The School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers is committed to developing and applying criminological theories, professional knowledge and analytical and problem-solving techniques to the reduction of crime and its impact. Our work prevents crime and disorder, and promotes safety, security, justice, and their attendant values. Our mission, within the University, is to provide students with an inter-disciplinary education that involves the marriage of up-to-date criminological thinking with specific applications to reduce crime and improve justice. Our mission locally, nationally and globally is to ensure that our work inside the University is effective in improving policy and practice in crime reduction and criminal justice.
Faculty (see below for more information, or click on name for CV)
Name |
Phone Number |
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973-353-3295 |
avakame@newark.rutgers.edu |
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973-353-1304 |
jcaplan@andromeda.rutgers.edu |
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973-353-1488 |
kochin@newark.rutgers.edu |
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973-353-3245 |
johnnac@newark.rutgers.edu |
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973-353-1154 |
rclarke@newark.rutgers.edu |
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973-353-5237 |
felson@newark.rutgers.edu |
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973-353-3301 |
finckena@newark.rutgers.edu |
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973-353-3311 |
graycar@rutgers.edu |
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973-353-5923 |
glkell@aol.com |
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973-353-3310 |
kennedy@newark.rutgers.edu |
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973-353-1303 |
djmartin@rutgers.edu |
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973-353-5030 |
maxfield@newark.rutgers.edu |
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973-353-3287 |
samuelsn@newark.rutgers.edu |
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973-353-5931 |
mercers@newark.rutgers.edu |
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973-353-1929 |
veysey@newark.rutgers.edu |
* several positions are currently being filled
Faculty Emeritus
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Freda Adler
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Andrew Von Hirsch
Joel Caplan, PhD University of Pennsylvania
In 2008 Dr Caplan joined the faculty as Assistant Professor. His dissertation was on victim input into parole decisions. He has been a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Cartographic Modeling Lab (CML) where he has
applied spatial analysis to projects relating to gun violence, emergency medical services, disaster management, mental illness, prisoner reentry, and crime control. His research focuses on social controls, particularly public safety and corrections. He studies the intersection of criminal justice policies and practices and the affects on various stakeholders such as victims, offenders, practitioners, and the public-at-large.
Ko-lin Chin, PhD University of Pennsylvania
Professor Ko-lin Chin has received funding from the National Science Foundation as well as two Fulbright Scholarships for his work on organized crime and trans
national criminal activity. His most recent book is Golden Triangle: From Opium and Heroin to Methamphetamine (Cornell University Press 2008). Currently he is conducting a study on sex trafficking in Asia and the U.S.
Johnna Christian, PhD University at Albany
Dr. Christian’s broad research interests are corrections, race and gender, and urban studies. Her work examines incarceration’s impact on families and neighborhoods. Her study of prisoners’ families will help better understand the justice system’s impact on diverse racial and ethnic groups, and more specifically, communities that experience high rates of incarceration.
Ronald V Clarke, PhD University of London
Dr Clarke led the team that originated situational crime prevention, and is now considered to be the world’s leading authority on that approach. He also jointly developed the rational choice perspective on crime with Derek Cornish.
Dr Clarke is the founding editor of Crime Prevention Studies and is author or joint author of well over 200 books, monographs and papers, including Become a Problem Solving Crime Analyst (U.S. Dept of Justice, 2005) and Outsmarting the Terrorists (Praeger, 2006).
Marcus Felson, PhD University of Michigan
Professor Felson originated the routine activity approach to crime rate analysis. He is an expert in how to think about crime in very tangible terms, and how to reduce it using such thinking. His books include Crime and Nature, as well as Crime and Everyday Life, now in its third edition. He has also written about the role of business in crime and crime reduction. His work is increasingly applied to understand juvenile street gangs, co-offending, organized crime, and
outdoor drug sales.
James O. Finckenauer, PhD New York University
Dr Finckenauer’s research and teaching interests include interna-tional and comparative criminal justice, transnational crime, organized crime, crime policy, and evaluation research. He is the author or editor of nine books, as well
as hundreds of articles, chapters and reports. His most recent book is Mafia and Organized Crime: A Beginner’s Guide (2007). Professor Finckenauer has lectured around the world, and been a visiting scholar in Australia, Germany, Japan and Russia.
