Candace McCoy
Professor

Email: cmccoy@jjay.cuny.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Bio:

Candace McCoy holds an appointment at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaches in the doctoral program of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  Dr. McCoy received a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California and is a member of the Ohio bar. She specializes in the study of criminal justice policies, researching and teaching on such topics as sentencing, plea bargaining, jury decision-making, and police practices. Her most recent publication on these matters is “Plea Bargaining as Coercion: The Trial Penalty and Plea Bargaining Reform,” The Criminal Law Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 1 (2005).  Professor McCoy has conducted many evaluations of innovative programs and has consulted widely with federal and state criminal justice agencies most recently as Chair of New Jersey=s Criminal Disposition Commission, and is currently working with the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research to develop restorative justice practices as conditions of probation.  She has received the American Society of Criminology’s Herbert Block Award for distinguished service to the profession.

Dr. McCoy's Recent Work

Book Review - Good Courts: The Case for Problem-Solving Justice, by Greg Berman and John Feinblatt, The New Press, 2005. Reviewed in Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 16, No. 12 (December, 2006), access at http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr

CLQ Article 2005 - “Plea Bargaining as Coercion: The Trial Penalty and Plea Bargaining Reform,” The Criminal Law Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 1 & 2, April 2005.

Fyfe Conference Brochure - Brochure for the 2nd Annual James Fyfe Police Accountability Conference

Caleb was Right - “Caleb Was Right: Bail Decisions Do Determine Mostly Everything,” Berkeley Criminal Law Review, fall 2008 (forthcoming)

Impact of Police Litigation - To Protect Life: Readings on Police Accountability (under review for publication by a university press, 2008); wrote introduction to the volume and chapter 8: “How Civil Rights Lawsuits Have Improved American Policing”