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John Jay John Jay College PRESIDENT
T H E C I T Y U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K
E D UC A T I NG F O R JUST IC E
CONTENTS I am pleased to report to you that the transformation of John Jay College, which was launched four years ago with a historic
vote of our College Council, is on track and on schedule.
1 President’s Letter
This fall, we admitted our first all-baccalaureate freshman class in the College’s history, completing the phase-out of associate
degree programs. More than 2,000 freshman baccalaureate students were admitted, a record-breaking 24-percent increase
Asking the in freshman enrollment over 2009. This new class set another record: 85 percent of them came to our orientation for new
2 RIGHT QUESTIONS students. At the same time, almost 1,200 transfer students enrolled at the College, along with 480 new graduate students.
Undergraduates shine During this past year, we successfully launched the CUNY Justice Academy, our joint degree partnership program with the six
as first-rate researchers
CUNY community colleges. Through the Academy, John Jay has provided guaranteed access to its baccalaureate programs
for students who complete an associate degree in a criminal justice-related major at a CUNY community college. We have
5 BLANCHE ELEANOR established joint degree programs in criminal justice, forensic science and forensic financial analysis, and this fall 4,241 students
were enrolled in the Justice Academy. This accomplishment speaks to the powerful appeal of a John Jay education.
Finally, the most exciting development of all is the progress on our new building, rising
Senior Writer
Jennifer Nislow
majestically on 11th Avenue at 58th Street. The building is completely enclosed. Sheetrock
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25 ALUMNI WORTH NOTING is being installed to create classrooms, offices, labs and theaters. The workers have broken
through walls to connect Haaren Hall to the new building. The open space between the two
Peter Dodenhoff
Marie Rosen 26 ALUMNI CLASS NOTES buildings is taking shape. We are on schedule to move into the new building next year.
This new building will transform the College, providing a fitting venue for John Jay as
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PRISM (Program for Research Initiatives for Science Majors).
program
“One thing we hope to do is find a bridge platelets stick together to form clots. The
between faculty research and
undergraduates’ ability to conduct research.
mystery, according to Piszczatowski, is
where the CTGF comes from, since the cells
based on
We think it will help improve what that produce platelets have none of the
undergraduates do at that level, and increase protein. their desire
faculty engagement and contact with them,”
Undergraduates Shine as First-Rate Researchers said Lopes. “I think that it will spur students
on to achieve more. Our hope is that 25
“I’m trying to figure out how the to do
By Jennifer Nislow percent of undergraduates will engage in
cells that make the blood
research at some time during their career.” platelets signal to the other research
From the origins of an essential While teaching will always be a pillar of
cells, ‘I’m making blood
blood-clotting protein to the
John Jay’s mission, the College has shown
continued growth towards becoming a
While the program combines four revenue
streams to award stipends of up to $2,500 platelets, we need to get this and the
per academic year, perhaps more significant
Our hope research-focused institution, particularly protein into them soon,’” he
well-being of immigrant with regard to its undergraduate population, is that PRISM exposes students to
professional conferences, other researchers, said. “What I did was take the
submission
is that mothers, from the horror of according to Anne Lopes, Dean of
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Blanche Wiesen Cook, Distinguished Professor of History First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt sculpture in Riverside Park
BLANCHE ELEANOR
(AND HER PEERS BLANCHE)
By Peter Dodenhoff
(L-R) Lauren Weidner, His preliminary results show a connection “There is undergraduate research that goes “Go South for freedom.” Little could she
Professor Nathan Lents and
Richard Piszczatowski
between CTGF and another protein, MZF-1 on at the College, quite a bit of it,” said With these words, uttered in 1961, Blanche “I always say my life is an accident,” Cook
(Myeloid Zinc Finger 1), which is abundant in Lents. “But it’s in little pockets of Wiesen Cook, then a young student activist notes. In fact, it was an accident — literally have known at the
the cells that produce blood platelets. success….The idea was to bring all this and president of the student government at — that helped chart her scholarly course,
John Jay’s together, share successful strategies, Hunter College, was moved to board a bus after a mishap during a gymnastics meet time that the
“If our research and results go well, this successful models, but also be aware that
project will add to the information of where along with dozens of classmates and head derailed her plans to major in physical
new Office of blood clots come from and how they are
one size does not fit all,” he said. “There are for North Carolina to get involved in the civil education. “After that I majored in just about woman who urged
a lot of discipline-specific differences that rights movement. Little could she have every course I took. I fell in love with
Undergraduate getting this protein that is really necessary some of us don’t appreciate, so a central known at the time that the woman who urged anthropology, with history and government. her to “go South”
for clotting,” he said. “Maybe someone could office will help navigate that.”
