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Criminologist, Professor, Scholar, & Consultant
Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, College of Public Affairs, and a Research Fellow in the Center for International and Comparative Law, and the Schaefer Center for Public Policy at the University of Baltimore. He has been a Visiting Professor at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, and University of Padua, Italy.
Progressives need to be more critical of Assange
/by Jeffrey Ian RossOver the past four years, numerous high-profile national political dramas have unfolded, some with international implications. One of them has been the United States government’s attempt to extradite Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks, from the United Kingdom to the United States, primarily for computer security violations. Assange, who until recently overstayed his welcome as […]
Lies, Damn Lies and Thugs on a plane: Why do Conspiracy Theories exist and what to do about them?
/by Jeffrey Ian RossThis past week President Donald Trump announced, in an interview with Fox News Host Laura Ingraham, that he had intelligence about masked men, dressed in black, who travelled on a plane to Washington DC to disrupt the Republican convention. Shortly after this interview aired it was discovered, like so many other of his stories (e.g. […]
Preventing peaceful protests from being hijacked by people engaging in violence
/by Jeffrey Ian RossWe’ve seen the peaceful protests, the looters, the police use of excessive force, and now the vigilantes. For peaceful protestors, the majority of those out in the streets exercising their first amendment rights, this moment in American history cannot be overlooked. It’s pivotal. We care about living in cities and a country where African-American citizens […]