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Amy Adamczyk

  • 2008 John Jay College Faculty Scholarly Excellence Award
  • 2008 Donald MacNamara Award with Steven Stack and Liqun Cao for outstanding paper of the year published by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

George Andreopoulos

  • Stavros Niarchos Foundation Grant (2006-2009) for project entitled Policing across borders: strengthening the role of law enforcement in global governance.

Desmond Arias

  • DHS $50,000 
  • START $50,000
  • Tinker $60,000 
  • Fulbright American Council of Learned Societies

Anthony Carpi

  • ($599,870)U.S. Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Carpi, Egger “Teaching the Process of Science,” 10/06-9/09
  • ($3,464,660) U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Carpi, Szur, Kobilinsky, McCullough “A Program for Articulating Community College Students to B.S. Degrees in Science,” 10/06-9/11

Kirk Dombrowski

  • ($40,700) National Science Foundation Cultural Scholars Grant, Stochastic Modeling of Injecting Drug User Networks, Factors for HIV Stabilization Dynamics”.

Joshua Freilich

  • ($200,000)Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, Freilich, J.D., K.J. Terry, S. Penrod, C.B. Strozier, S. Atran, (Steering committee member) E.D. Arias (Steering committee member) & P. Romaniuk (Steering committee member). John Jay College, CUNY, Career Development Program: Training & educating the next generation of homeland security experts and leaders.
  • ($249,680) National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, (START), A Center of Excellence of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, University of Maryland, Freilich, J.D., & S.M. Chermak. Creation of a database of U.S. extremist crime, 1990-2009.
  • ($291,835) Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate. (Scientific Leadership Award for Minority Serving Institutions). 2008-10 J.D. Freilich, K.J. Terry, D. Green, D. Glasford, K. Worboys (Program Director) , S.M. Chermak (Program Director), and M.D. White (Research Associate). Graduate Center, City University of New York: Integrating education, research and professional development efforts to train the next generation of homeland security experts and scholars. Supplemented with funds from a GC, CUNY Social, Behavioral, Economic, Sciences Alliance (SBES); Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) grant ($24,000) National Science Foundation via GC, CUNY
  • ($62,711) National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, (START), A Center of Excellence of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, University of Maryland. 2007-08 Freilich, J.D., & S.M. Chermak. Creation of a database of U.S. extremist crime, 1990-2005.

Mary Gibson

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Grant, 2009-2010
  • Fulbright Senior Research Award (Italy), 2008-2009

Dinni Gordon

  • Mellon Foundation Emeritus Fellowship

John Kleinig

  • LP0560960 Prof SR Miller; Prof J Kleinig; A/Prof TJ Prenzler; Mr A Alexandra; Ms C Nixon; Mr GT Chilvers; Dr SP James; Mr D Bradley An Integrity System for Victoria Police. Linkage grant awarded by the Australian Research Council (ARC).
    2005 : $122,713
    2006 : $167,494
    2007 : $167,494
    2008 : $100,000
  • # 0619226 PIs: John Kleinig; Adina Schwartz; Douglas Salane; Peter Mameli; Brian O’Connell (CCSU); Seumas Miller (CSU/JJC). Security and Privacy: Global Standards for Ethical Identity Management in Contemporary Liberal Democratic Societies. NSF, Science and Society, Awarded September 15, 2006. This project is based at John Jay as part of a three-pronged investigation, with centers in Australia and the European Union.

              2006-2007 : $146,881

              2008 : $96,571

Margaret Kovera

  • ($10,200). National Science Foundation #SES 0752638. (2008-2009) Does Cross-Examination Uncover Deception? Margaret Bull Kovera & Sarah M. Greathouse.
  • ($365,000) National Science Foundation SES# 0520617 (2006-2009) Psychological Mechanisms Underlying the Biasing Effects of Voir Dire. Margaret Bull Kovera.
  • (Pending – $422,749) National Science Foundation SES# 0852331 (2009-2012) Moderators of Lineup Administrator Expectancy Effects on Eyewitness Identification Accuracy. Margaret Bull Kovera
  • (Pending -$160,247) National Science Foundation SES# 0850994 (2009-2011) An Investigation of the Psychological Processes Involved in Juror Rehabilitation. Margaret Bull Kovera
  • (Pending - $10,500) National Science Foundation SES# 0850992 (2009-2010) Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Racially-Biased Peremptory Challenges. Margaret Bull Kovera and Julia Busso Kennard

Peter Mameli

  • 2007 "Security and Privacy: Global Standards for Ethical Identity Management."  Co-Principal Investigator on continuing multi-year National Science Foundation grant (Kleinig - Lead PI)