Research (OUR)... target this as an area in people who have her to “go South” — the revered former First The accident changed my life into becoming
very poor blood-platelet production or very In her presentation, Kristyn Fiorini, 21, a Lady Eleanor Roosevelt — would become the a historian and an anthropologist. — the revered
will operate poor blood-platelet adhesion. That’s the senior and Forensic Science major, examined focus of a biographical examination that
ultimate goal.” the nightmarish world of international sex would consume nearly three decades of “I’ve always had people call me up and say
former First
alongside of trafficking and prostitution. The third most Cook’s life, in the process helping to define ‘Would you like to… have a column? …. have
PRISM
Piszczatowski’s mentor is Professor Nathan profitable crime in the world after drugs and and cap her career as a historian and earning a radio program?’ I’ve done all those things.
I did have a syndicated column, and I did
Lady Eleanor
H. Lents, a member of the Department of weapons, trafficking is a $7 billion a year her near-universal peer acclaim.
and the College’s Sciences faculty, who will head John Jay’s business that is a “contemporary form of It’s been a long road for a scholarly project
have a wonderful 20-year career on Pacifica
Radio. The bottom line is I am an activist and
Roosevelt —
new Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR). bondage,” she said. While victims can be of that Cook originally envisioned taking about a journalist and a historian — not necessarily
Ronald E. McNair The office will operate alongside of PRISM either gender, the majority are women. two years. Cook’s career itself has been a in that order, but they all connect.”
would become
and the College’s Ronald E. McNair
Post-Baccalaureate Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program to long, winding trail that has taken her from
They connect to form a scholar who has the focus
give students in a broader range of majors undergraduate study at Hunter College to
Achievement Johns Hopkins University to more than 40 distinguished herself in more ways than just
the opportunity to conduct research.
years as a faculty member at John Jay, the capitalized title she bears. In January of a biographical
Program According to Lents, OUR is the result of where today she is University Distinguished 2010, the American Historical Association’s
roughly a year’s worth of planning by Lopes Professor of History and Women’s Studies. annual conference included a “Roundtable in examination
to give students in and a team of faculty. He will sit on a Celebration of Blanche Wiesen Cook” —
common advisory board with Professor
that would
a broader range
Anthony Carpi, the acting Chairman of the “The bottom line is I am an activist and a journalist consume nearly
of majors Department of Sciences who heads PRISM,
the opportunity to
and Theresa Booker, the director of the and a historian — not necessarily in that order, three decades
McNair Program.
conduct research. Kristyn Fiorini, 21, a senior and Forensic Science major
but they all connect.” of Cook’s life.
continued on page 21
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Blanche Cook relaxing in First Lady Eleanor
East Hampton, NY, 1993 Roosevelt holding the
Universal Declaration of
Courtesy: Human Rights
Jonathan Silin/
New York Public Library
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She truly believes that what we are doing
here is important for the city, important
for students, important for the cause
of justice and important for creating a
new society.
never permit it. Since her earliest
days in the Police Academy-based
John Jay College of 1968, Cook has
been no less committed to her
classroom activities than she is to
her biographical subjects. “I’d like to
think that I introduced my students
to some world views that were new,”
“Labels don’t says Cook. “I was always dazzled by
bother me,”
she says.
how open they were and how thirsty
they were for information and
knowledge. For me, every class
was a learning experience, and
Where the
“I’m very
proud to be
the United Nations General Assembly and
chair of the U.N. Human Rights Commission,
almost never came to pass. “There was a
time when I decided that I couldn’t write this
book, I just couldn’t go on with it,” Cook
I always felt that I learned more
than I taught.”
