President Jeremy Travis, Professor Delores Jones-Brown and Professor David Kennedy have each provided expert testimony before the Task Force on 21st Century Policing – established by President Barack...

Staci Strobl, Associate Professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, was invited to speak at a Congressional briefing hosted by Human Rights First in...

February 1 3 , 2015: Prisoner reentry initiatives were in the news recently in two major media outlets. Al Jazeera published a substantive article on John Jay’s “prison to college” program that is...

John Jay College was recently honored with a WESTY Award by The Westside Sp irit – a community newspaper that is part of Straus News. The awards ceremony was held on campus at the Anya and Andrew...

February 10, 2015, New York, NY– The American Institute of Architecture ( AIA ) National Honor Awards were announced recently and John Jay College’s new building was one of just 8 buildings honored...

February 9, 2015, New York, NY– Noted criminologist Henry N. Pontell has been appointed a Presidential Scholar and Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal...

Monica Varsanyi, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science, discussed recent developments in U.S. immigration policy and law on Al Jazeera America. During the live interview with...

Tracie L. Keesee, PhD, has been appointed as the project director for the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, a U.S. Department of Justice project led by John Jay College of...

New York, NY – Maria Hinojosa, one of the country’s foremost broadcast journalists and media entrepreneurs, will be honored as the 2015 “Justice Trailblazer” at a dinner on February 9, 2015, at the...

Childhood sexual abuse does not pose a uniquely heightened risk for future arrests for sex crimes, according to “A Prospective Examination of Whether Childhood Sexual Abuse Predicts Subsequent Sexual...