Laboy-Almodovar, Sarah

Sarah Laboy-Almodovar is the Academic Advisor and the Program Administrator for the Program in Criminal Justice. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Rutgers University. Her passion has always been books: her favorite genre of literature was Shakespeare. As an undergraduate at Rutgers, Sarah was part of Latin Images: she lived in special interest housing on College Avenue campus dedicated to Latino culture and community. It was here that she developed a deeper understanding of her heritage, her culture, and its language. The special interest floor of the dorm she lived in at the time helped to foster a sense of community between hallmates, and in the process helped Sarah to learn more about herself—she still remains friends with many of the people from her floor. Sarah began working at Rutgers as an undergraduate where she started a position in the Graduate Admissions Office. She was eventually hired as the secretarial assistant in the Minority Advancement Program which was a part of the Graduate School Dean’s Office. After working there for 6 years, she began working as the secretarial assistant to the Director of the Center for Latino Arts and Culture. Sarah started at the Center when it was founded and first opened its doors. She helped establish the Center from the ground up, and launched the opening with a grand exhibit and mural project constructed by a Latino artist. One of the highlights was working on hosting artwork from a Chilean Exhibition part of a global tour. Sarah was continuously working with artists, writers, playwrights, authors, and many members of the Latino cultural arts community. For her dedication to the Center, she received the Award for Excellence. In 1998 Sarah took a position as an administrative assistant and office manager for the Livingston College Dean’s Office. She worked there for 10 years, and she oversaw all of the administrative duties of Livingston College. During her time there, she also began working as the Program Administrator to the Program in Criminal Justice (then called the Administration of Justice) in 1999 when it moved from the School of Social Work to become part of Livingston College. When the Program in Criminal Justice was integrated into the School of Arts and Sciences, Sarah began working there full time as both the Program Administrator and the Academic Advisor. She enjoys working with such stellar Program faculty who are involved in world-renowned and national projects and research, as well as being able to advise and guide students in the program to succeed in their major and beyond Rutgers. One of the highlights for Sarah is being able to hear success stories from her students after they have graduated from Rutgers and have begun their careers.

Piehl, Anne M.

Biography Dr. Anne Morrison Piehl is an Affiliated Professor in the Program in Criminal Justice, as well as a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University; furthermore, she is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1994, and her A.B. degree in Economics from Harvard University in 1986. She conducts research on the economics of crime and criminal justice. Piehl’s current work analyzes the causes and consequences of the prison population boom, determinants of criminal sentencing outcomes, and the connections between immigration and crime, both historically and currently.  She currently serves on the Committee on Law and Justice of the National research Council, as well as on an NRC committee studying the causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration. Previous she testified before the United States Sentencing Commission and the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Immigration and served on the New Jersey Commission on Government Efficiency and Reform (GEAR) Corrections/Sentencing Task Force.  Before joining Rutgers in 2005, Piehl was on the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her research on the economics of crime and criminal justice been published in academic journals in the fields of economics, sociology, criminology, public policy, and law, as well as in a book, Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration, co-authored with Bert Useem (Cambridge University Press). Research: Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors (with Shawn Bushway and Emily Owens). There is a debate about whether advisory non-binding sentencing guidelines affect the sentences outcomes of individuals convicted in jurisdictions with this sentencing framework. Identifying the impact of sentencing guidelines is a difficult empirical problem because court actors may have preferences for sentencing severity that are correlated with the preferences that are outlined in the guidelines. But, in Maryland, ten percent of the recommended sentences computed in the guideline worksheets contain calculation errors. We use this unique source of quasi-experimental variation to quantify the extent to which sentencing guidelines influence policy outcomes.  Among drug offenses, we find that the direct impact of the guidelines is roughly ½ the size of the overall correlation between recommendations and outcomes.  For violent offenses, we find the same ½ discount for sentence recommendations that are higher than they should have been, but more responsiveness to recommendations that are too low.  We find no evidence that the guidelines themselves directly affect discretion for property offenders, perhaps because judges generally have substantial experience with property cases and therefore do not rely on the errant information.  Sentences are more sensitive to both accurate and inaccurate recommendations for crimes that occur less frequently and have more complicated sentencing.  This suggests that when the court has more experience, the recommendations have less influence.  More tentative findings suggest that, further down the decision chain, parole boards counteract the remaining influence of the guidelines. Immigration and Crime in Early 20th Century America (with Carolyn Moehling).   We find that a century ago immigrants may have been slightly more likely than natives to be involved in crime.  Aggregation bias and the absence of accurate population data meant that analysts at the time missed important features of the immigrant-native incarceration comparison, especially because the closing of the borders in the 1920s meant that immigrants were increasingly older than natives and, consequently, less prone to crime.  Our analyses control carefully for age, and show that prison commitment rates for more serious crimes were quite similar by nativity in 1904, but by 1930, immigrants were less likely than natives to be committed to prisons at all ages 20 and older. Preparing Prisoners for Employment: The Power of Small Rewards (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Civic Report no. 57, May 2009). This report describes a prisoner reentry program in Montgomery County, Maryland.  At release, nearly 90% are employed.  The paper argues that the behavioral techniques employed by this Pre-release Center can be adapted by other reentry programs or parole agencies to improve inmate accountability and attach inmates to the legitimate labor market. Publications:

