Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy

More than three dozen experts in crime and justice gathered at Mason Square where they exchanged ideas with more than 400 registrants on a variety of topics, including alternatives to criminal justice systems, community-based violence prevention, stop-question-and-frisk policies, and improving the recruitment and retention of law enforcement officers.

Cynthia Lum, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and director of George Mason University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, has been named the 2023 Distinguished Scholar from the American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) Division of Policing.

At a time when policing in the United States is facing major challenges, Mason’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy is beginning a first-of-its-kind multi-method longitudinal study of a cohort of police officers to understand how officers progress through their law enforcement careers.

Washington Business Journal recently posted an Op-Ed written by George Mason University's President, Dr. Gregory Washington making a case for an FBI headquarters in Northern Virginia.

George Mason criminologists receive $1.48 million for improving mental health responses in public safety

Mason's Cynthia Lum, a former Baltimore City cop, talk about how evidence-based policing is part of an overall strategy to fight crime that also includes police being respectful to the communities with which they work.

Mason's Cynthia Lum and David B. Wilson honored as Fellows by the American Society of Criminology

This semester the Office of the Provost will renew the Mason Vision Series, a monthly forum to showcase exemplary real-world research and scholarship that takes place every day at Mason.