News, Media and Stories | Criminal Justice

Professor Aimee Wodda
Assistant professor of criminal justice, law and society Aimee Wodda is the 2024-2025 recipient of the Western Society of Criminology's Richard Tewksbury Award, recognizing her work in the bourgeoning field of queer criminology.
Kelsey Graczyk '19 long dreamed of working for the National Park Service. Now she helps tell the story of the parks as a visual communications specialist.
Daniel Eisen
Eisen is a critical race scholar whose classes support the undergraduate Sociology, Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society, and Gender and Sexuality Studies programs at Pacific University.
Amanda Pays '21 was accepted into the Criminology, Law, and Justice Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois at Chicago and will begin her doctoral studies in fall 2022.
CAS student Hannah McCauley '21
A double major in sociology and criminal justice, law and society more than prepared Hannah McCauley ’21 for her next chapter. 
McCall students
The McCall Center for Civic Engagement Award recognizes outstanding contributions to civic engagement at Pacific University.
Claire Argow portrait and papers from her collection
By the time she came to Pacific in 1960, Claire Argow already was well known for her work to abolish the death penalty and reform the penal system. She was driven by the belief that people convicted of crimes still deserve to be offered opportunities and treated humanely.
Jenna Richards Smiling
Jenna Richards '19 brings compassion and openness to her focus on criminal justice.
Young individual speaking to students about Youth Justice
A juvenile justice course in Pacific's Criminal Justice, Law & Society program takes students out of the textbook and into the community to prepare for careers in the legal system.
As a federal judge, Pacific Hall-of-Famer Rick Carnaroli ’80 has an inside look at the legal system. That’s why he helped establish a veterans treatment court to serve the veterans falling through the cracks.

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