Current Students
Jisun Choi
Research Interest: Sex Offender Profiling in South Korea Compare to the United States, Media, Politics, and Crime, Criminal Justice History in South Korea, Utilization of Computer Software in Criminal Justice Research and System, Mixed Method.
Email: jchoi@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Emily Pelletier
Research Interest: Juvenile delinquency prevention and diversion programs in rural communities.
Email: emilykpelletier@gmail.com
Nikolaos Petropoulos
Research Interests: International terrorism, left-wing terrorism and political violence, homeland security, crime prevention and police reform.
Email: Emailnickpetrop@yahoo.gr
Cynthia-Lee Maragh
Research Interests: Understanding of how environmental influences and social institutions contribute to the formation of criminal identities, criminological theory, the impact of incarceration, and the intersection of race, crime, and substandard urban living.
Email: cmaragh2@gmail.com
Colleen Mills
Research Interests: Hate crimes, capital punishment and issues related to race, crime, and justice; Criminal Justice from a historical point of view, especially in topics of hate crimes, organized crime, landmark SCOTUS decisions, and modern American crime legislation.
Email: colleenmills121@gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae
Eranga Fernando
Reseaecrh Interest: Gang violence; risk factors associated with teens joining gangs.
Email: erangaf01@gmail.com
Margaret Schmuhl
Research Interests: Evaluation of criminal justice programs and crime policy, sex offender policy, human rights, domestic and international terrorism, and hacktivism.
Email: maggieschmuhl4@gmail.com
Policy, Oversight & Administration
David Topel
Research Interest: Coordination of international law enforcement policies between countries in the Americas, drug trafficking and prisons, the culture of political corruption and the power of illegal markets to influence institutions.
Email: Djtopel2000@gmail.com
Hollis B. K. Kegg
Research interests: White Collar Crime
Email: Hollis_Kegg@Hotmail.com
Ronald Day
Research Interests: Research interests include reentry, desistance, recidivism, parole policy, and correctional health care.
Email: ronaldf.day@gmail.com
Jason Ostrowe
Research interest: Organizational performance, leadership and training.
Email: jostrowe@gc.cuny.edu
Marie Springer
Research Interests: Federal Agency Accountability. Current papers: Ponzi schemes and federal agencies.
Email: mspringer@jjay.cuny.edu
Sarah Fritsche
Research Interests: The use and implications of actuarial risk and need assessment in criminal justice contexts, community-based youth violence prevention (e.g., “Ceasefire”), and jail diversion models, research ethics and human subject’s protection, collateral consequences of incarceration, community and restorative justice, applied research with marginalized groups, and the translation of research to practice and policy.
Email: sadiepicard@gmail.com
Current Students
Michael Aiello
Email: mikeilo-07@sbcglobal.net
Mohsen S. Alizadeh
Research interests: Criminology; International Criminal Justice; Interrogation
Email: Malizadeh@jjay.cuny.edu
Catrin Andersson
Research Interest: Violence, cross-national research, statistics, research methods
Email: candersson@gc.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Marc Balcells Magrans
Research interests: Looting in archaeological sites; Art crimes; International and comparative criminology; History of crime and criminology; Qualitative research methods; GLBT-criminological related issues
Email: mbalcellsmagrans@jjay.cuny.edu
Kevin Barnes-Ceeney
Research interests: Assessment and management of risk and dangerousness, parole and probation decision making, corrections, prisonization, critical criminology, evidence-based practice and reentry services, motivational interviewing and relapse prevention.
Email: kevinbckaz@hotmail.com
Jeanene Barrett
Email: JIBarrett01@sbcglobal.net
Sarah Bennett
Research interests: Political violence, Terrorism- radicalization, National security issues pertaining to energy, International Human Rights
Email: sarah.bennett119@gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae
Chelsea Binns
Research interests: White collar crime
Email: cbinns@gc.cuny.edu
Cirriculum Vitae
Katharine Boyd
Research Interest: Religious and politically motivated violence, terrorism, counterterrorism policy, ecological theory
Email: kboyd@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Marialuz Bribiesca
Research interests: Criminology and Deviance
Email: mbribiesca@gc.cuny.edu
Delene Bromirski
Email: dbromirski@jjay.cuny.edu
Jessica Cabrera
Email: jcabrera@jjay.cuny.edu
Joel Capellan
Research interests: Domestic terrorism; international terrorism; intelligence led policing; extreme right and left wing ideology; intended and unintended consequences of anti-terrorist policies.