Kohl, James E.

Prior to joining Rutgers, James E. Kohl was a United States Marine and after a tour in Vietnam he joined the Detroit Police Department where he spent the next 20 years working his way up the ranks. In Detroit he worked multiple street and undercover assignments, was the team leader of the SWAT team and later served as a legal advisor for the City. Kohl also had positions as Police Chief and Director of Public Safety in communities in Michigan and Iowa. In addition to his policing experience, Kohl is also trained as a firefighter and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and the National Fire Academy. His education includes a Master’s degree and a Juris Doctorate, and he remains a member of the bar. Kohl has published many articles on responding to emergencies, the duty to protect, and a host of other publications on improving public safety services.

Welch, Michael

Biography MICHAEL WELCH is a Professor in the Criminal Justice program at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) where his research interests include punishment, Foucault studies, and human rights. His key writings have appeared in such journals as The British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, Punishment & Society, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, The Prison Journal, Crime, Law & Social Change, and Social Justice. Welch is author of Crimes of Power & States of Impunity: The U.S. Response to Terror (2009, Rutgers University Press), Scapegoats of September 11th: Hate Crimes and State Crimes in the War on Terror (2006, Rutgers University Press), Ironies of Imprisonment (2005, Sage), Detained: Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex (2002, Temple University Press), Flag Burning: Moral Panic and the Criminalization of Protest (2000, de Gruyter), Punishment in America (1999, Sage), and Corrections: A Critical Approach (3rd edition, 2011, Routledge). His newest books are titled: Escape to Prison: Penal Tourism & the Pull of Punishment (2015, University of California Press), and The Bastille Effect: Transforming Sties of Political Imprisonment (2022, University of California Press.He served as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics, as well as a Visiting Professor at Facolta di Giurisprudenza, Universita Degli Studi di Bologna (Italy), Facultad de Ciencias Juridicas y Sociales, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Santa Fe, Argentina), and in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney (Australia). In 2017, he was a Visiting Research Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). More recently, Welch is a Visiting Professor at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics.For more information about Professor Welch, please visit his website www.professormichaelwelch.com.   Publications:

Winstead, Antonia

Antonia Winstead teaches for the Program in Criminal Justice, including the Internship course for C.J. majors. She earned her Master of Social Work degree from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick, and her Bachelor of Science degree in Government Pre-Law from Oral Roberts University. Winstead attended the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law in Washington, D.C. She has over 20 years of experience in Individual and Family Counseling; furthermore, her specific areas of social work interests include Mental Health, Clinical Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Family Counseling. Another passion of Winstead’s is traveling and examining social work practices in other countries and cultures: she traveled to both Israel and South Africa for extended periods of time to complete research and various projects comparing social work practices there to those in the United States. Winstead has six years of experience working as a Program Director for the Department of Law and Public Safety with the Division of Criminal Justice in New Jersey in Instruction and Training Roles. During her time there she counseled adolescent substance abusers, provided therapy for family crisis prevention, and was responsible for creating and implementing treatment plans for sexual assault offenders. Moreover, Winstead served as a career counselor for students preparing to enter into the professional field of Criminal Justice. Many of Winstead’s projects and roles involved working with crisis intervention, victim’s rights and assistance, law enforcement, and counseling. Winstead developed, coordinated, and implemented a state-wide victim notification service for when prisoners were released. She also directed personnel development and victim assistance training for 560 local police municipalities. In 2008, Winstead launched The Clarity Legacy Institute, LLC, an organization dedicated to teaching women, executive leaders, and clergy how to leave a legacy for generations to come through mental wholeness.

