The Department of Criminology, Law and Society, has been ranked No. 2 in criminology programs in the the 2021 Best Schools edition of U.S News and World Report. This annual report ranks graduate programs based on national reputation and the quality of students and faculty.
Related:
The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment.
The COVID-19 pandemic has become “a divisive force,” says Peter Ditto, professor of psychological science. Learn how the pandemic exposes stark differences in Orange County in this Orange County Register article.
Positive emotions can help sink stress, and one that does it better than others is awe. Zooming out helps you decenter and break the cycle of stress and anxiety. “Awe is a major trigger of decentering,” says Associate Professor of Psychological Science Paul Piff.
Commemorations bestow a sense of order to the chaos of events. What we’re commemorating is “the horrendous loss of life, the horrendous loss of livelihood, and the symbolic losses as well,” Distinguished Psychological Science Professor Roxane Cohen Silver told the Los Angeles Times last week.
“It’s really devastating, actually, to hear that so few people in jail have been vaccinated.”— Associate Criminology, Law and Society Professor Naomi Sugie tells KPBS. Learn how the low vaccination rates could signal trouble in this KPBS story.
COVID anniversary anxiety is real. Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science Roxane Cohen Silver tells TeenVogue: “We have lost both the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, and we’ve also lost hopes and opportunities and life experiences."
“I think the older generation now...they’re beginning to say, ‘My life is not nearly as disrupted as my children’s or grandchildren’s,’” — Professor of Psychological Science Susan Charles. Learn why older people managed to stay happier during the pandemic in The New York Times.
Throughout the pandemic, the experience of crisis upon crisis was so universal that Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science Roxane Cohen Silver and her colleagues came up with a name for it. “We call it cascading collective trauma,” she said. Learn more in this Los Angeles Times article.
Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science Roxane Cohen Silver tells us, "It is more comforting to think that there's a one size fits all response to grief." Find out why in this USA Today article.