Email: joelcapellan@gmail.com
Katie Carroll
Research interests: Crime and mass media; Public perception and construction of crime and deviance, particularly extreme violence
Email: kcarroll@jjay.cuny.ed
Fabiola Ceballos-Durham
Research interests: Forensice Psychology
Email: fceballos@jjay.cuny.edu
Sriram Chintakrindi
Email: schintakrindi@hotmail.com
Michelle Cubellis
Research Interest: Sex offender policies, prosecutorial discretion, jail and prison misconduct, gender and crime, and preventive detention of terrorists
Email: mcubellis@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Noah Cypher
Email: ncypher@jjay.cuny.edu
Kristen Englander
Research interests:Prisoner Reentry
Email: KEnglander@gc.cuny.edu
Cory Feldman
Research interests: Prison, reentry, violence, immigration and removal.
Email: feldmancory@gmail.com
Adam Fera
Email: adamfera25@gmail.com
Riccardo Ferraresso
Email: rferraresso@jjay.cuny.edu
Kendra Gentry
Research Interests: Environmental Criminology; Crime and Public Transportation; Technology and Crime; Crime and Media; Policing; Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods; Criminological Theory; GIS Applications in Criminal Justice
Email: kgentry@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Marna Goodman
Research interests: Juvenile Justice/juvenile reentry
Email: marnagoodman@msn.com
Maurice Green
Research interests: Prisoner reentry and recidivism, black male identity and achievement, inequality, societal stigma and labeling theory
Email: magreen@jjay.cuny.edu
Ken Grossberger
Research interests: use of security guards as a protective layer in homeland security, combined security systems, origins and the development of the need for protection in society, public private partnerships in loss prevention and law enforcement, national security licensing public policy, and constitutional protection of individual rights in the electronic world.
Email: kjg2@msn.com
Nicole N. Hanson
Research Interests: The symbiosis between media and political violence; relationships between public opinion and criminal justice policy decisions; inequality, social control, and state power; efficacy and ethics of crime policy
Email: hansonnicolen@gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website
Alexandra Harocopos
Email: alexharocopos@hotmail.com
Brittany Hayes
Email: bhayes@jjay.cuny.edu
Alana Henninger
Research interests: Human Trafficking, International Human Rights, Violence Against Women, and Public Health Issues in Criminal Justice Populations
Email: ahenninger@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Maya Hess
Research interests: Foreign-language dimension of U.S. national security; Terrorism trials; Federal Bureau of Prisons' Special Administrative Measures (SAMs); Red T
Email: mayahess@aol.com
Rebecca Hill
Research interests: International criminal justice, cross-national research, critical criminology, and extremist violence
Email: rhill@jjay.cuny.edu
Alexandra Hiropoulos
Research interests: Behavioral Aspects of Serial Sexual Offending; Policing; Police Interviewing of Victims of Rape; International Human Rights and Women’s Rights; Sexual Violence in Conflict Situations
Email: ahiropoulos@jjay.cuny.edu
Karen Holt
Research interests: Cultural and critical criminology, sexual deviance, the history of sexuality
Email: kholt@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Amber M. Horning
Research interests: Violent crime, cross-national/cultural comparisons and offender narratives
Email: amber.horning@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Tarra Jackson
Research interests: Social justice, decision-making, terrorism, public fear and risk perception, and citizen crime reporting/snitching.
Email: tarra.jackson@gmail.com
Jeremiah Johnson
Research interests: Police professionalization, police misconduct / use of force, and criminal justice policy.
Ashmini Gopie Kerodal
Research interests: Radicalization of far-right extremists; domestic terrorism; general human rights concerns
Email: akerodal@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Chunrye Kim
Email: chunrye@gmail.com
Phillip Kopp
Research interests: Policing, criminal justice and mass media, and research methods
Email: pkopp@jjay.cuny.edu
Sally Lam
Research interests: Violence, mental disorders, and quantitative methods
Email: sallylamhp@gmail.com
Curriculum Vitae
Leonid Lantsman
Research interests: U.S. Port and Maritime security, sub-Saharan African port security, Environmental criminology, GIS and seaport crime, African criminal networks
Pauline Leary
Email: pleary@jjay.cuny.edu
Daiwon Lee
Email: dlee@jjay.cuny.edu
Jennifer Leonard
Email: leonarjq@gmail.com
Shirley Leyro
Research Interests: The effects of deportation on the social organization of immigrant communities, immigration and crime, social disorganization and the Latino Paradox.
Email: sleyro@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Laura Litvinoff
Research interests: Street gangs, youth prostitution, juvenile delinquency, sexual deviancy and treatment (i.e. in the Catholic Church)
Email: LLitvinoff@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Timothy Malin
Research interests: Police Department Policy-making; Police Officer Development; Creating Responsiveness and Efficiency in Bureaucracies; Public-Private Partnerships in Law Enforcement; Factors Influencing Police Officer Productivity; Police-Community Relations in High Crime Environments
Email: tmalin99@gmail.com
Kevin McCarthy
Research interests: Courts, public corruption, prosecutorial discretion, organized crime, crime in movies
Email: kmccarthy@jjay.cuny.edu
Paul McMillen
Research interests: International and comparative policing, History of policing, critical criminology, situational crime prevention, terrorism
Evan Misshula
Email: emisshula@jjay.cuny.edu
Roslyn Myers
Research interests: Crime victimization in severe violent interpersonal crime; offender accountability; restorative justice; trauma and cognitive neuroscience; and the gap between law and justice.