Walen, Alec D.

  Dr. Alec Walen is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, jointly appointed in the School of Law (Camden), the Department of Philosophy (New Brunswick), and the Program in Criminal Justice (New Brunswick). He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of Pittsburgh in 1993. He has recently taught courses in criminal law and moral philosophy. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, Walen was a research scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He has also taught at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, Aachen University in Germany, the University of Baltimore, Harvard University, and Lafayette College. Walen’s academic work has ranged over topics in moral philosophy, constitutional law, national security law, and criminal law. He has published in a number of journals, including: the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, the Journal of Value Inquiry, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Constitutional Commentary, Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, and many law reviews. He has published The Mechanics of Claims and Permissible Killing in War (Oxford University Press, 2019) and is working on a second book: Punishment, Penalty, and Prevention in a Liberal State. Two recent articles of interest to criminal justice students are: (1) “On Blame and Punishment: Self-Blame, Other-Blame, and Normative Negligence,” Law and Philosophy 41 (2022): 283-304 (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3681644); and “Criminal Law and Penal Law: The Wrongness Constraint and a Complementary Forfeiture Model,” Criminal Law and Philosophy 14 (2020): 431-446 (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3449533). Publications:

Miller, Lisa L.

Biography Lisa L. Miller is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1999. Her research interests are in violent crime/criminal justice, racial inequality, democratic accountability, constitutions, and social policy. She has written three books: The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty and the Politics of Crime Control (OUP, 2008) and the Politics of Community Crime Prevention (Dartmouth, 2001). Her work has appeared in Law and Society Review, Punishment and Society, British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, Perspectives on Politics, Policy Studies Journal, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, among others. Miller has served as a Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, and as a Visiting Scholar at the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is currently working on two books, one on U.S. constitutional myths, and the other on the political origins of lethal violence in the Americas. Website: lisalmiller.com Publications:

Desire, Mark

Mark Desire is both an Instructor in the Program in Criminal Justice, and an Assistant Director with the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner. He works for the Department of Forensic Biology, New York City’s DNA crime lab. Desire has worked there for 15 years and has completed thousands of criminal and Missing Persons cases. His previous employment includes developing biological warfare detection systems for the United States Army. Desire holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology, a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology, and his Juris Doctor from New York Law School. He is a certified DNA auditor and ASCLD inspector; furthermore, he is also a board certified Molecular Specialist with the American Board of Criminalists. Desire is the Family Assistance Center manager for New York City and has been assigned to multiple mass fatalities. Additionally, Desire has taught Criminal Justice courses and Forensic Science courses at Rutgers University, Pace University, and John Jay College.

Hirschfield, Paul

Dr. Paul Hirschfield is an Affiliated Professor in the Program in Criminal Justice, as well as Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University in 2003. His research has focused on a broad range of topics pertaining to crime and justice with an emphasis on their relationship to youth, education, and social policy. Hirschfield’s work demonstrates that juvenile justice involvement adversely affects educational attainment among a sample of inner-city Chicago high school students, and explains large gender differences in high school dropout among sampled African-American students. Interviews he conducted with young ex-offenders explored the social and institutional interactions that help mediate the impact of juvenile justice contact on developmental outcomes and recidivism. His work is part of a larger research agenda that aims to uncover the causes and social implications of the widespread criminalization of adolescent deviance and school misconduct in the inner-city. In that connection, Hirschfield’s most recent research examines how aggressive, proactive policing influences children’s perceptions of the strength of prosocial norms in their neighborhoods, as well as their own attitudes toward and compliance with the law. Hirschfield has participated in separate experimental evaluations of the impact of the Moving to Opportunity program and the Comer School Development Program on rates of juvenile court involvement. With support from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (U.S. Department of Justice) and the Spencer Foundation, he is conducting a study of the impact of mainstream and alternative school re-enrollment on the reentry success of young ex-offenders in New York City. Hirschfield’s work has appeared in Criminology, Sociology of Education, Theoretical Criminology, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and others.

