Event Date and Time

Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Location: Crist Board Room, Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center, 7801 Alumni Dr, College Park, MD 20742

Lecture and reception in honor of Professor Ray Paternoster to celebrate his life and scholarship to the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the profession.

Hosted by Ray Paternoster Memorial Fund and Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Thursday, March 31, 2022 
4:00–4:45 p.m. Lecture, Crist Board Room, Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center
5:00–8:00 p.m. Reception, Crist Board Room, Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center

Featuring Janet L. Lauritsen, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri – St. Louis discussing, "the Disappearing Gender Gap in Violent Victimization."

Additional gifts in honor of Professor Ray Paternoster are greatly appreciated.

About the speaker:

Janet L. Lauritsen is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of victimization, the social and historical contexts of crime and victimization, and quantitative research methodologies. Her current research analyzes how the risk for violent victimization has been associated with gender, race, ethnicity, and poverty status in the US over the past four decades.   Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the National Institute of Justice. Dr. Lauritsen served as Chair of the Panel on Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics for the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, and was Co-Editor of the journal Criminology from 2018-2020. In 2013, she was named Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, and is currently serving as President of the American Society of Criminology.

Questions? Contact Jessica Townsend at jessicat [at] umd.edu.