Criminal Justice Ph.D.
CUNY Graduate Center CUNY John Jay


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Marc Balcells Magrans
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: mbalcellsmagrans@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Kevin Barnes-Ceeney
Level 1

Areas of interest: 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

 

Short Bio

      

 

Roberta Belli
Level 3

Areas of specialization: International Criminal Justice

Dissertation:

Advisor:

Email: rbelli@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

Sarah Bennett
Level 1

Areas of interest: Political violence, Terrorism- radicalization, National security issues pertaining to energy, International Human Rights

Email: sarah.bennett119@gmail.com

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Chelsea Binns
Level 1

 

 

Areas of interst: White collar crime

 

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Kideste Wilder Bonner
Level 3

Areas of specialization: Policing, Race/ethnicity and Inequality, and Criminal justice Policy

Dissertation: "Building a Model for Policing Communities with
Competing and Converging Interests"

Advisor: Dr. Todd Clear

Email: kwilder@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

Katharine Boyd
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: kboyd@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Marialuz Bribiesca
Level 3

Areas of specialization: Criminology and Deviance

Dissertation: "On-line Child Victimization and the role of Social Networks

Advisor: Dr. Karen Terry

Email: mbribiesca@gc.cuny.edu

 

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Delene Bromirski
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email:dbromirski@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Andrea Cantora
Level 3

Areas of specialization: Program evaluation; correctional rehabilitation and policy; juvenile justice; offender reentry; women offenders and gender-responsive programming

Dissertation: Perceptions of Correctional Treatment: Understanding how Women Offenders Respond to a Female Halfway House

Advisor: Dr. Jeff Mellow

Email: acantora@jjay.cuny.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Katie Carroll
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: kcarroll@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

David Caspi
Level 3

Areas of specialization: Law and Policy

Dissertation: Applying Affiliation Network Analysis to investigate the interconnectedness of domestic extremists, specifically white supremacists

Advisor: Dr. Joshua Freilich

Email: dcaspi@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

Fabiola Ceballos
Level 3

Areas of specialization: Forensice Psychology

Dissertation: Multiple-Offender vs. Single Offender Homicides in the Dominican Republic

Advisor:  Dr. C. Gabrielle Salfati

Email: fceballos@gc.cuny.edu

 

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Andrew Costello
Level 1

Dissertation: Lineups; COMPSTAT; Investigations; Life Course Theory

 

 

 

 

 

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Anna Crayton
Level 2

Areas of specialization: Criminal Justice Policy and Practice

Dissertation: The effects of long-term imprisonment on recidivism

Advisor: Dr. Todd Clear

Email: anna.crayton@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

John DeCarlo
Level 2

Areas of specialization: Policy and Practice

Dissertation: Measuring the difference in eyewitness performance between police officers and civilians

Advisor: Jennifer Dysart, PhD

Email: j.decarlo@jjay.cuny.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Kristen Englander
Level 2

Areas of specialization: Prisoner Reentry

Email: KEnglander@gc.cuny.edu

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Gipsy Escobar
Level 2

Areas of specialization: Social disorganization, violent crime, collective violence, social capital, cross-national studies, quantitative methods

Dissertation: Homicide in Bogota: Do Social Capital and Collective Efficacy Matter?

Advisor: Dr. Jim Lynch

Email: gipsy.escobar@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae

 

     

 

Brian Evans
Level 1

Areas of interest: Criminal Justice Policy, Criminological Theory

 

Email: bsevans_99@hotmail.com

 

 

Cory Feldman
Level 1

 

Email: feldmancory@gmail.com

 

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Douglas Green

Areas of interest: The effects of traumatic stress on law enforcement officers, the study of psychosexual offenders, and American immigration law and it’s enforcement

Dissertation: Traumatic Stress, World Assumptions, and Law Enforcement Officers

Advisor: Dr. Louis Schlesinger

Email: dgreen@gc.cuny.edu

 

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Nicole N. Hanson
Level 1

Areas of interest: Juvenile Justice; links between norm development and crime policy; Inequality, Social Control, and state power; and Efficacy and ethics of crime policy

Email: hansonnicolen@gmail.com

 

Short Bio

 

Matasha Harris

Level 3

Areas of interest: Prisoner Reentry, Domestic Violence, Criminal Justice Policy

Dissertation: African Americans Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence During Reentry.

Advisor: Dr. Todd Clear

Email: mharris@jjay.cuny.edu

 

Brittany Hayes
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

Email:bhayes@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Christopher Herrmann
Level 3

Areas of interest: Crime Mapping, Crime Analysis, Criminology, & Juvenile Delinquency

Email:crherrmann@gmail.com

 

Curriculum Vitae

      

 

Alexandra Hiropoulos
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email:ahiropoulos@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Amber M. Horning
Level 1

Areas of interest: Violent crime, cross-national/cultural comparisons and offender narratives

Advisor: Dr. Gabrielle Salfati

Email: amber.horning@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Tarra Jackson

Level 1

Areas of interest: Social justice, decision-making, terrorism, public fear and risk perception, and citizen crime reporting/snitching.