Email: rmyers@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Yvonne Neiman
Email: yneiman@jjay.cuny.edu
Suzanne Rebecca Neusteter
Research interests: Reentry, diversion, rehabilitation, and justice reinvestment
Email: sneusteter@jjay.cuny.edu
Jennifer Ortiz
Research interests: juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice and female delinquency
Email: jeortiz@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Jeffery Osborne
Research interests: the analysis of violent crime, empirical offender profiling, data collection methodology and techniques, journey-to-crime research, and the analysis of deception detection cues.
Email: josborne@gc.cuny.edu
Gabriel Paez
Email: gpaez@jjay.cuny.edu
Amalia Paladino
Research interests: Rape and homicide of prostitutes; sex trafficking
Email: amalia.paladino@gmail.com
Lauren Paradis
Email: lparadis@jjay.cuny.edu
Bryce Peterson
Research interests: Correctional policy, administration, misconduct, and violence; prisoner reentry; sentencing enhancements; cross-national research; theory testing; quantitative methods
Email: bpeterson@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Lorraine Phillips
Research interests: Public perceptions of law and policy,
gendered crimes, immigration, and the relationship between social psychology and criminal justice policy
Email: lphillips@jjay.cuny.edu
Ira Promisel
Email: ipromisel@jjay.cuny.edu
Dale K. Purcell
Research interests: Microscopy and microanalysis of small particles of forensic importance and source determination.
Email: chemistdp@hotmail.com
Cassandra Ramdath
Research interests: Re-entry of incarcerated youth, re-entry of identified gang members, corrections and therapeutic communities, jail culture (inmates and co's), crime prevention through access to resources in marginalized communities
Email: cramdath@jjay.cuny.edu
Crystal Rodriguez
Research interests: Juvenile Justice and delinquency; Program and Policy evaluation; Crime, Race and Ethnicity in Criminal Justice; Policing and Courts; Nighttime Security Industry; Gangs; Prisoner Reentry.
Email: crodriguez@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Martha Rose
Research interests: White collar crime, forensic accounting, organizational psychopathology, criminalization of the mentally ill
Christina Ruffino
Email: christina.ruffino@jjay.cuny.edu
Deborah Sawers Kaiser
Research interests: Juvenile justice; corrections; supermaximum security prisons; violent offenders
Email: dsawers@gc.cuny.edu
Martin Schonteich
Research interests:Criminal justice reform in transitional societies; prosecutorial independence and accountability; pretrial justice; immigration, public perceptions and public security.
Email: mschonteich@jjay.cuny.edu
Julie Ahmad Siddique
Research interests: Sexual victimization, family and relationship violence, criminological theories, long-term crime trends, and research methods and statistics
Email: julie.siddique@gmail.com
Odessa Simms
Research interests: Female sex offenders, underage prostitution, situational crime prevention and routine activities theory
Email: osimms@gc.cuny.edu
Celia Sporer
Research interests: Domestic violence; policing
Email: csporer@jjay.cuny.edu
Daniel Stageman
Research interests: immigration, immigrant detention and deportation, immigrant labor exploitation, political economy of punishment, corrections, reentry, correctional education
Email: dstageman@jjay.cuny.edu
Margret Valdimarsdottir
Research interests: Sociology of law and punishment, criminal and public opinion/the media, juvenile delinquency, sexual violence and abuse, social disorganization, and research methods.
Email: mvaldimarsdottir@gc.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Julie Viollaz
Research interests: leopard poaching and other wildlife crime, environmental criminology, art theft and how to prevent it using situational crime prevention methods, recruitment into terrorist organizations through spouses or partners, quantitative methods.
Email: jviollaz@jjay.cuny.edu
Megan Welsh
Research interests: Prisoner reentry; juvenile justice; social work in criminal justice settings; feminist and critical criminology; and qualitative research methods
Email: mwelsh@jjay.cuny.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Seokhee Yoon
Research interests: Victimization, research methods, evidence based policy, collateral effects of prison
Email: yoon0214@gmail.com
Cyann Zoller
Research interests: Corrections, Theories of Punishment/Penology, Religious Programming, Role of Religion in Corrections and the Lives of the Incarcerated
Email: cyann.zoller@gmail.com
Sara Airall
Stephen Chavez
Monica Cherry
Timothy Clifford
Andrew Costello
Tonya Desa
Peter Diaczuk
LaNina Floyd
Felice Harris/Howard
Samantha James
Misha Lars
Michael Liddie
Yolanda Ortiz
Michael Pass
Francis Spangenberg
Scott White
Nicole Wimberger
Sue-Lin Wong