2017

November
- In Search of Answers to the Opioid Epidemic
  
  November 20, 2017
  A dean’s seminar hosted by Drexel University’s College of Arts and Sciences presented a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives on the root causes and the potential solutions to the opioid epidemic.
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October
- Research Shows Clear Rules Can Lower Recidivism for Non-Violent Drug Offenders
  
  October 31, 2017
  With prison systems across the country clogged with inmates, including the 50,000 residing in Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections, state governments are investing heavily in efforts to keep offenders from returning once they’ve served their time. Despite these efforts, nationally more than 67 percent of offenders end up back behind bars. One Drexel University researcher believes it could be due to a simple lack of communication and consistency.
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September
- Criminology Student Visits Max Security Prison in Norway
  
  September 26, 2017
  Emma Nolan ’18 performed 14 interviews with Norwegian prison officials in research on comparative punishment practices.
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August
- A Life-Changing Visit to a Revolutionary Scandinavian Prison
  
  August 15, 2017
  For 10 days last winter, a small group of Drexel students toured prisons and courthouses in Norway and Sweden to learn how a focus on restoration and rehabilitation creates a radically different criminal justice system.
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June
- College of Arts and Sciences Tenure, Promotion and Awards
  
  June 26, 2017
  The mission of the College of Arts and Sciences and the University could not be accomplished without the dedication and support of our faculty members. It is their pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and scholarship that reinforces our position as a modern liberal arts college, and enhances our University’s reputation as a world-class research institution.
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- Former Justice Department Official Joins Drexel’s Juvenile Justice Research and Reform Lab
  
  June 20, 2017
  After serving as Administrator of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the Obama Administration, Robert L. Listenbee, Esq., will return to Philadelphia as a Stoneleigh Foundation Visiting Fellow.
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May
- Q&A: Drexel’s Anil Kalhan on Philadelphia DA Candidate Larry Krasner
  
  May 22, 2017
  Larry Krasner won last week’s Democratic primary for Philadelphia district attorney on the back of a progressive platform and his status as an outsider to the prosecutor’s office. DrexelNow asked Anil Kalhan of the Thomas R. Kline School of Law what to expect if Krasner wins the general election.
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- Ex-Inmates Visit Drexel University Class on Crime and Justice
  
  May 11, 2017
  Professor Cheri Brooks brought to class a pair of recently released men who were given mandatory sentences of life without parole as teenagers, inviting a discussion on crime, punishment, retribution and rehabilitation.
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April
- Crowded District Attorney Field Debates Reform at Kline School of Law
  
  April 18, 2017
  The eight candidates vying to be Philadelphia’s next elected district attorney offered their views on the ways to fix an office marred by scandal and a criminal justice system in need of new ideas.
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March
- A Criminology Student Ready to Turn Theory Into Practice
  
  March 01, 2017
  Drexel senior Alli Scott’s classroom and field experience has her set for a career as a crime analyst where she can focus on the root of the problems facing high-crime neighborhoods. But her post-graduation plans don’t stop there — she sees a nonprofit in her future.
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February
- Sessions-Gorsuch-What-to-Know
  
  February 15, 2017
  President Donald Trump’s nominees for U.S. attorney general and U.S. Supreme Court justice have attracted significant attention in recent weeks. DrexelNow spoke with two constitutional law professors to assess their expectations for Jeff Sessions and Neil Gorsuch.
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- 25 Faces 25 Years: Shoval Dorani
  
  February 14, 2017
  
  Shoval Dorani has looked justice in the eye before. Rather than diving into college after high school, Dorani left her hometown of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, to fight in her father’s native country for the Israel Defense Forces. As a canine handler and commander in the IDF, Dorani — along with her trained military dog, a Belgian Malinois named Gula — came face-to-face with enemy soldiers in combat for three years. So, when she left the IDF to study in Drexel’s Criminology and Justice Studies program, Dorani had one goal in mind: she wanted to “lock up criminals.”
  
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- Breaking the Cycle
  
  February 02, 2017
  It is one of our nation’s most pressing and persistent public health crises. It is responsible for more than 25,000 deaths each year nationwide, and as many as 3,500 annually in Pennsylvania alone. It reaches from the inner cities to wealthy suburbs and out into the countryside, and its recent growth has been described by officials at the Centers for Disease Control as “unprecedented.”
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