Donnelly, Brian M.

Brian Donnelly earned his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, and his Bachelor of Science degree in Administration of Justice from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He became a member of the New Jersey Bar in 1997. Donnelly has worked as a police officer for 25 years, and is currently a Captain assigned as a patrol commander for a police department in Union County. His tenure as a police officer and as a detective has included work with homicide, sex crimes, and narcotics for which he has received numerous valor awards and commendations. Donnelly also currently works with the law firm of Bramnick, Rodriquez, Mitterhoff, Grabas, and Woodruff. In addition to his course teaching with the Program in Criminal Justice, Donnelly has taught criminal justice and business law courses at Raritan Valley Community College for 10 years. For 6 years he taught at Centenary College, and for several years he was the lead instructor for the Port Authority Police Academy in the areas of Use of Force and Constitutional Law; moreover, while teaching at the Port Authority Police Academy Donnelly wrote several policies in both areas. Donnelly is most interested in constitutional law as it pertains to police-citizen encounters with a focus on 4th amendment arrest, search and seizure, and 5th amendment police interviews and interrogations. He enjoys blending his legal background with his police experience to give students a better understanding of criminal justice. Furthermore, Donnelly has a strong interest in the study of Police Use of Force and its various policies and case studies.

Yuzuk, Jennifer

As a graduate of Rutgers University, Jennifer Yuzuk is looking forward to bringing her expertise and real-world knowledge of community supervision to students. She has served as a Senior Probation Officer for nine teen years, with emphasis on adult supervision. Prior to being assigned to Recovery Court, Yuzuk served as an adult supervision officer ensuring probationers were in compliance of the orders of the court. Her professional experience also includes working with the Adult Substance Abuse Program (ASAP), Middlesex County Jail. She is a certified Core Correctional Practices (CCP) trainer. In 2012 she earned her master's degree from Seton Hall University and graduated with honors. In 2020 she earned an EDS Degree (Educational Specialist) from Seton Hal University and graduated with honors. Yuzuk is excited to create a classroom environment where professional knowledge, current challenges, and trends are examined so that future criminal justice professionals are prepared for their careers.

Nettl, Philip

Philip Nettl, Esq. is a practicing attorney in New Brunswick, with the law firm of Benedict and Altman. His practice focuses exclusively on Criminal Defense. He is a two-time graduate of Rutgers, having received his Bachelor’s Degree from Rutgers University, and his law degree from Rutgers Law School-Camden. He joined Benedict and Altman directly from law school in 2004, and has built up his experience in criminal cases ever since. Nettl’s first trial experience came in a capital murder trial, the last capital prosecution in Middlesex County. Since then, he has conducted numerous jury trials in both state and federal courts. His most publicized trial experience came while representing Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student accused of invading his roommate's privacy. In addition to representing clients at the trial level, Nettl also has an accomplished appellate practice, as he coordinates most of the appeals handled by the firm. Nettl is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey, the Middlesex County Bar Association, and the New Brunswick Bar Association. He is also licensed to practice in Pennsylvania. He was recently appointed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey to the District VIII Ethics Committee, a volunteer organization of lawyers that investigates complaints of attorney misconduct in Middlesex County region. In 2010 and 2012, Nettl was named in New Jersey Super Lawyers magazine as a "Rising Star" in the field of Criminal Defense. In addition to teaching at Rutgers, he has been a guest lecturer at Brookdale Community College, and he lectures at Continuing Legal Education seminars for fellow attorneys.

Sheridan, Matthew J.