Markowitz adds: “It’s really quite
extraordinary for someone who is as forceful
Truth Lies:
who I am, recalled. A pause for reflection and additional and opinionated as Blanche to insist upon The Phenomenon of False Confessions
research convinced her to continue, as was hearing from her students, and insist that if
and I work also the case when she spotted an apparent they disagree with her, they argue with her
By Marie Rosen
shift in Eleanor’s style and public efforts and state why they disagree. She truly
hard at vis-à-vis the civil rights movement after FDR’s believes that what we are doing here is
People confess to crimes they did not commit. Counterintuitive?
death. important for the city, important for students, Yes, but it happens and it happens in every country and throughout time.
trying to The biography may soon be wrapped up but
important for the cause of justice and
important for creating a new society.”
keep it up. Cook is quick to note, “I don’t think I’ll ever be
fully done with Eleanor Roosevelt. I’ll be done
Although there are no specific statistics Kassin categorizes those who falsely confess Kassin categorizes
Her many transitions — from military concerning the frequency of false con- into three categories: voluntary confessions,
those who falsely
You can label writing about her, but I’ll never be finished
with her as a guide, as a mentor — you
historian to peace historian to feminist and fessions, Distinguished Professor of internalized false confessions, and compliant
confess into
political biographer, from civil rights activist Psychology Saul Kassin believes they occur false confessions. With voluntary confes-
me anything know, ‘What would Eleanor do?’” Eleanor
Roosevelt is more relevant today than ever,
to peace activist to women’s rights activist with some regularity and more often than you sions, people may confess to protect three categories:
and icon, from radio and TV host to might think. He became interested in the someone else, because they are delusional,
you like, as Cook insists. “We’ve just been through 10 newspaper and magazine columnist — are all phenomenon more than 25 years ago while or to attract attention in cases of high profile voluntary
years of an administration that completely of a piece with Cook. She fears neither studying juries and jury decision making. In crimes — like the 200 people who confessed confessions,
long as you spit on the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights,” one of Roosevelt’s crowning
spreading herself too thin nor being every case he looked at, the jury always to the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s baby
internalized false
pigeonholed.. “Labels don’t bother me,” she convicted when there was a confession. or like John Mark Karr who confessed to
pronounce achievements during her service with the
U.N.
says. “I’m very proud to be who I am, and I It made him aware of just how “powerful” killing JonBenet Ramsey. Kassin notes that confessions, and
work hard at trying to keep it up. You can a confession was and made him wonder, police do a good job at weeding out these compliant false
and spell my Cook is no mere ivory tower scholar;
label me anything you like, as long as you “whether confessions were as perfect, false confessors as serious suspects and
confessions.
pronounce and spell my name right.” reliable and infallible as everybody thought.” that these cases don’t result in wrongful
name right.” her activism and passion would
Peter Dodenhoff is editor of @John Jay.
convictions.
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“The confessor knows he is innocent, breaks down and gives a
confession anyway because he is under stress, he‘s been in police
custody for a long time, he may feel threatened, he may have had
Can Objects Speak?
promises made or implied to him if he confesses.” COLLEGE HOPES SO,
What concerns him are the other two types of “They always knew they didn’t do it. Every AS HI-TECH TEACHING TAKES HOLD
false confessors where interrogation plays a one of those boys said he thought he was By Jennifer Nislow
big role. Internalized false confessions can going to go home after confessing.” Kassin
occur when the suspect is a juvenile, mentally thinks, “psychologically these are the
handicapped, grieving the death of a loved simplest to understand. Everybody has a
one, or because he hasn’t slept in days. breaking point.”
