Tag: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice


Payton Fey ’21, Criminal Justice

Payton Fey is a senior criminal justice major and psychology minor from Westlake Village, California. After graduation, she plans to attend graduate school with the goal of someday working for the FBI. How did you choose your major?  When I was a freshman at the University, I did not know what I wanted to major in and felt lost trying to figure out what I wanted to do. I took a lot of classes and changed my major twice before […]

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Criminal Justice Professor Raising Awareness of Human Trafficking

From the January 2021 Desktop News | Dr. Brittany Gilmer and students from her class on human trafficking are hoping to make a difference in their communities by raising awareness throughout Tuscaloosa about human trafficking. Gilmer, an associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, first became interested in and started studying the issue of trafficking through her research on Somali pirates. Because of her expertise in the area, Gilmer was asked to create and teach a class […]

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