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2024 Press Releases

New Tool Can Help Audit Pretrial Detainment Decisions in Maryland, UMD Study Shows

2023 Press Releases

UMD Researchers Bolster New State Center for Behavioral Health and Public Safety

MCRIC Research Affiliates Recognized with Prestigious NIJ Award

2022 Press Releases

UMD MCRIC Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Pretrial Detention in Criminal Cases Across MD

UMD Research Supported by a Grant from the Governor’s Office Advances Predictive Analytics for Community Safety and Public Health

MCRIC Research Affiliate Co-Authors Study on How Machine Learning Can Predict the Likelihood of Shooting Victimization

UMD’s Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center Launches Study to Assess Pretrial Outcomes Across Maryland

MPower Grant Funds New Research Project Focused on Comparing Firearm Violence from Trauma Units and Police

New UMD Research Focuses on Improving Police-Community Relationships in Baltimore

UMD MCRIC Team Awarded BJAG Grant to Advance Predictive Analytics Partnership Project with the City of Salisbury

2021 Press Releases

CCJS Researchers Find ‘Gold Standard’ Survey Greatly Underestimates U.S. Drug Use

MCRIC Researcher Greg Midgette Interviewed by Probable Causation Podcast on Criminal Deterrence

University of Maryland Criminology Program Again Ranked #1 in the 2022 U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools Rankings

MCRIC Partners with Baltimore Police Department to Reduce Crime Through Data-Driven, Research-Based Techniques and Innovations

MCRIC Team Takes on Evaluation of the Baybrook Community-Based Group Violence Intervention Program

MCRIC Conducts Evaluation of the Swift, Certain, and Fair Program Implementation in Baltimore

MCRIC Partners with Salisbury on Predictive Analytics Project Supported by Edward Byrne Grant

2018-2020 Press Releases

2020

LaFree Honored with American Society of Criminology Sutherland Award

2019

MCRIC RFP Solicitation Invites Proposals from the Maryland Research Community

Gary LaFree to Serve as New Director of the Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center

Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center Announces Pilot Research Projects

2018

University of Maryland, Governor Hogan Announce Grant to Support the Development of a New Maryland Crime Research and Innovation Center