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Tied with that category were papers related to policing (an average of 6.6 papers per year,

or 21% of the total, see Figure 4). The third most common paper topic was criminal justice

education (an average of 4.4 papers per year, or 14% of the total, see Figure 5).

This is followed closely by papers about some criminological theory (an average of 4.3

papers per year, or 14% of the total, see Figure 6). The fifth most common topic papers about

some form of crime (an average of three papers per year, or 10% of the total, see Figure 7) and

papers about corrections (an average of three papers per year, or 10% of the total, see Figure 8).

Ranked seventh was papers on courts (an average of two papers per year, or 6% of the total, see

Figure 9). The least common number of papers were those about juvenile justice (an average of

one paper per year, or 3% of the total, see Figure 10).

Figure 11 shows the total number of institutions who had presenters represented at the

conferences from 2011 through 2017, as well as the number of total authors over time. Each

conference featured an average of 18 institutions represented per year, with an average of 45

authors per year. A complete list of institutions is provided in Appendix B to give the reader a

specific idea of which institutions had individuals scheduled to present papers at the

conferences).

Table 1 shows that, during the seven years of study, people scheduled to present papers

or give talks came from a total of 67 institutions, including 27 universities, six colleges, five

community colleges, 13 policing agencies, three judicial agencies, two correctional agencies, and

nine other agencies. The institutions underlined attended the first conference in 2011, and the

two schools in bold (Appalachian State University and Western Carolina University) are the only

schools that had faculty and/or students make presentations at all eight of the conferences

included in the study.

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