Each year the program awards the Susette M. Talarico Public Service Leadership Award to the student- or students- who have shown exemplary service during their time in the program. This year, we have two winners: Delaney Burke and Allison Victoria Reid. Congratulations to both of you!

What Do Forensic Psychologists Really Do? 

Information and Stories From A Clinical and Forensic Psychologist 

Presented by Dr. Sara Millspaugh

*all students welcome

MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow and University of Chicago sociologist Dr. Reuben Miller is the author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, a “persuasive and essential” (Dr. Matthew Desmond) book that offers a “stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation’s carceral system” (Heather Ann Thompson).  As a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and as a sociologist studying mass incarceration, he has spent years alongside prisoners, formerly incarcerated people, their families, and their friends to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail. What his work reveals is a simple, if overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of prison.

Miller is an associate professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. Before coming to Chicago, he was an assistant professor of social work at the University of Michigan, a faculty affiliate with the Populations Studies Center, the Program for Research on Black Americans, and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; a fellow at New America and the Rockefeller Foundation; and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and Dartmouth College. A native son of Chicago, he lives with his wife and children on the city’s South Side.

The Susette M. Talarico Lecture, presented by the Criminal Justice Studies Program and the Criminal Justice Society, is hosted annually in memory of Dr. Talarico, a long-time director of the Criminal Justice Studies Program. With support from the Susette M. Talarico Fund, the Criminal Justice Society, the Departments of Political Science and Sociology, this lecture series has brought practitioners and scholars to campus to speak on a wide variety of current issues in criminal justice.

The 2024 Susette M. Talarico Lecture is co-sponsored by the School of Public & International Affairs, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Institute for African American Studies, School of Social Work, and the Law School.

UGA Memorial Hall Ballroom is located at 101 Sanford Drive, Athens, GA 30602

Parking is available at Tate Deck and North Deck. 

Convocation will be held on May 10th at the UGA Chapel for students graduating in spring and summer of 2024. 

The ceremony will begin at 10:00, but we are asking students to arrive by 9:40 for a group photo in front of the Chapel. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to Caroline Bryson at caelch@uga.edu .

Parking available at North Deck and downtown Athens. 

Students can RSVP here: https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6QBuRn1Gysd5g1M

Important CJ dates for spring 2024

January 16th: New Major Meeting at 5:00, Pinnacle Room in Baldwin Hall

January 16th: CJ Society Meeting at 6:00, Room 307 in Baldwin Hall

January 23rd: Intern Prep Meeting at 5:00, Pinnacle Room in Baldwin Hall 

February 13th: CJ Society Meeting at 6:00, Room 307 in Baldwin Hall 

February 27th: CJ Society Meeting at 6:00, Room 307 in Baldwin Hall 

March 11th: CJ Workshop, more information coming soon! 

Students can register at this link by Monday, October 30th at 5pm: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcYe3zWELYFcp6is7zBcvrNUZ28kKO76Lx3mvMmno3G5mPRQ/viewform?usp=sharing