When police lie to such suspects about
possessing evidence, a practice that is Kassin also points out there are many
legally permissible, the vulnerable suspect misconceptions when it comes to detecting
gets confused, has the impression that when someone is lying. In fact, he says, a
people do things they don’t remember and study to be published in Communication
tries to form a memory about the crime even Research shows that people who watch the
though he did not commit it. show “Lie to Me” become worse and more
biased in detecting lies than people who don’t
But, the largest category of false confessions watch the show. He also believes there is no
that Kassin says is of most concern to the scientific evidence for tactics that look at
criminal justice system is the one he calls fidgeting or eye contact. “It’s common in
compliant false confessions. “The confessor testimony from police who say, ‘I knew he
knows he is innocent, breaks down and gives was our guy because when I asked him about
a confession anyway because he is under the crime he broke eye contact. He couldn’t
stress, he‘s been in police custody for a long look me in the eye.’ In fact in 60 countries, it
Internalized time, he may feel threatened, he may have is the one cue that everybody pays attention
had promises made or implied to him if he to.” Yet in a meta-analysis of dozens of
false confesses. In other words, given the situation studies involving thousands of subjects,
he is in, the suspect decides it is in his best Kassin says the correlation between eye
confessions interest to confess.” Kassin describes the contact or looking away and deception is
Professor Gregory H. Umbach
can occur situation as similar to when people change zero. “Interrogators who use these cues are If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the actual object captured in that image is
their public behavior, but privately do not not going to be more accurate, they are only
change their mind. Kassin says the Central going to be more confident.” easily worth at least a few pages of text. That’s the belief held by a group of John Jay
when the Park Jogger Case was just such a situation.
faculty deeply engaged in an initiative to create and perfect downloadable audio-tours
suspect is a
of museum collections. These podcasts, they say, add a three-dimensional component
juvenile, to what students are learning in the classroom.
mentally But, podcasts are only one of the ways that “The idea is that if you sit through a lecture, By bringing
John Jay has begun using technology to you’ve seen about 10 percent of content —
handicapped, reach a generation of students who are far just pure auditory,” he said. “If you add visual
together
more comfortable using MP3 players and aids, it bumps up to 20 or 30 percent. And if audio, visual and
grieving the iPhones for schoolwork. By bringing together you put hands-on, your recall is about 40 interactive
audio, visual and interactive learning — tools percent of the content. Any time you can
death of that are usually separated in traditional combine all of these things, you’re going to learning...
teaching — faculty can provide their classes boost retention and comprehension faculty can provide
a loved one, with a uniquely holistic learning experience. considerably,” said Pangburn. “That’s
something rich media content offers because
their classes with
or because It is something called “rich media content,” it can have narration, it can have video, it can a uniquely holistic
said William Pangburn, director of John Jay’s have hands-on activity. That’s something the
he hasn’t slept Instructional Technology and Support digital world does very well.”
learning
Services (ITSS). experience.
in days. (L-R) Brian Wallace, Professor Saul Kassin and Jennifer Perillo
continued on page 15
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John Jay
received
approximately
$192,400
in funding from
the National
Endowment for Professor Gregory H. Umbach, a member of the College’s History Ellen Burstyn, Peter Neufeld, Leymah Gbowee, Kara Hartzler, Barry Scheck, Rossana Rosado & President Travis
for a project
first podcast in 2006 for his History of World Civilizations course.
Students had to download Umbach’s audio tour, 2010 John Jay
Justice Awards
“Afro-European Encounter in Africa,” to their iPod or MP3
called player and find the objects he describes in the African Art
“Making Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Technology gives us a real solution” to
recognize extraordinary dedication to the cause of justice
Objects the problem of getting students to connect
with the images and texts used in traditional
Before an enthusiastic audience of the John Jay
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2010
John Jay
Justice
Awards
Clockwise from top (L-R)
Mia Farrow, Barry Scheck
and Peter Neufeld;
Rosana Rosado;
Joshua Bell;
President Jeremy Travis
and Kara Hartzler
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Shockingly, “In almost every single false confession case (L-R) Jennifer Perillo,
Professor Saul Kassin
and Brian Wallace
there are times I’ve seen, the breaking point for the innocent
when a person was the use of false evidence.
confession We have your hair, your blood, your
even trumps fingerprints.”
irrefutable
Innocent suspects feel trapped.
scientific
were so busy interrogating.” Based on new a high rate. A believer in the scientific method,
physical research data he has been collecting, Kassin Kassin notes, “I could not have intuited that.”