Biography Dr. Matthew Sheridan, former Director of Highfields, holds a doctorate from Rutgers University. He has more than 35 years of experience working with both correctional adults and juveniles, advocates for education, and especially higher education in correctional institutions and upon release. He has served as Vice President of the Board for the New Jersey Association on Corrections, is an ad hoc consultant to Volunteers of America Delaware Valley and supports and encourages the use of evidence-based practices. Sheridan aligns with Convict Criminology and is a strong proponent for correctional reform and especially support for those being released from prison. Dr. Sheridan presents frequently on topics of abuse in corrections and careers in criminal justice. He has publications with Oxford University Press, Journal of Prisons and Prisoners, The Journal of Correctional Education, New Jersey Criminal Justice Educator, Justice Policy Journal, and Contemporary Justice Review. Publications:

Paolillo, Christine

Christine Paolillo graduated from the College of Staten Island with a Masters Degree in English Literature and in 1999 with a Masters in Liberal Studies. She is currently working on her doctrine in Organizational Education from the University of Seattle. Paolillo has been a lecturer at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York for the past 3 years. Paolillo is a retired police officer from the New York City Police Department. During her 24 year career she was assigned to numerous units within the police department: her final assignment was teaching at the NYPD police academy. During her 10 years at the police academy, Paolillo taught over 10,000 incoming police recruits the academic requirements in order to graduate and become a NYPD officer.

Soto, Luis

Luis R. Soto earned his Ed.D. ABD and MPA from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and his A.A. in Criminal Justice from Union County College. He worked for the New Jersey Department of Corrections for 25 years and held the highest custody rank of Major at Northern State Prison located in Newark, N.J. During his tenure with the NJDOC he has held many positions including Assistant School Director of the Correctional Staff Training Academy located in Sea Girt, N.J. Furthermore, he has been a Certified Instructor with the Police Training Commission since 2001. In addition to his course teaching with the Program in Criminal Justice, Soto has taught criminal justice courses at Essex County College as a guest lecturer for the past 5 years. His interests in the field of Corrections deals mostly in the studies of recidivism rates and re-entry programs offered to released offenders.

Leon, Sebastian

  18-July-2019 Bio Kenneth Sebastian León is an Assistant Professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He specializes in crimes of the powerful and racialized social control. León is a former research contractor at U.S. Department of Justice – National Institute of Justice and has extensive experience studying localized public safety challenges using qualitative and mixed methods approaches. These include medium and large-scale collaborative studies of the Colombian National Police, the Honduran National Police, U.S. jails, and the transnational capacity of MS-13 in the United States and El Salvador. León’s book, Corrupt Capital – Alcohol, Nightlife, and Crimes of the Powerful (Routledge), intimately describes and explains the social, political, and economic forces that make white-collar crime and corruption a staple feature of the nightlife economy. Methodologically, the research is innovative in advancing criminological inquiry into ethically and logistically challenging environments while avoiding the voyeuristic and reductionist tropes historically associated with "dangerous fieldwork.” Additional works appear in Criminology & Public Policy; Critical Criminology; Crime, Law and Social Change; Ethnography; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy; Journal on Migration and Human Security; Journal of Psychoactive Drugs; the Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology; Race and Justice; among other refereed and public outlets. Since joining the Rutgers community, Dr. León has applied for over $5.2 million in extramural funding. Dr. León serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, and is as a Guest Editor for a forthcoming special issue in Latino Studies. For more information about his research and teaching portfolio, please visit www.ksebastianleon.com. RECENT ARTICLES: Berg, Ulla D., Kenneth Sebastian León, and Sarah R. Tosh. 2022. Carceral Ethnography in a Time of Pandemic: Examining Migrant Detention and Deportation. Ethnography. Online First: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14661381211072414 Ken Ivy and Kenneth Sebastian León. 2022. Regulatory Theater in the Pork Industry: How the Capitalist State Harms Workers, Farmers, and Unions. Crime, Law and Social Change. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-022-10019-0