Dissertation: TBA

Advisor: Dr. Josh Freilich

Email: tarra.jackson@gmail.com

 

Jeremiah Johnson
Level 1

Areas of interest: Police professionalization, police misconduct / use of force, and criminal justice policy.

Short Bio

 

Ashmini Gopie Kerodal

Level 1

Areas of interest: Consequenses of anti-terrorist policies, Policy and program evaluation, and sexual assault and domestic violence

 

Email: ashmini_gopie@yahoo.com

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Phillip Kopp

Level 1

Areas of interest: policing, criminal justice and mass media, and research methods

Dissertation:

Advisor:

Email: pkopp@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

Leonid Lantsman
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: llantsman@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Zainab Latif

Level 2

Areas of interest: Ecological approaches in the study of crime

Dissertation: Violence, social networks, and state legitimacy: studying robbery in Karachi, Pakistan

Advisor: Dr. Jim Lynch

Email: zainablatif@yahoo.com

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Pauline Leary
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: paleary@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Lauren Leighton
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: lleighton@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Shirley Leyro
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: sleyro@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Laura Litvinoff

Level 1

Areas of interest: Street gangs, youth prostitution, juvenile delinquency, sexual deviancy and treatment (i.e. in the Catholic Church)

Email: LELitvinoff@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Paul McMillen

Level 2

 

Areas of interest: International and comparative policing, History of policing, critical criminology, situational crime prevention, terrorism

 

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Evan Misshula
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: emisshula@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

Roslyn Myers
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: rmyers@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Suzanne Neusteter

Level 1

 

Areas of interest: Diversion and Reenty

 

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Amalia Paladino

Level 1

Areas of interest: Rape and homicide of prostitutes; sex trafficking

Dissertation:

Advisor:

Email: amalia.paladino@gmail.com

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

William Parkin

Level 1

 

Areas of interest: Terrorism

 

Email: wparkin@jjay.cuny.edu

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Meredith Patten

Level 3

Dissertation: American Sports Fans: What Makes Them Tick, and Sometimes Explode; and What Attributes of the Arena Contribute to Fan Incidents

Advisor: Dr. Joshua Freilich

 

Email: mpatten@gc.cuny.edu

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Karen Pepper
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: kpepper@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Geoff Rab

Level 2

 

Areas of interest: Deportee gangs and crime; ethnography; critical and cultural cirminology; international border crime

 

Email: hefro1@gmail.com

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Cassandra Ramdath
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: cramdath@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

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Brian Rizzo

Level 3

Dissertation: Governing Police: The New York City Police Commissioner and Mayor: 1901 - 2000.

Advisor: Dr. Todd Clear

 

Email: milopatch@aol.com

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Crystal Rodriguez

Level 2

Areas of interest: Juvenile Justice and delinquency; Program and Policy evaluation; Crime, Race and Ethnicity in Criminal Justice; Policing and Courts; Nighttime Security Industry; Gangs; Prisoner Reentry.

Dissertation: Youth Assessing the Cultural Competency of the Juvenile Justice System

Advisor: Dr. Mark Fondacaro

Email: crodriguez@jjay.cuny.edu

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Martha Rose

Level 1

 

Areas of interest: White collar crime, forensic accounting, organizational psychopathology, criminalization of the mentally ill

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Meghan Sacks

Level 3

Areas of interest: Sentencing legislation; policy and reform, plea bargaining and bail reform, Probation; parole and community corrections; Criminological theory and deviance

Dissertation:

Advisor:  Dr. Candace McCoy

Email: megsacks@yahoo.com

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Vincenzo A. Sainato

Level 3

Areas of interest: Economic development and crime, Effects of technology on governance and criminal justice, Surveillance studies

Dissertation: Policing the creation and use of digital surveillance systems the police, a new application of Situational Crime Prevention

Advisor:  Dr. Pat O'Hara

Email: vsainato@mac.com

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Martin Schonteich
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: mschonteich@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Andrew Schweighardt

Level 1

Areas of interest: human identity testing, counterterrorism, and pathogen detection.

Dissertation:

Advisor:

Email: ny108@msn.com

 

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Zachary Shemtob
Level 2

 

Areas of specialization: Philosophy of Law, Law and Linguistics, Theories of Punishment

Dissertation: Closure and Capital Punishment

Advisor: Dr. Evan Mandery

Email: baronshemtob@gmail.com

 

 

Amy Shlosberg

Level 1

Areas of interest: Causes and remedies of wrongful convictions

 

 

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Julie Ahmad Siddique

Level 2

Areas of interest: Sexual victimization, long-term crime trends, comparative criminal justice, research methods and statistics

Dissertation:

Advisor:

Email: julie.siddique@gmail.com

 

 

Odessa Simms

Level 2

Areas of interest:

Dissertation: An Analysis of the Effect of Registry Laws and Victim/Offender Relationship on Female
Sex Offenders

Advisor: Dr. Karen Terry

Email: osimms@gc.cuny.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Celia Sporer

Level 2

Areas of interest: Domestic violence; policing

Email: csporer@jjay.cuny.edu

 

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Daniel Stageman
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email: dstageman@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Robert Tarwacki

Level 3

Areas of interest: Police stress and behavioral changes; Policies and standards for police handguns and ammunition; Use of pharmaceuticals in controlling deviant juvenile behavior. Validity and reliability of polygraph testing procedures.