thinks that judges and juries will be better Psychologists who study false confessions
evidence. adjudicators of a confession when they see share the same goals, he says, as anyone
the interrogation tapes, not just the final else in the criminal justice system. “We are
confession, as opposed to relying on not looking to prohibit interrogation — to
second-hand accounts. “It gets at the truth prevent police from getting the confessions
and it gets it in a way that will sometimes from criminals. The goal is to get it right.”
favor the defense, but will more often favor
Jennifer Perillo
The Forensic
the state. Either way it is more likely to serve Shockingly, there are times when a confession
justice.” even trumps irrefutable scientific physical
evidence. Kassin notes that there are 19 has been
One aspect of interrogation that Kassin has cases on record -— and perhaps many more
criticized for years is lying about evidence, a
legally allowed practice in the U.S. “In almost
every single false confession case I’ve seen,
— where there is a confession followed by
DNA that contradicts that confession. One
South Carolina case, where he was an expert
Psychology Lab experimenting
with the bluff
Kassin notes
that there are
the breaking point for the innocent person
was the use of false evidence. ‘ We have your
hair, your blood, your fingerprints.’ Innocent
witness, was featured on “Dateline” last July.
Billy Wayne Cope was accused of murdering
his 12-year-old daughter, Amanda. He had
at John Jay tactic that is
suspects feel trapped.” For Kassin, lying been isolated for three days and interrogated. used in
19 cases on about evidence should be limited or banned Transcripts of the interrogation show that he In the forensic psychology lab, Distinguished
outright. “I don’t have a problem with denied killing his daughter 650 times. He was interrogations
record — confrontation using real evidence. But, once told he failed a lie detector test that he in fact Professor of Psychology Saul Kassin and his
you confront a suspect with false evidence, had asked for. Ultimately, he confessed to to see if
and perhaps you’re treating the innocent just like the guilty.
Once you do that, even the innocent are going
committing the murder. The lab results, which
came back several weeks later, showed that
students in the doctoral program in forensic the bluff
many more — to get really anxious and start looking guilty.
It’s a cycle that goes nowhere good.”
the girl was also sexually assaulted and the
semen and saliva did not match Cope. psychology are studying a number of aspects of would prompt
where there is Instead of lying, police often use bluffing. They
Sometime after that, the DNA was run through
CODIS, a computer software program that the interrogation process, including why innocent false
don’t say, “we have your DNA.” Instead they
a confession operates local, state and national databases
confessions.
say, “we picked up DNA and sent it to the
lab.” Kassin used to think this was a good
of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, people falsely confess, how videotaping police
followed by approach. But now he notes that although
unsolved crime scene evidence and missing
bluffing can prompt the guilty to confess in
persons. A match was made to a known sex interrogations affects the criminal justice process,
DNA that order to cut a better deal, it can backfire
offender, James Sanders, who was in the
area. Yet Cope was prosecuted and convicted
contradicts when it comes to someone who is innocent. In anyway, as a co-conspirator with Sanders, and how signs of “malintent” can be detected.
this instance, innocent people often believe even though Sanders had no idea who Cope
that the evidence will exonerate them, which
that paradoxically makes it easier for them to
was. That was six years ago. Cope remains
imprisoned.
• Kassin recently received a grant to work with the Denver Police
confess. Kassin’s laboratory studies, soon to Department where he will be conducting a full random assignment
confession. be published, show that using the bluff Marie Rosen is a senior editor at John Jay College
field study using actual suspects, some who will know that they are
of Criminal Justice.
technique makes innocent people confess at
being taped and some who will not, to see if it affects them.
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No one falsely confessed without the bluff, but when
we added the bluff about secret videotaping, half of
the innocent participants then ended up confessing.
Fyfe Fellowship &
• Jennifer Perillo, one of Kassin’s doctoral
students, has been experimenting with the
bluff tactic that is used in interrogations to
session was terminated without credit.
