The Center for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies

Department of Sociology

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, The University of Iowa

Mission: The Center for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies is a forum for research and graduate training in the areas of crime, law, mental health, corrections, and social control.  To obtain these objectives, the Center has two major features:

• The Colloquium Series on crime, law, and social control allows affiliates and outside speakers to present their ongoing research. This offers a forum for dialogue and feedback on research issues. Click on the "Events" link to read about past and upcoming events.    Past Events
• The Graduate Training Program helps train graduate students by providing funding for travel to ABD students, and collaborative research projects between faculty and graduate students. In addition, the Center provides students with an environment conducive to study, including quiet office space and excellent computing resources.

NSF Symposium on Gender, Race, and Sentencing (Sept. 10-11, 2009)

For undergraduate sociology majors: Internship in Criminal Justice and Corrections (34:148)    

• Description: Students have been placed with several criminal justice agencies in Iowa, including the Iowa City Police Department, Johnson County Courthouse, and the Johnson County Department of Corrections (Hope House) in Coralville.  Students must apply, be accepted into the program, and arrange a placement before registering for course credit.  Interested students should complete and return the application to Professor Rob Baller no later than July 15th for the Fall semester, December 15th for the Spring semester, and May 1st for the 8-week summer session.                                        
• Prerequisites: A GPA of 2.3, junior standing, complete a course like Criminology (34:040), and be a sociology major 
• Requirements: Students provide the host agency 40 hours of work for each credit hour, and up to 5 credits can be taken at a time.  Students must behave in a professional manner so host agencies will have our students back in the future.  The host supervisor completes an evaluation of each student's performance, and students write a log of their activities and a 5-page paper that interprets their experiences using a sociological perspective. 

Research Highlight: Summer employment and teen suicidality

People:

Celesta Albonetti cv        Rob Baller cv        Matthew Boswell cv

Ana Campos-Holland cv    Khirin Carter      Samantha Cumley cv

Karen Heimer cv    Phil Levchak cv    Ken Sanchagrin

Karletta White          Stacy Wittrock cv

Director: Rob Baller can be reached at robert-baller@uiowa.edu