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UNO Criminal Justice Professor Gains National Exposure as Expert on Policing

UNO Criminology and Criminal Justice associate professor gains national exposure as an expert on policing.

  • published: 2020/08/31
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Dr. Justin Nix, associate professor of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (SCCJ) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), has gained national exposure lately on policing.

In fact, Dr. Nix is now known as an expert in the developing research area of policing. His recent assistance on the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report on police shootings. Nix was responsible for conceptualizing and performing analyses, crafted the results, and helped the ACLU use the data in a meaningful way.

ACLU Report

The ACLU wrote the introduction to the report and made its own recommendations.

Media Coverage

Additional articles about the report and its importance to the field of policing are below:

  • NBC News, republished by MSN.com and Yahoo! News.
  • Time.com
  • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, republished by the Fond Du Lac Reporter and the Stevens Point Journal.
  • Voice of America and a few iHeartRadio stations.

Read Dr. Nix’s full bio here.

About the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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