Bringing a Voice to Sexual Trauma
Some general statistics about sexual trauma: In the United States, 1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men report experiencing an attempted or completed rape at some time in their lives. Rape results in about 32,000 pregnancies each year. Every two and a half minutes, somewhere...
Mass Incarceration Research
Approximately 50 Boston University students and faculty gathered at Barrister’s Hall in the BU School of Law Wednesday evening to listen to a series of presentations about mass incarceration research and discuss its impacts. Ten BU researchers presented during the...
Professor Voices
The public demand for criminal justice reform in the United States has grown exponentially over the past couple of years, evident in media coverage and the current presidential election. Incarcerated people of color and imprisoned non-violent drug offenders are often...
Hands on Haiti
Though they teach in different programs within the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Danielle Rousseau and Assistant Professor of City Planning and Urban Affairs Enrique Silva share a commitment to reconstruction in Haiti...
Three New Faculty
This past fall, three new assistant professors joined the ranks of MET faculty: Canan Gunes Corlu (Administrative Sciences), Danielle Rousseau (Criminal Justice), and Guanglan Zhang (Computer Science). “We were very fortunate in this year’s faculty searches,” notes...