Page 75 - NCJA Journal_volume1_issue1-final

factors within the family and schools, morality and religiosity, how different factors impact

perceptions of school safety, and reducing unwanted pregnancy and STDs. There was only one

paper in the eight years of study aimed at explaining acts of white-collar, corporate, or

government deviance and crime.

The relatively popular category of papers on criminal justice education featured

examinations of topics such as the role of the Juris Doctorate (JD) in criminal justice education,

curricular decisions at some schools, service learning, internships and experiential learning,

student clubs, criminal justice journals, collaboration with criminal justice organizations, using

technology, using theory to better educate students, media in the classroom, guest speakers in the

classroom, employers’ views of criminal justice majors, writing skills of students, teaching

statistics, the role of the thesis in graduate education, undergraduate research, education versus

training, social justice in the classroom, readying students for work, international student

exchanges, and insights about grad school from program directors.

The largest share of papers, papers on “other topics,” was the most diverse group of

papers offered at the conferences from 2011 to 2017. These papers included papers on crime &

drug use prevention, using music to reach at-risk youth, self-esteem among teens, multi-systemic

therapy, restorative justice, peace education, assessments and discussions of the drug war, career

opportunities in private security, bridging gaps between researchers and practitioners, issues

related to different forms of research, policy implications of research, information sharing in

criminal justice, interagency cooperation, criminal justice leadership, grantsmanship, effectively

planning emergency management drills, effective disaster response, emergency notification

systems at colleges and universities, crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED),

the CSI effect, biases created by the criminal law, the impact of politics and ideology and

68