University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, founded in 1856 and the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. It is the largest university in Maryland and in the Washington metropolitan area, with eleven schools and colleges and more than 200 degree-granting programs. It belongs to the Association of American Universities, and its closeness to Washington, D.C. has produced many research partnerships with the federal government. In the crime atlas it matters through its Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, where criminologists David McDowall and Raymond Paternoster taught.