Staci Strobl, Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, was invited to speak at a Congressional briefing hosted by Human Rights First in Washington, D.C. along with U.S. Representative Jim McGovern (D-Mass.); Mohammed al Tajer, Bahraini Human Rights Lawyer; and Brian Dooley, Director of Human Rights Defenders for Human Rights First; to discuss police and security reform in Bahrain.  Human Rights First is a non-profit, nonpartisan international human rights organization.

Listen to Professor Strobl discussion with Brian Dooley of Human Rights First about the challenges to reform in Bahrain, here.

Click here to read Huffington Post op-ed, “Four Years On, U.S. Should Push Bahrain to Reform Security Forces,” written by Professor Strobl and Brian Dooley.

Read Professor Strobl’s Crimcast blog recent calls for reform in Bahrain, here.

In 2009, Professor Strobl was awarded the British Journal of Criminology's Radzinowicz Memorial Prize for her work on the criminalization of domestic workers in Bahrain.  Her areas of specialization are women in policing in the Arabian Gulf, multiethnic policing in Eastern Europe, and comic book portrayals of crime in the United States.  Earlier in her career, she worked as a U.S. Probation Officer and a crime journalist.