News

2025

2024

• Summer

  • Hiring more police in Waterloo Region may not help solve more crimes - Assistant Professor Tarah Hodgkinson included in story

• Winter

  • Laurier’s Stacey Hannem, a Criminology professor, comments on a University of Toronto’s study comparing spending on police to crime rates between 2010-2021

2023

• Summer

  • Dr. Jennifer Lavoie is co-lead for a new course that teaches Ontario police recruits how to defuse a mental health crisis
  • Dr. Tarah Hodgkinson wins Laurier Early Career Researcher Award
  • Constellations of Crisis Graduate Student Conference

• Winter

  • Over 400 participants compete for grand prize in Laurier’s Design for Change UX challenge
  • Criminology's Dr. Tarah Hodgkinson interviewed about perceptions of rising car theft in Ontario
  • Increasing Police Budgets - A Discussion with Laurier's Dr. Tarah Hodgkinson
  • Laurier student Clarissa Kurzawski balances her master’s degree and parenting as a single mom of four

2022

• Winter

  • Jennifer Lavoie collaborating on virtual-reality training program for police officers
  • Meet three motivated students preparing for the future as part of Laurier’s Criminology program
  • Laurier's Thomas Fleming receives UC Alumni of Influence award
  • Dr. Katrin Roots explores how human trafficking cases play out in the criminal justice system

2021