LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION BLOG

 Read the latest informative manuscript by Professor Dean Alexander of WIU's School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration.  Follow the link to the online Security Magazine it is published in. https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/94660-family-affiliated-extremism-and-the-siege-at-the-us-capitol    

Professor Alexander of Western Illinois University's School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration is an internationally recognized expert who studies, lectures and writes about terrorism and extremism.  He has authored multiple books, research manuscripts and professional magazine articles on these topics.  He has been extensively interviewed by the media on terrorism and extremism too.   Please read one of his latest articles through the link provided. Police Countermeasures to Extremism    

Another great study on a timely topic from LEJA Professors Alexander and Ekici. We invite you to read the study here. https://www.securitymagazine.com/blogs/14-security-blog/post/92938-covid-19s-effects-on-policing

WIU LEJA professors Bitner, Ekici, & Sergevnin collaborated with LEJA graduate student Chloe Layne and University of Cincinnati professor Ozer to study how members of Generation Z view service of police officers. The research and findings were recently published internationally through a Russian journal in both English and Russian. The English version is available here. Russian publication

Faculty and a graduate student from the School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration at Western Illinois University collaborated to study Generation Z's perception of the use of deadly force by police. Their research was recently accepted for publication in Roll Call: A Leadership and Ethics Publication produced by The Center for American and International Law's Institute for Law Enforcement Administration. You can find the article titled Surveying Generation Z’s Paradigms on the Use of Deadly Force by Police through the link below and starting on page 4. https://www.cailaw.org/media/files/ILEA/Publications/RollCall/2020/ethics-roll-call-spring-2020.pdf

Faculty from WIU's School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration collaborated with Independent Researchers from Turkey to study kidnapping and extortion as tools for funding terrorism. The article is published in the Journal of Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression; which is a highly recognized tier one journal published on behalf of the Society for Terrorism Research. Please use this link to read their pioneering research: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TI5AKIJQIGCCBACMXYHI/full?target=10.1080/19434472.2020.1745257

This post was written by Martin Braun. He is currently a junior at WIU in the School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration and minoring in pre-law. Martin reports he has always wanted to work in service to the community and hopes to advocate for people who have been impacted by serious crimes. He hopes to fulfill this through a career with the FBI. The following information is a synopsis from a larger manuscript Martin wrote for his Research Methods course at WIU . When asking how we reduce prison recidivism, we first must find out the who contributes to recidivism the most and how we can change their actions. Recidivism is defined as an arrest and conviction for an offense committed within two years after release from a previous conviction. Studies have found that the person most likely to contribute to the recidivism rate is an African American male, age 18-25 that has had prior prison convictions, is or was under government surveillance, has or has had a high use of nar

This post was written by Darius Billingsley who is a Law Enforcement and Justice Administration student at WIU currently enrolled in Research Methods. This piece is a synopsis of a research manuscript he produced for the course. In National Needs Assessment Conducted to Determine Juvenile Justice Training and Service Needs, a manuscript written for the Journal of Correctional Education by Dianne Carter, she identifies the following information concerning juvenile justice.   First, The National Institute of Corrections (NIC), and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency and Prevention (OJJDP) entered into an agreement to initiate training for juvenile justice professionals through the National Academy of Corrections. The main goal was to described “current and emerging training service needs for the juvenile justice community.” In this process, over 200 issues and needs were identified; which include, Leadership/Management, Strategic Planning, Programs, Human Resources, Public/C

Gabby Bandovich is currently a LEJA Graduate Assistant and student in the Law Enforcement and Justice Administration Department. She graduated from WIU in May 2019 as a double major in Law Enforcement and Justice Administration and Foreign Languages and Cultures. Gabby will graduate from the LEJA Master’s Program in May 2020 and is looking forward to pursuing a career in federal Law Enforcement. In a book entitled Law Enforcement Ethics: Classic and Contemporary Issues , author Brian Fitch claims “the patchy, haphazard implementation of ethics training remains little more than a knee-jerk reaction to police abuse or corruption” (Fitch, 2014).  Ethics training fails primarily due to its lecture based methods and lack of practical application during training.  Utilizing The Ethics Primer , by James Svara, an evaluation of Fitch’s ideology can be made through Svara’s ethical triangle. Svara claimed that the three concepts within the ethical triangle, virtue, principle, and consequence, ar