 

Jeff Mellow
  • 2008-2009 Seizing Public Health Opportunities through Correctional Health Care. Role: Co-principal Investigator Funding: Langeloth Foundation, $134,836
  • 2007-2008 Evaluation of the Community Education Centers’ (CEC) Halfway Back Parolee Program. Role: Co-principal Investigator. Funding: Community Education Center, $24,336
  • 2007-2009  The Transition from Jail to the Community Project. A collaborative grant between Prisoner Reentry Institute, John Jay College and the Urban Institute. Role: Consulting Investigator: Funding: U.S. Department of Justice, $425,000
  • 2006-2009 Evaluation of the Community-Oriented Corrections Health Model inthe Washington, DC Jail System. Role: Co-principal Investigator Funding: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $150,000

Jayne Mooney

  • ‘Kent Police Services for Victims of Rape: moving towards a more comprehensive policy and package’, funded by Kent Police, UK – with Tizard Center, University of Kent

Susan Opotow

  • Pending: After 9/11: Psychological conflict, challenge, and change in New York City, 2001-2006. Submitted to the American Psychological Foundations Weiss Innovative Research Program.
  • Pending: Patterns of Class Skipping: Academic, Peer, and Family Influences on Class Attendance in High School to Social and Behavioral Context for Academic Learning, Institute of Educational Sciences Education, United States Department of Education.

Steve Penrod

  • National Science Foundation. Understanding The Impact On Juries Of Defense Responses To Victim Impact Statements. ($245,813­8/08-8/10).
  • National Science Foundation, Field and Lab Studies of the Effects of Pretrial Publicity on Jurors’ Trial Judgments.  ($275,000, 8/1/06-7/31/09).

Gabrielle Salfati

  • Salfati, C. G. (2008) Linking Serial Crimes Through An Investigation of Behavioral Consistency. Funded by the Gender Equity Project at Hunter College, National Science Foundation -  - PhD students linked to this project as research assistants
  • Salfati. C. G. (pending) Profiling Homicide. National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • Salfati, C. G. (pending) Serial Homicide in South Africa. Guggenheim Foundation - PhD students linked to this project as research assistants
  • Salfati, C. G. (pending) Offender profiling: A History of the Birth of a New Social Science. American Council of Learned Societies
  • Salfati. C. G. (to be submitted Jan 2009) Behavioral Consistency in Serial Crime. National Science Foundation - PhD dissertation linked to this project

Larry Sullivan

  • Kosciuszko Foundation Research Grant for Research in Poland (2007)

Karen Terry

  • 2008-2011  Department of Homeland Security: Integrating education,research and professional development efforts to train the next generationof homeland security experts and scholars. Purpose: Department of Homeland Security Scientific Leadership Award for Minority Serving Institutions, to educate and train young scholars in the field of homeland security.

    Role: Project Director

    Funding amount: $291,835

    Supplemental funding received from National Science Foundation, AGEP grant (awarded to CUNY Graduate Center): $24,000

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  • 2008 – 2010 Department of Homeland Security: Training & Educating The Next Generation Of Homeland Security Experts And Leaders. Purpose: Tofund four doctoral students committed to studying terrorism, and providing them with education, training and mentorship to succeed in the homeland security field.

    Role: Co-Principle Investigator

Funding amount: $200,000

 
  • 2006-2008  NIJ: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. Purpose: Population estimate of youths in New York City who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation, with a particular focus on child prostitution. This is a collaborative grant between John Jay College and the Center for Court Innovation.

              Role: Consulting Investigator

              Funding amount: $229,494 (For John Jay; $520,000 total)

 

  • 2006-2010  U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: Causes and Context Study. Purpose: Conduct a study on the causes and context of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

              Role: Principal Investigator

             Estimated cost of project: $2.5million

             To date, have been awarded: $1,000,000 from USCCB; $100,000      

             from Raskob; $100,000 from “anonymous”; $25,000 from Luce;

             $25,000 from Catholic Health; $25,000 from SC Ministry; $15,000

             from St Joseph Health System; $5,000 from Assisi Foundation of 

             Memphis; and $1,000 from Daughter of Charity Foundation.

Cathy Widom

  • NIH/NICHD (Widom, PI)  2005-2010 Intergenerational Transmission of Neglect and Abuse.
  • Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (Widom, PI)2005-2010 Intergenerational Transmission of Neglect and Abuse
  • R13  NIH conference grant  2007 - 2011 Translational Approaches to Child Neglect Research
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