Criminology

• Criminology students and Jeffrey R. Ralston Foundation Crime Analytics Fellows Kevin Fox (’12), Ryan Gale (’12), Catherine Kim (’12) and Kathleen Powell (’12) traveled to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday November 16, 2011 to attend the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology.  The Fellows presented research posters on the evening of Thursday November 17th.  The posters featured mapping images and statistical results from analyses conducted on dispatch data from the Lawrence Township Police Department. 

 

• Ryan Gale (’12) was selected by the Department of Criminology to receive the Outstanding Student Award for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. 

 

• Dr. Bruce Stout, associate professor of criminology, has received a grant from the Governor’s Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advisory Committee to conduct an in-depth assessment of disproportionate minority contact in New Jersey’s juvenile justice system.  The research project will specifically focus on the decision to commit to a juvenile correctional facility and will examine whether minority adolescents are more likely to receive such dispositions after controlling for other factors, such as offense severity and prior record.  The project will also include a survey of New Jersey efforts to address disproportionate minority contact and a review of “best practices” to address the problem. Dr. David Holleran, associate professor and chair of criminology, will serve as the analytic director for the project.
• Dr. Margaret Leigey, assistant professor of criminology, is preparing to conduct five-year follow up interviews with approximately 25 inmates who are serving sentences of life without parole in a mid-Atlantic State. All of the respondents are 55 years of age or older and have been incarcerated for at least 20 years. The research focuses on a variety of topics related to long-term incarceration and aging in prison. To support this research, she received a SOSA award. Dr. Leigey hopes to begin this research in July 2011.

The Department of Criminology and its Alumni Association co-sponsored the annual Gene Carte Dinner on April 12, 2011.  Pictured are Gene Carte Award recipient Mary T. Previte, honored for her years of service as Director of the Camden County Youth Center and as an assemblywoman, Class of ’78 alumnus Juan Jackson, retired after an exemplary career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and bagpipers from the New Jersey State Police.

Alpha Phi Sigma Class of 2011 (pictured from left: Jennifer Randolph, Amanda Emmert, Jennifer Chawla, Amanda Drummey, Ivonne Gonzalez, Megan Kearney, Robert Plimpton, and Christopher Skinner).

The Criminology honors society Alpha Phi Sigma celebrated its graduating seniors as well as new inductees on the evening of April 6, 2011 in the 1855 Room.  Dr. Margaret Leigey, assistant professor of criminology and faculty supervisor to Alpha Phi Sigma, was the mistress of ceremony.  The graduating seniors and inductees were joined by family, friends and Criminology faculty.

“Team Criminology” participated in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life on April 1, 2001.  The Team raised $1,490 for the American Cancer Society and the over 900 students who participated in the event  raised over $54,000.  Pictured are (from left to right) Megan Kearney, Samantha Leschek, Ryan Gale, Tiffany Etheredge, Amber Marsano, faculty advisor Bruce Stout, Michael Ryder, Jennifer Randolph and Robert Plimpton.

 

On March 23, 2011 members of the Criminology Student Association toured the Regional Operations and Intelligence Center (ROIC).  Pictured here are the students with Lt. Colonel Thomas R. Gilbert (right), Chief of Staff to the Division of State Police and an alumnus, and Major Thomas P. Souchek (left), Commander of the ROIC and Fusion Center.