Faculty by Name

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Amy Adamczyk
Associate Professor: Religion, deviance and crime, sociological theory, health

George Andreopoulos
Professor: War Crimes; Crimes against Humanity & Genocide

Enrique "Desmond" Arias
Associate Professor: Comparative Politics, Political Theory, International Political Economy & International Relations, and Policy, Oversight and Administration

Jana Arsovska
Assistant Professor: International Criminal Justice, Criminology Sociology

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Rosemary Barbaret
Associate Professor: Crime indicators, violence against women, gender and crime, cross-cultural methodology

David Brotherton
Professor: Juvenile Crime & Justice; Gangs; Qualitative Research; Ethnographic Methods in Criminal Justice

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Shuki Cohen
Assistant Professor: Psychology and Criminology

Angela Crossman
Associate Professor: Memory Development; Child Suggestibility; Child Witness Accuracy & Credibility; Deception & False Beliefs

Ric Curtis
Professor: Qualitative Research Methods

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Mark R. Fondacaro
Professor: Procedural and distributive justice, multicultural competence and decision making, ecological jurisprudence, family conflict resolution, and juvenile justice

Joshua D. Freilich
Executive Officer & Professor: Domestic terrorism, environmental criminology, criminological theory

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Yu Gao
Assistant Professor: Psychology, Neurocriminology, Criminological Theory

Robert Garot
Assistant Professor: Immigration, Deviance: Gangs, Law and Society, Sociology

Gwendolyn Gerber
Professor: Forensic Psychology; Gender Issues in Policing & CRJ Police Personality Quantitative Research; Sexual Abuse & Marital Violence; Police Partners

Mary Gibson
Professor: History of Criminology; European Criminal Justice; Female Crime

William Gottdiener
Associate Professor: Psychotherapeutic treatments for severe psychopathology; Underlying psychological processes involved in comorbid substance use disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder; Education and training issues in psychology generally and clinical psychology broadly

David Green
Assistant Professor: Crime and the media, crime and public opinion, crime and political culture, comparative criminology, sentencing, sociology of punishment, qualitative methods

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Maria (Maki) Haberfeld
Professor: Policing with emphasis on comparative, training, leadership, integrity and ethics; comparative criminal justice; counter-terrorism.

Maria Hartwig
Associate Professor: Psychology of deception and its detection, Interviewing to detect deception and truth, & the social cognitive psychology of guilt and innocence.

Joan Hoffman
Associate Professor: Economics and Crime, and Policy, Oversight and Administration

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Delores Jones-Brown
Professor: Race & Crime; Race & the Administration of Justice; Sociology of Law; Juvenile Justice; Legal Socialization of Adolescent Males

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Saul Kassin
Distinguised Professor: Psychology and the law, Trial Procedure, Police Interrogation & Confessions, Eyewitness Identification & Testimony

Lila Kazemian
Associate Professor: Life-course and criminal career research; Desistance from crime; Sentencing policies; Comparative research; Offender reentry

David Kennedy
Professor: Crime Prevention Strategies;Policing; Gangs &Deterrence, Policy, Oversight and Administration

Bilal Khan
Professor: Networks; computer security; digital forensics; wireless communications, modeling and simulation in anthropology, criminal justice, and epidemiology

Deborah Koetzle
Associate Professor: Public Management

Margaret Kovera
Professor: Social Psychology

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Anthony Lemelle
Professor: Criminal Justice, Sociology

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Evan J. Mandery
Associate Professor: Capital Punishment, Evidence Law & Ethics

Keith A. Markus
Professor: Test Validity; Program Evaluation; Discourse, Organizational Structure & Change; Interpretation of Statistical & Causal Models and Policy, Oversight and Administration

Michael Maxfield
Professor: Environmental Criminology, Research Methods, Policing, and Policy, Oversight & Administration

Candace McCoy
Professor: Courts, Law and Society; Plea Bargaining and Sentencing

Jeff Mellow
Deputy Executive Officer & Professor: Corrections, reentry, evaluation of criminal justice programs, evidence based practices in prisons and jails

Cynthia Mercado
Associate Professor: Clinical Psychology

Jayne Mooney
Associate Professor: Gender and Violence, Feminist Criminology, European Criminology, Victimology

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Mangai Natarajan
Professor: Criminological Theory, Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping, Cross-Cultural Studies in Criminal Justice, Drug Trafficking

