End of the Year Awards

We had the honor of celebratating our graduating seniors and present department awards.  Chief of Police Jill Lees of the IU Police Department Bloomington Division, an IU CJUS alumni, gave the keynote address.

Undergraduate Awards:

Karen Galvan - Distinguised Hoosier Award
James Jackson - Writing Excellence Award
Abby Lambert - Bill Selke Heart of Justice Award
Abby Novotny - Outstanding Senior Award

Graduate Awards:

Katie Barrus - Hue & Cry Award
Carmen Diaz - Robert F. Borkenstein Award

Congratulations to all of our graduates, current students, graduate students, and faculty for a fabulous 2022/23!  

Katie Barrus Awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Graduate student Katie Barrus was awarded the College of Arts + Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2023/2024.  The 10-month fellowship will provide full support as Katie conducts her research and writes her dissertation.  

Katie's research focus is on policing, perceptions of police legitimacy, victim and witness cooperation with policy, and African American English. 

During the Spring 2023 semester, Katie was the Instructor of Record for CJUS-P300 The Intersection of Language and Crime.  As described in the syllabus, "This course serves as an introduction to forensic linguistics, or the application of linguistics within legal settings, and takes a deep dive into how language is used from evidence to the courtroom."

Dr. Verma Publishes "Police Leaders as Thinkers"

Professor Arvind Verma's new book titled "Police Leaders as Thinkers" has been published by Springer.  This is Dr. Verma's third book published in the last six months.  While the release of the books has been a short timeframe, the work on the books has been over the past two years.

About this book:

"Featuring profiles of police leaders from various countries, this book features officers with an aptitude for learning, presenting the situations they have confronted and the methods they have adopted to change systems and usher reforms. It identifies the characteristics of thinking police officers, and suggests the ways in which the serious policing challenges of modern times can be addressed by creative and outside the box thinking by leadership."

Link to the publisher