Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center

March 2019

The Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center (MCRIC) has announced five pilot research projects that will advance the Center’s interdisciplinary research agenda in its first year.

MCRIC, supported by a grant from the Governor’s Office of Crime Control & Prevention (GOCCP), provides academic research expertise to advance evidence-based policies and practices to help the state’s crime control and prevention efforts. The initiative benefits from Maryland’s collective talent and expertise to conduct interdisciplinary research and to help inform state policies and programs.

The pilot projects are:

• Using RDS to Identify Human Trafficking Victims in Prince George’s County and Montgomery County
  • Laura Ardito, Deputy Director, SAFE Center & Brian Kim, Assistant Research Professor, SAFE Center for Human Trafficking Survivors and the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Drug Traffickers in the Maryland Circuit Court: Their Past, Their Sentences, and Prediction and Prevention of Future Violence
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Jinney Smith, Ph.D., & Kiminori Nakumura, Ph.D., Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Trauma, Incarceration, and Black Men’s Health in Maryland
  • ​​​​​​​Kevin Roy, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Craig Fryer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Public Health
• Stop the Addiction Fatality Epidemic (SAFE) Project Treatment Locator Application
  • ​​​​​​​Stephanie Weaver, Jeff Horwitz, and Charles Harry, Associate Research Professor, School of Public Policy
• Violence Diffusion Prediction via Deep Learning
  • ​​​​​​​Kunpeng Zhang, Assistant Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business

For more information about the research projects, contact us at mcric@umd.edu.