Adam Graycar, PhD University of New South Wales
Professor Graycar has long worked at the interface of knowledge development, knowledge transmission and public policy. Before coming to Rutgers as Dean in 2007 he held senior positions in policy development in government in Australia. He was, for 9 years the Director of the Australian Institute of Criminology, a Federal Government agency whose task is to provide quality information and conduct
policy oriented research, so as to inform government decisions on crime and justice, locally, nationally and internationally. His latest book (with Peter Grabosky) the Cambridge Handbook of Australian Criminology was published
by Cambridge University Press, 2002.
George L. Kelling, PhD University of Wisconsin
Professor Kelling is Faculty Chair of the Police Institute at Rutgers University. In 1972, Kelling began work at the Police Foundation and conducted several large-scale experiments, most notably the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment and the Newark Foot Patrol Experiment. The latter was the source of his contribution to his most familiar publication in the Atlantic, “Broken Windows,” with James Q. Wilson. During the late 1980s, Kelling developed the order maintenance policies in the New York City subway that ultimately led to radical crime reductions. His most recent major publication is Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities (with Catherine M. Coles).
Leslie W. Kennedy, PhD University of Toronto
Dr Kennedy has published extensively in the areas of fear of crime, victimology, and violence. His current research in public security builds upon his previous work in event analysis and understanding the social contexts in which dangers in society are identified and deterred. He is the co-author, with Van Brunschot, of Risk Balance and Security (2008, Sage), a book that examines how risk is assessed by agencies faced with major hazards including crime, terrorism, environmental disaster and disease. He is the co-author with Vince Sacco of The Criminal Event,
appearing in its 4th edition.
Damian J. Martinez, PhD University of Chicago
Dr Martinez is an assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice with a joint appointment in the Department of Social Work at Rutgers-Newark. His current
research and scholarship focus broadly on former prisoner reentry, offender rehabilitation, and Hispanics/Latinos in the criminal justice system. He has published on these topics in the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, ColumbiaHuman Rights Law Review, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
Michael G. Maxfield, PhD Northwestern University
Michael G. Maxfield has written extensively on topics such as victimization, policing, homicide, community corrections, and long-term consequences of child abuse and neglect. His research articles have appeared in what are widely regarded as the top three journals in criminology. He is the coauthor (with Earl Babbie) of the textbook, Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology, now
in its fifth edition, and coeditor (with Mike Hough) of Surveying Crime in the 21st Century, in the Crime Prevention Studies series. Recent projects collaborate with police departments and other justice agencies in the areas of repeat domestic violence, performance measurement systems, and auto theft.
Mercer L. Sullivan, PhD Columbia University
Professor Sullivan’s book Getting Paid: Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City (Cornell University Press, 1989) is widely cited as a seminal study of ecological influences on youth development. He is one of the first researchers to have studied the male role in teenage pregnancy and parenting. His other research has examined the roles of community development corporations in promoting public safety, multiple-victim school shootings, patterns of ordinary school violence, the relation of public perceptions of youth gang activity to actual patterns of youth violence,
and the social processes of reentry from juvenile incarceration. He teaches courses on qualitative research methods, violent crime, juvenile justice, developmental and life course criminology, and general criminology.
Bonita Veysey, PhD University at Albany
Dr Veysey’s research has focused on behavioral health and justice issues, including mental health and substance abuse treatment in jails and prisons; diversion and treatment services for youth and adults with behavioral health
problems; and conditions of confinement and the effects of trauma. She has extensive experience in program evaluation, and frequently consults with local communities. She is now working with Dr Christian and Dr Martinez on an edited volume entitled Identity Transformation and Offender Change that is expected to be published in early 2009.
Norman Samuels, PhD Duke University
Dr. Samuels recently returned to the faculty after serving for three decades in senior University administrative roles. His research interests are in the fields of terrorism and counter-terrorism, security and intelligence studies, and the intersection of interna-tional terrorism and crime, and in particular, the interface among these topics and the American system of government. He teaches courses and advises graduate students in these areas. He is University Professor and Provost Emeritus.
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