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Maureen O’Connor
Professor: Law & Psychology; Intersection of Psychology; Gender & Law; Scientific Evidence; Mental Health Law & Policy

Susan Opotow
Professor: Sociology

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Steven Penrod
Distinguished Professor: Legal Decision Making; Jury Decision Making; Eye Witness Reliability; Media Effects

Jeremy Porter
Associate Professor: Research methods/quantitative analysis, social theory, social demography, social inequalities, criminology/criminal justice. the spatial analysis of social data, sociology of religion and urban sociology

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Chitra Raghavan
Associate Professor: Intimiate partner homicide; Intimate partner rape; femicide and Policy, Oversight and Administration

Valli Rajah
Associate Professor: Race and Ethnic Relations, Intimate Partner Violence, Sociological Theory & Substance Use

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Gabrielle Salfati
Professor: Offender Profiling; Homicide; Sexual Offences; Research Methodology

Louis B. Schlesinger
Professor: Criminal Behavior & Homicides

Jon M. Shane
Assistant Professor: Police policy and practice, violent crime, and situational crime prevention. Theoretical interests include routine activities, social disorganization and environmental criminology.

Cathy Spatz Widom
Distinguished Professor: Psychology, Quantitative Research Methods

Charles Strozier
Professor: American history with special interests in the history of violence and the new terrorism, psychohistory and Lincoln and the Civil War

Larry Sullivan
Professor: Advanced Criminology; Theory & punishment; Prison Reform

Hung-En Sung
Professor: Substance abuse and its treatments, political corruption, policing, comparative criminal justice, and program evaluation

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Karen Terry
Professor: Sexual Abuse, victimization, sex offender policy

Jeremy Travis
President, Professor: Prisoner Reentry; Criminal Justice Policy; Corrections Policy and Impact of Incarceration

Lucia Trimbur
Assistant Professor

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Mark Ungar
Associate Professor: Criminal Justice Policy, Inspection and Oversight

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Elin Waring
Professor, Lehman College, Sociology:  White-collar crime

Valerie West
Assistant Professor: Criminal Justice, Sociology

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Jock Young
Distinguished Professor: Sociology of Deviancy; Criminology; Mass Media Studies

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Patricia A. Zapf
Associate Professor: Forensic Psychology; Competencies (criminal and civil) and Decision Making Capacity; Forensic Assessment; Development and Validation of Forensic Assessment Instruments; Psychometrics; Insanity

POLICY, OVERSIGHT & ADMINISTRATION FACULTY

Warren “Ned” Benton
Professor: Public Administration; Organizational Theory; Corrections; Computer & Criminal Justice

Roddrick A. Colvin
Associate Professor: Public Management, Employment policy, hate crimes, gay rights

Diana Gordon
Professor Emeritus: Immigration and Justice; Criminal Justice Policy; Comparative Criminal Justice

Salomon Guajardo
Professor: Policy, Oversight & Administration

Deborah Koetzle
Associate Professor: Public Management

Peter Mameli
Associate Professor: Inspection and Oversight; Public Management

Patrick O’Hara
Associate Professor: Organization & Management

Marilyn Marks Rubin
Professor: Economics and Crime, Measurement of Crime

Richard W. Schwester
Associate professor: Public Management, Organization Theory and Management, Research Methods

FORENSIC SCIENCE FACULTY

Anthony Carpi
Professor: Environmental and forensic toxicology

Peter De Forest
Professor Emeritus: John Jay College Department of Science

Donald Hoffman
Associate Professor: Forensic Toxicology and Chemistry

Lawrence Kobilinsky
Professor: Molecular biology, biology, forensic DNA analysis

Thomas Kubic
Associate Professor: Chemical Instrumentation; Electron Microscopy; Light Microscopy; Scientific Evidence

Richard Li
Professor: Forensic Science, Forensic Biology and Molecular Biology.

Nicholas D. K. Petraco
Associate Professor: tatistical pattern recognition of trace evidence, Quantum Chemistry, and Mathematical Chemical Physics.

John Reffner
Associate Professor: Developing microscopy, Microanalysis and imaging technology & Exploring their utility in forensic science

Margaret Wallace
Associate Professor: Forensic Science; Biochemistry; Molecular Biology and Genetics