on the etiology of criminal and deviant behavior, the criminal justice system, corrections, law or justice.

LaFree is professor and chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, in addition to serving as MCRIC Director. He was recognized by ASC for his research on the causes and consequences of violent crime, and in particular, his efforts to bring terrorism and responses to terrorism into the mainstream of criminology and criminal justice research and education.