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illustrates the nature of the topics been addressed at these seven conferences, to provide a

snapshot of who is the NCCJA?

Methodology

This paper grew out of a careful review of all the NCCJA conference programs during

the years 2011 through 2018. Thus, seven conference programs were reviewed. The title and

abstract of each scheduled presentation were used to classify papers/talks into one of several

broad categories of papers/talks, including:

 Crime

 Policing

 Courts

 Corrections

 Criminal justice education

 Criminological theory

 Juvenile justice

 Other

This is the approach used by Robinson (2002) in his review of the 2002 annual program

of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) and by Robinson (2004) in his review of

the annual program of the Southern Criminal Justice Association (SCJA) from 1998 through

2003. This approach was replicated by Ruffinengo, Mueller, and Collins, (2007) in their review

of the 2007 annual program of the ACJS. The author of this paper follows the same approach

when it comes to classifying papers or talks into one main category: typically the most

appropriate category assignment was easy to ascertain based on the title of the talk and the

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