Louis Schlesinger is a Professor of Forensic Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY and a Diplomat in Forensic Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is also a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. Dr. Schlesinger served as President of the New Jersey Psychological Association in 1989 and as a Member of the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association from 1991-1994. He was the 1990 recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Karl F. Heiser Presidential Award (1993). Dr. Schlesinger was appointed by the Governor of New Jersey and the Commissioner of Corrections to be a member (and later chair) of the Special Classification Review Board at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center (1980-1987), the State’s forensic facility; he was also appointed (2001) by the President of the New Jersey State Senate and Acting Governor to serve as a member of a Senate Task Force that re-wrote Megan’s Law. Dr. Schlesinger is co-principal investigator of the joint research project between John Jay College and the FBI Behavioral Science Unit studying various types of violent crimes including sexual and serial murder, rape, bias homicide, suicide-by-cop, and other extraordinary criminal behaviors. He has testified in numerous forensic cases and has published many articles, chapters, and nine other books on the topics of homicide, sexual homicide, and criminal psychopathology. |
