Director and Professor of the School of Criminal Justice
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Professor Chris Melde is Director of the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Youth Equity Project and the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at MSU. He is a research associate at the Michigan Justice Statistics Center and serves as a subject matter expert for the National Center for School Safety, focusing on the role of law enforcement in school-based delinquency prevention and comprehensive approaches to school safety. His primary research interests include street gangs, youth violence, crime prevention, and individual and community reactions to crime and victimization risk. He is currently the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on several funded projects, including a National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funded long-term follow-up of respondents from the second national evaluation of the Gang Resistance Education and Training Program (G.R.E.A.T.). He also serves as research partner for Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) programs in Detroit and Jackson, Michigan, and a subject matter expert for national training and technical assistance requests for PSN.
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What Do We Know About Policing in Schools?
Sunday, October 15, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM PST
Perceptions and Roles: Considerations for Collaborating with Schools
Monday, October 16, 2023
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM PST
