The Criminology Academy

03/09/2026

🚨 New episode is out! 🚨

How do you manage everything that comes with being a new asst. professor?

In Episode 131, Dr. Faith Deckard shares practical advice on time management, protecting your writing time, and building a sustainable academic career.

thecriminologyacademy.com/episode-131-de…

In episode 131, we sit down with Dr. Faith Deckard to talk about one of the biggest challenges facing new faculty members: time. From balancing research, teaching, service, mentoring, and administrative responsibilities to protecting focused writing time and avoiding burnout, we explore what the tra...

03/09/2026

🎙️ New Episode ( #130)!

Dr. Tara Richards joins us to discuss domestic violence help-seeking during COVID-19, comparing 911 calls and emergency hotline calls across seven U.S. cities.

Listen now!!! thecriminologyacademy.com/episode-130-ri…

Dr. Tara Richards is the David Scott Diamond Alumni Professor of Public Affairs and Community Service and Co-Director of the Victimology and Victim Studies Research Lab in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Her research and teaching focuses on prevent...

02/05/2026

Do you use podcasts in your criminology or criminal justice courses? Have you listened to one as part of a class? Or have you ever thought about it but haven't yet?

As CJ educators, we've been curious about how podcasts fit into higher education. Whether instructors are assigning them, how students actually feel about them, and whether they hold up alongside textbooks and lectures as real learning tools.

We're looking for up to 700 participants to help us find out.

📋 What's involved:
An anonymous online survey — that's it. No follow-ups, no identifying information collected.

✅ You're eligible if you are 18+ AND one of the following:
• Currently enrolled in (or took within the past 12 months) a college-level criminology or CJ course
• Currently teaching (or taught within the past 12 months) a college-level criminology or CJ course

Your perspective—whether you use podcasts, avoid them, or have never considered or encountered them in courses—is important to this research. This research could directly influence how future CJ courses are designed.

👉 Take the survey here: https://unomaha.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_54jlB6ss3sGoucm

Please share with students, colleagues, and anyone in the CJ education community. The more voices, the better the research.

02/05/2026

🚨 New Episode (Ep. 129)

If prisons are so secure… why are drugs still getting in?

Dr. William Schultz on staff smuggling, officer culture, and the limits of the “bad apple” story.

🎧 Listen: thecriminologyacademy.com/episode-129-schultz

11/03/2026

Dr. Jillian Peterson discussing the findings from, "Mental Health Consequences of Exposure to Mass and Non-Mass Shootings," published in Nature Mental Health in 2025.

11/03/2026

Are mass shootings uniquely American?

Episode 127 with Professor Jillian Peterson.

11/03/2026

The goal of this paper was to understand how many Americans have actually been exposed to mass shootings. What were the key findings of the paper?

📜: “Direct Exposure to Mass Shootings Among US Adults,” published in JAMA Network Open in 2025.

TCA Podcast - Episode 127.

11/03/2026

GRADUATE STUDENT TAKEOVER.

In Episode 128, four doctoral students staged a "hostile" takeover of the podcast.

Jose and Jenn are in the hot seats and the students are in charge of the "unvetted" questions.

🎧: thecriminologyacademy.com/episode-128-studenttakeover

20/02/2026

Episode 127 is out now!

We speak with Professor Jillian Peterson-a nationally recognized expert on mass violence, mental health, and violence prevention-about mass and non-mass shootings and their consequences.

Listen Now 🎧: thecriminologyacademy.com/episode-127-pe…

In episode 127, we speak with Professor Jillian Peterson, a nationally recognized expert on mass violence, mental health, and violence prevention. Dr. Jillian Peterson is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Executive Director of The Viole...