Legal Studies students learn about Willamette Law partnership program
UAA Legal Studies met with Willamette Law Dean Brian Gallini to learn more about the law school application process and the direct admission program.
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CSI: UAA
To students in UAA Justice Center instructor Glen Klinkhart’s Criminal Investigation course, the end of the semester is, quite literally, murder. For his lab practicum, Klinkhart—a homicide detective, true crime author, and computer forensics expert—stages the scene of his own murder in a UAA lecture hall and challenges the budding investigators in his class to solve the crime.
Justice Center's Troy Payne leads new virtual conference with international reach
Dr. Troy C. Payne, an associate professor in the Justice Center, recently was part of a group of professors from various higher-learning institutions that led CrimCon—short for Criminology Consortium, a nonprofit corporation—an academic criminology and criminal justice conference held virtually from Nov. 18 to 20.
Former Deputy AG Rob Henderson Joins Justice Center
Assistant Professor Rob Henderson brings experience as a long-time Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ prosecutor—and as an alum of the Justice Center himself. Now he’s ready to inspire students pursuing their own legal and justice careers.
Mental Health Care Among Juvenile and Adult Correctional Populations
A panel of officials from the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) discussed how Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ tackles the job of providing mental health care to juvenile and adult correctional populations. Nationally, more than half of prison and jail inmates have mental health problems, and probation/parole departments provide essential mental health services to their clients.
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