According to Perillo, “we found that bluffing
significantly increased the rate of false
Malone Scholarship
see if the bluff would prompt false confession. When asked why they signed a Enduring Legacies for Future John Jay Students
confessions. Research, consisting of a false statement, they told us that they By Jennifer Nislow
number of experiments, was constructed expected that a check of the keystrokes
where participants thought they were taking a would exonerate them.” In another
reaction time test. They are warned that the experiment, a cheating paradigm was used
Alt key on the keyboard has a glitch, which where the stakes were even higher.
One of the profound satisfactions of being an “You have to
educator is the ability to help students
will result in a computer crash and the loss of Participants were told that there was a hidden
all data. The computer is rigged to go off camera, which would show who was cheating
achieve their professional and academic understand the
goals. Two new endowed scholarships at
repeatedly. Participants are informed that and who was not, but it would take a while
their keystrokes have been recorded, but it before a technician arrived to retrieve the
John Jay — and the professors behind them general structure
— will do just that.
will be quite some time before a technician evidence. “There was a strong effect using
arrives who can decipher who made the the bluff on the innocent participants,” says For those who work in law enforcement,
of what you’re
problem keystroke. The experimenter tells the Perillo. “No one falsely confessed without the practice generally comes before theory. That
participants that they could leave if they sign bluff, but when we added the bluff about is, many who continue their education past
dealing with before
a statement admitting to hitting the Alt key, secret videotaping, half of the innocent their undergraduate levels do so when they
acknowledging data was lost and that the participants then ended up confessing.” are already on the job.
you can develop
“When I was in that position, I realized that theory about it.
Brian In this study, hidden eye tracking software is used one understands theory so much better after
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At the 2009 meeting of the
American Society of Criminology,
McCoy and others presented what is
called a “festschrift” in the academic
world. A festschrift is a book that
contains original contributions by an
honored scholar’s close colleagues,
often including his or her former
doctoral students. In this case, the
contributions were works influenced,
inspired or prompted by Fyfe’s
research. Called Holding Police
Accountable, it was recently Vice Presidents James and Rubie Malone
Denise Mieses, center, with McNair students
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The research conference also featured the Honors Program
Senior Thesis Presentations, six students whose work ranged
Can Objects Speak?
COLLEGE HOPES SO, AS HI-TECH TEACHING TAKES HOLD
from the characteristics of bank robbers to the use of the continued from page 12
faculty director of the revamped Honors Unlike the type of audio-tour that visitors to
The revamped “I wanted to see how much more successful
museums are familiar with, these podcasts
William Pangburn
magazine.
people are if they do it ‘movie style’ as Program that will promote strongly the idea of
outstanding students as servants of a larger are specifically aimed at college students in In addition to podcasting, the
opposed to the ‘real style,’ used by the
Honors their sophomore and junior years. The topics
majority of bank robbers. It’s conclusive that community, both within John Jay and beyond
John Jay. The notion, he explained, is to are keyed to essential texts or themes taught
College has also been utilizing We think that
bank robbers with guns are more successful, Apple’s iTunes U, a program
Program... “cultivate, encourage and nourish” the during class and include references to texts,
but most people still don’t use them. They
don’t really use all those other gadgets and College’s most talented students. They, in images and ideas. They also contain what designed to allow institutions to by getting
turn, could share their abilities and Licklider refers to as “embedded learning
will promote most of the time they are not successful. distribute their academic content
I learned that at the NYPD.” attainments with the larger student body. activities” that ask students to sketch the students to
object, write a paragraph describing the online.
strongly Among Maiello’s key findings were that over
70 percent of bank robberies are non-violent;
“Although some of our ideas remain in
process, we are also very interested in seeing
atmosphere of a particular room, or imagine
the life of the person who owned such an
ITunes U has both a “private side” and a look slowly at
what we can do to encourage John Jay “public side,” explained Pangburn. The private
the average bank robber is a 30-year-old object.
the idea of male; and he is most likely to enter the bank students to take an active role in the side allows content providers to restrict objects we will
New York community beyond John Jay,” said “We’re professors and our tendency is to say access to their materials; the public side is
on a Friday between 10 AM and 3 PM.