Erakat, Noura

   Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include human rights law, humanitarian law, national security law, refugee law, social justice, and critical race theory. Noura is an editorial committee member of the Journal for Palestine Studies and a co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic magazine on the Middle East that combines scholarly expertise and local knowledge. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019). Noura’s scholarly publications include: “Racism, whiteness, and burnout in antiracism movements: How white racial justice activists elevate burnout in racial justice activists of color in the United States" in Ethnicities; "New Imminence in the Time of Obama: The Impact of Targeted Killings on the Law of Self-Defense" in the Arizona Law Review; and "Overlapping Refugee Legal Regimes: Closing the Protection Gap During Secondary Forced Displacement," in the Oxford Journal of International Refugee Law. Her multimedia productions include the Black Palestinian Solidarity video and website as well as the Gaza In Context Pedagogical Project, featuring a short documentary. A full list of her scholarly publications can be found here. Her current research seeks to examine the activist praxes in contemporary renewals of Black-Palestinian solidarity as well as technologies of surveillance and counter-surveillance in greater East Jerusalem. Noura served as Legal Counsel for the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee in the House of Representatives from 2007-2009. Prior to her time on Capitol Hill, Noura received a New Voices Fellowship to work as the national grassroots organizer and legal advocate at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura worked as the Legal Advocacy Coordinator for the Badil Center for Refugee and Residency Rights from 2010-2013. In that capacity, she drafted their submissions to the human rights treaty bodies and lobbied the US Congress as well as diplomatic missions at the United Nations on their behalf. Noura has appeared on CBS News, CNN International with Becky Anderson, CNN with Don Lemon, MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes,” "All In With Chris Hayes," "Ronan Farrow Daily," Fox’s “The O’ Reilly Factor,” NBC’s “Politically Incorrect,” PBS News Hour, NPR, BBC World Service, Democracy Now, and Al-Jazeera America, Arabic, and English. Her publications have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Review of Books, The LA Times, The Nation, USA Today, The Hill, Foreign Policy, Jezebel, Al Ahram English, Al Shabaka, MERIP, Fair Observer, Middle East Eye, The Interdependent, IntLawGrrls, The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, and Jadaliyya. Noura earned her J.D. and undergraduate degrees from the University of California at Berkeley (Phi Beta Kappa) and a LLM in National Security from Georgetown University Law Center (Distinction & Dean’s List). She also earned a LLM in Legal Education by completing the Abraham L. Freedman Teaching Fellowship at Temple University, Beasley School of Law. Books: Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine Edited Anthologies: Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures NGOs in the Arab World Post-Arab Uprisings: Domestic and International Politics of Funding and Regulation  

Celiksu, Sinan

Before joining Rutgers University, Dr. Celiksu took positions as a visiting faculty at Humboldt State University, as a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia University, and as a Research Fellow at Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany). Dr. Sinan Celiksu is a Teaching Instructor in the Program in Criminal Justice. Dr. Celiksu’s teaching interests include Qualitative Research Methods, Crime and Social Policy, Criminology, Crime and Justice from Cultural Perspectives, and Crimes of the Powerful. He uses quantitative and qualitative methodologies to understand the implications of globalization and neoliberalism on the criminalization of specific populations and the rise of right-wing extremism. His Former research sites include Italy, Kosovo, Turkey, and the US. 

Martinez-Schuldt, Ricardo

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and faculty affiliate of the Criminal Justice Program at Rutgers University. I received my PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019. Generally, my research examines how local contexts shape human behavior and institutional action in the areas of criminology and international migration. My current research focuses on the neighborhood and city-level correlates of crime, crime reporting behavior, and officer-involved shootings. I pay special attention to how socio-demographic characteristics, social policy, as well as the presence of civil society and religious organizations structure community dynamics and individual actors. Recently, I examined the impact of immigrant “sanctuary” policies on city-level violence in addition to their effects on the likelihood that individuals report crime victimization to law enforcement officials. My research has appeared in various academic journals including American Sociological Review, Justice Quarterly, Human Rights Quarterly, and International Migration Review.

Jones, James

Dr. Jones received his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, and master’s degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. In addition, he also has two PhDs. His first PhD is in Public Safety specializing in Criminal Justice, and his second PhD is in Criminal Justice with a specialization in Behavioral Sciences from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Prior to teaching at the collegiate level, Dr. Jones held various positions in the juvenile justice field in Maryland and New York City as Resident Advisor (Juvenile Corrections Officer), Case Management Specialist III (Juvenile Probation Officer), and Deputy Director of Operations and Director of Operations of a juvenile detention center (Juvenile Jail). Dr. Jones also has law enforcement experience as a Seasonal Police Officer in Ocean City, Maryland. In additional to his practical experience, Dr. Jones has taught at multiple Colleges and Universities. He also has published three criminology textbooks, as well as many peer reviewed research articles. His research interests include criminal justice issues in social justice, police community relations, and criminology.
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