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A trio of participants graduating from the Orange County Young Adult Court in October 2021 bookend two of the program’s key collaborators, Orange County Superior Court Judge Maria Hernandez (second from left) and UCI Professor Elizabeth Cauffman (center).

UCI awarded $10.1 million grant to expand O.C. Young Adult Court study

Funding will provide more extensive wraparound services for program participants

Aerial photo of the city of Irvine

Approaching its golden anniversary, Irvine sets a gold standard for safety

UCI criminologists examine how the city defies expectations by keeping crime levels low

J. Zoe Klemfuss

NIH awards over $2.5 million for research to improve interviewing of young witnesses

UCI study to focus on questions about the sequence of events in child maltreatment cases

Elizabeth Cauffman, professor of psychological science

National Institute of Justice funds UCI evaluation of new Orange County Jail program

Research will gauge effectiveness of measures to curb recidivism among young men

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UCI Podcast: A second chance for teens marked by felony’s scarlet letter

Elizabeth Cauffman partners with Orange County on two programs to make juvenile justice more just

Nancy Rodriguez, UCI professor of criminology, law & society and principal investigator

$2.7 million gift by Arnold Ventures to UCI funds most comprehensive prison violence study to date

Unique multi-strategy approach will identify evidence-based reduction, prevention policies

No increase in crime under California’s ‘sanctuary state’ status, UCI study finds

Innovative policy research is first to gauge impact of controversial legislation

UCI researchers are awarded Department of Justice grant to study immigration and crime

John Hipp and Charis Kubrin, both professors of criminology, law & society, and Emily Owens, associate professor of criminology, law & society, have been awarded a two-year, $700,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to determine the ways in which immigration and crime are related. Using a decade of data, they’ll conduct analyses that […]

UCI, UCR scientists eavesdrop on DNA synthesizer to steal genetic blueprint

Research shows vulnerability of sensitive procedure to acoustic side-channel attack

Study finds that drug activity boosts crime in neighborhoods regardless of stability, wealth

The influence of drug activity on crime rates is independent of a neighborhood’s stability and socioeconomic status, according to a recent UCI study. “Communities with narcotics trafficking bring in serious, high-rate offenders, whose activities spill over into surrounding neighborhoods,” said lead author Christopher Contreras, a doctoral student in criminology, law & society. “Residential stability and […]