outstanding Matteson. everything we know, load it all on to the just that — a way for the general public to
have access through the iTunes Store to an
increase their
In her research, Maiello said that she students,” said Licklider. “But we have to
Having personally instructed five of the institution’s lectures, courses and other
students
considered Routine Activity Theory, a
criminological hypothesis that posits crime is Honors Program students presenting their
resist that and not lecture, rather ask directed
questions, get students to do more of the information that it has made available.
attention span
a mundane, everyday occurrence that work, Matteson said he considers the group work than us.”
as servants of a depends on the opportunities available to protégés and among the students with whom Professors can create a course for posting on and their
he has worked that he is most proud. While the creation of the podcasts is being the iTunes U site by using Blackboard
the would-be offender.
larger
funded through John Jay’s grant, the audio software’s Building Blocks modules or by
using a template provided by iTunes U.
willingness to
“Looking at some of the details from the “I was deeply impressed by the tours will be made available to all CUNY
Routine Activities perspective, it would be students. Students do not need to have an iPod, but
logical for a bank robber to rob a bank on sophistication of their research, they do need to have the free iTunes software read things
community, Friday,” she said. “That’s when they happen to the poise with which they installed on their computer.
get the most money, usually because banks
conducted themselves in front
slowly, as well.”
both within end up transferring money on Fridays and “For a student, they can download it, pop it on their
many people cash checks from their jobs. of a large group and I think
John Jay Also bank robbers may need more money for those students would serve well device, and they can go on the subway,” said Pangburn.
the weekend,” Maiello quipped, “so Friday is a
very prime day.” as ambassadors for the “If they live out in Queens, they have a 45-minute trip.
and beyond College.” They can go through the whole lecture.
Professor John Matteson, a member of the
John Jay. English department faculty, has been named Jennifer Nislow is a senior writer at John Jay College It’s really fantastic.”
of Criminal Justice.
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John Jay now has its own very rich public site
Alumni Worth Noting
on iTunes U with over 100 lectures and
seminars on a variety of criminal justice Salvatore Cassano (BS ’76) Cassano is
issues. Commissioner of the New York City
Fire Department (FDNY)
thankful for his
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Natalie S. Alcee, BS ’97, has been on active duty in the U.S. Army Terryann K. Ferguson, BA ’08, is a police officer in the Charleston Police Jason Quinones, BS ‘10, who majored in forensic science with a Janet Arons Schultze, BS ’78, has a new position as an employment
stationed at Ft. Riley, KS with 101st Brigade Support Battalion since June Department in South Carolina. PPO of the year for 2009, she notes that concentration in toxicology, was recently accepted into the PhD program at specialist for Mental Health Systems, Inc. in San Diego, CA.
2009. She is on a five-year leave from Greenberg Traurig, LLP where she she is “enjoying the life of criminal justice. John Jay was my best choice SUNY Stony Brook.
works as a paralegal/administrative assistant. when it came to higher education.” Danielle Scimeca, BS ‘10, who majored in forensic science with a
Irma Ramos, BA ’03, became the confidential secretary to the supervising concentration in toxicology, was recently accepted into the MD/PhD
Joseph A. Alejandro, BS ‘98, is the treasurer of the Patrolmen’s Christine Fonseca, BS ’06, is a community development specialist for the judge of the Bronx County Family Court within one year of employment with program at the University of Miami.
Benevolent Association. Alcoholism Council of New York. the New York State Unified Court System. Noting that her John Jay
education was a “key factor” in her selection, she says, “I am very proud to Ronald Spadafora, BS ’86, was recently promoted to assistant chief of
Jamilah N. Alexander, MPA ’09, was promoted to deputy director of the Deanna Gallavan, BA ’07, is currently pursuing a PhD in counseling be an employee of our court system and an alumna of the College.” the New York City Fire Department.