Dissertation: Investigating Excellence: Identifying the factors that constitute a quality investigation.

Advisor: Dr. Ned Benton

Email: rtarwacki@jjay.cuny.edu

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Carrie Trojan

Level 3

Areas of interest: Forensic Psychology

Dissertation: Examining the criminal histories of homicide offenders: A comparison of single-victim and serial homicide and the link between prior offending and homicide crime scene behaviors.

Advisor: Dr. C. Gabrielle Salfati

Email: ctrojan@jjay.cuny.edu

 

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Peter Valentin

Level 1

Areas of interest: Forensic Science

 

Email: peter@valentinforensics.com

 

 

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Julie Viollaz

Level 1

Areas of interest: Terrorist profiling, cross-national comparisons of criminal justice policy, philosophy of law, gangs 

Julie is managing editor for the Journal of Quantitative Criminology

 

Email: jviollaz@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

Brenda Vollman

Level 3


Areas of interest: Criminology and Deviance

Email: brenda.vollman@gmail.com

 

Bio

 

Brooke Anne Weinger

Level 1


Areas of interest: Forensic Science

Dissertation:

Advisor:

Email: bweinger@yahoo.com

 

Curriculum Vitae

Megan Welsh
Level 1

Areas of interest: TBA

 

Email:mwelsh@jjay.cuny.edu

 

 

      

 

Tasha Youstin

Level 1

Areas of interest: Theory Testing and Sexual Offending

Dissertation:

Advisor:

Email: tasha.youstin@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae

 

Cyann Zoller
Level 2

Areas of interest: Corrections, Theories of Punishment/Penology,  Religious Programming, Role of Religion in Corrections and the Lives of the Incarcerated

Dissertation: TBD

Advisor: Dr. Todd Clear

Email: cyann.zoller@gmail.com

 

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Matthew Zommer
Level 2

Areas of interest: Philosophy and Law; International Criminal Justice

Dissertation: Reciprocity and the Laws of War

Advisor: Dr. George Andreopoulos

Email: mzommer@gc.cuny.edu

 

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Sara Airall - Level 2
Philip Antoci - Level 3
Holli Aurbach - Level 1
Michelle Boileau - Level 3
Rebecca Bucht - Level 2
Christopher Chany - Level 3
Monica Cherry - Level 1
Kirsten Christiansen - Level 2
Timothy Clifford - Level 1
Daneille Coye - Level 1
Debbie DelValle - Level 1
Tonya Desa - Level 2
Peter Diaczuk - Level 1
Peter Evangelista - Level 2
LaNina Floyd - Level 2
Valentino Formosa - Level 1
Susan Fuller - Level 3
Albert Gamarra - Level 2
Monty Gerbush - Level 3
Marna Goodman - Level 1
Jane Grabias - Level 2
Jessenia Guzman - Level 1
Ronnie Harmon - Level 3
Felice Harris/Howard - Level 1
Christopher Hermann - Level 2
Zvi Herschman - Level 2
Maya Hess - Level 2
Kaori Ishii - Level 1
Samantha James - Level 2
Rachel Kessler - Level 2
Min-Chi Kim - Level 2
Richard Kim - Level 3
Susann Kimmelman - Level 2
Kinga Komorowski - Level 1
Christina Kress - Level 1
Sally Lam - Level 2
Faith Leibman - Level 3
Michael Liddie - Level 1
Kevin Low - Level 2
Brian Maule - Level 1
Kevin McCarthy - Level 1
Jennifer McCarthy - Level 2
Cristian Mercado - Level 2
Patrick Morris, Jr. - Level 2
Amy Naia - Level 1
Yvonne Neiman - Level 3
Yolanda Ortiz- Level 2
Michael Pass - Level 1
Lorraine Phillips - Level 1
Christina Pratt - Level 3
Oliver Pu-Fokes - Level 2
Sheetal Ranjan - Level 2
Linda Rourke -Level 3
Matthew Semel - Level 2
Francis Spangenberg - Level 1
Denise Starr - Level 2
Thomas Sunderland - Level 2
Jeanne Thelwell - Level 1
Brigitte Vallabhajosula - Level 3
Kelly Walsh-Corcoran - Level 3
Scott White - Level 2
Antonette Whyte - Level 1
Lisa Williams - Level 3
Nicole Wimberger - Level 2
Christina Wolf - Level 2
Sue-Lin Wong - Level 2
Amanda Wu - Level 2
Seokee Yoon - Level 1
 


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