Drs. AnnMarie and Gary Cordner receive NIJ Grant

The doctors Cordner have received a grant of approximately $250,000 to study the management of the U.S. law enforcement workforce.  Specific issues addressed will include planning, turnover, retention, and the roles of training academies and college criminal justice programs in preparing people for police employment.  Methods will include random sample surveys of criminal justice agencies and of criminal justice educators.  Also sampled will be students from five universities.  A final part of the research will be case studies of 10 police agencies.  The grant will run for 18 months from January 2010.

Dr. Gary Cordner presenting in Washington, December 11th

Prof. Gary Cordner will be one of the presenters at the December 11th conference on "From the Academy to Retirement: A Journey Through the Policing Lifecycle" sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs.

Professor Cordner is one of several co-investigators on the National Police Research Platform, a 3-year federally-funded demonstration project aimed at developing a more in-depth understanding of the "life course" of police officers and police organizations. Longitudinal data are being collected from police recruits and new police sergeants in Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Kentucky. Annual surveys are also being administered to sworn and nonsworn employees in a small sample of police agencies around the country. Police departments in Allentown, Bethlehem, Emmaus, and Catasauqua are among those participating in the study.