Women’s Prison Association. psychology at the University of Oklahoma and conducting research on
burnout and compassion fatigue among correctional psychologists and Katherine Reynoso, BS ‘10, who majored in forensic science with a Sukeena Stephens, MPA ’03, was promoted to assistant to the
William Anthony Allen, MPA ’06, is a PhD candidate in urban systems at counselors. concentration in molecular biology, was recently accepted into the PhD special-agent-in-charge with the Federal Air Marshal Service. She also
Rutgers University. In addition to his John Jay MPA, he holds a MS in urban program at the CUNY Graduate Center. serves as manager of the interagency Man Portable Air Defense System
affairs from Hunter College. He recently served as President/CEO of Juan C. Gonzalez, BA ’02, is a 2006 graduate of the University of (MANPADS) Working Group. She is currently pursing a doctorate degree in
Communities in Schools of New Jersey. An adjunct professor in public Connecticut School of Law and former law clerk at the New York State Heather C. Roberts, MA ’05, worked for more than three years as a public policy and administration with a concentration in homeland security.
administration at John Jay College and in criminal justice at Monroe College, Court of Appeals in Albany, NY. He is currently practicing appellate law at substance abuse therapist for teens coming back from incarceration.
he also serves as the Democratic District Leader of the 70th Assembly Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin & Spratt, LLP in New York City. She currently serves as a sworn officer for the United States Capitol Police. Benjamin B. Tucker, BS ’77, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June
District in Harlem. 22, 2010 to become the Deputy Director of State, Local and Tribal Affairs
George F. Kurtyka, MA ’90, recently retired from the Derby, CT Police Dianne K Rosete, BA ’09, recently started working as a fraud investigator, for the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Manivanh Bounthisanh, BA ’06, is a correction officer at the Ross Department with over 30 years of service, the last 20 in the Detective her “dream job,” for the Human Resources Administration/Investigation,
Correctional Institution in Ohio. Division. He was also the homeland security coordinator for the City of Revenue and Enforcement Administration. Beatrice Wilkinson Welters, MA ’78, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate
Derby, CT. to become the U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. She was sworn in
Rodney C. Boyce, BS 98, is a police officer with the New York City Police on April 27, 2010.
Department. In June 2010, he completed 15 years of service. Giovanni K. LaDuke, BA ’04, is a LMSW CASAC intake coordinator at the
Realization Center.
Bridget E. (Rivera) Bravo, BA ’00, received a MPA from NOVA
Southeastern University. Donald J. LaSala, MA ’09, retired as a police officer in 2009. Since then Notice of Special Meeting of the
he has taught as an adjunct at several colleges in northwest New Jersey
Alet A. Brown, BA ’09, who is attending St. John’s University School of and northeast Pennsylvania. Recently, he obtained a full-time position as John Jay College Alumni Association on December 1, 2010.
Law, is the 2010 recipient of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section the chair of the School of Criminal Justice at ITT-Tech in Dunmore, PA. He is
Minority Fellowship from the New York Bar Association. currently writing an introduction to forensic psychology textbook geared
Chase M. Buckman, MPA ’09, was hired as a staff analyst for the NYC towards undergraduates.
Department of Transportation - Sidewalk Management Unit. The Alumni Board of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Alumni Association
Julie Layschok, BS ‘05, who majored in forensic science, recently
Lymari Casta, MA ’00, recently started a law practice in New York City, received a PhD in sciences from Oregon State University. will convene a special meeting on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 6:00 PM,
which specializes in immigration law, particularly deportation matters in all
50 states and Puerto Rico.
Delana K Mendes, BS ’08, who is living in Atlanta, GA was recently to vote on ratification of the Constitution and Bylaws of the Alumni Association.
promoted from target protection specialist to an assets protection leader.
Larry Cunningham, BS ’97, vice president of the John Jay Alumni She is responsible for theft and fraud investigation as well as the All alumni who received graduate or undergraduate degrees from John Jay College on or before
Association, was appointed assistant dean for students at St. John’s improvement of operational shortage. “My criminal justice background at
September 1, 2010 are invited to attend and vote at this meeting.
University School of Law. John Jay is admired and I am always proud to speak of it,” she says.
William A. Curtis, BS ’09, is employed with the U.S. Virgin Islands Theodore Miraldi, BA ’08, is in the MPA program at John Jay and has The meeting will be held in at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Avenue, 6th floor,
Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General. He was promoted been published nearly 50 times in the Opinion Section of the New York Post New York, NY, 10019.
from special agent to director of the Special Investigations Division. on socio-political issues facing the city, state and federal government.
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