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of Criminal Justice
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Magazine of Criminal Justice

Jeremy travis

E D UC A T I NG F O R JUST IC E

Dear friends of John Jay College,

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
Asking the
2 RIGHT QUESTIONS
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
in freshman enrollment over 2009. This new class set another record: 85 percent of them came to our orientation for new
students. At the same time, almost 1,200 transfer students enrolled at the College, along with 480 new graduate students.

Undergraduates shine
as first-rate researchers
5 BLANCHE ELEANOR
During this past year, we successfully launched the CUNY Justice Academy, our joint degree partnership program with the six
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
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.

9 WHERE THE TRUTH LIES:

The Phenomenon of
Ambitious faculty hiring continues with strong support from CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein. Even in these times of financial
constraints, we welcomed 20 new full-time faculty to our College. In fall 2004, John Jay had 338 full-time faculty; in fall 2010 we
False Confessions have 424 full-time faculty. They are an impressive group, having earned their doctorates from some of the best universities in the
world. They value John Jay’s distinctive interdisciplinary environment and embrace the opportunity to teach our highly motivated,
justice-oriented students.
CAN OBJECTS SPEAK?
11 College Hopes So,
Enriched academic programs lie at the heart of John Jay’s transformation. Enrollment in new liberal arts has already exceeded
As Hi-Tech Teaching
our expectations — 200 John Jay students declared majors in English and 174 in Economics. These distinctive majors speak
Takes Hold
to our mission of “educating for justice.” This year, our new Honors Program admitted its inaugural class of 25 students.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Professor John Matteson was selected to serve as the first Faculty Director of this program, which is
designed to nurture students’ academic excellence and leadership potential in order to prepare them to meet the global
President
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 Students making presentations at
conference

Among those students who presented research at the Students

Posters and presentations from McNair scholars
“Celebrating Research and Creativity @ John Jay” are selected

Right Asking the

conference last May were those who are being mentored and
funded by a program within the Department of Sciences called for the

Questions
Undergraduates Shine as First-Rate Researchers
By Jennifer Nislow
From the origins of an essential
blood-clotting protein to the
Our hope
well-being of immigrant
is that mothers, from the horror of
While teaching will always be a pillar of
John Jay’s mission, the College has shown
continued growth towards becoming a
research-focused institution, particularly
with regard to its undergraduate population,
according to Anne Lopes, Dean of
PRISM (Program for Research Initiatives for Science Majors).
“One thing we hope to do is find a bridge
between faculty research and
undergraduates’ ability to conduct research.
We think it will help improve what
undergraduates do at that level, and increase
faculty engagement and contact with them,”
said Lopes. “I think that it will spur students
on to achieve more. Our hope is that 25
percent of undergraduates will engage in
research at some time during their career.”
While the program combines four revenue
streams to award stipends of up to $2,500
per academic year, perhaps more significant
is that PRISM exposes students to
professional conferences, other researchers,
program
platelets stick together to form clots. The
mystery, according to Piszczatowski, is
where the CTGF comes from, since the cells
based on
that produce platelets have none of the
protein. their desire
“I’m trying to figure out how the to do
cells that make the blood
platelets signal to the other research
cells, ‘I’m making blood
platelets, we need to get this and the
protein into them soon,’” he
said. “What I did was take the
submission

25 percent of human trafficking to the

Undergraduate Studies. professors and potential research advisers,
and offers them the opportunity to present
DNA sequence of CTGF. What of a
their work. Students are selected for the happens is there are a group
undergraduates characteristics of bank program based on their desire to do
research and the submission of a research
of enzymes that read this DNA research
robbers, John Jay students sequence and produce the
will engage in proposal.
proposal
displayed the breadth of their important protein. But there
Richard Piszczatowski, 21, a junior and
research at scholarship during a week-long Forensic Science major, has been conducting has to be something to kick
some time original research on the protein CTGF start that because you can’t
conference that highlighted the (Connective Tissue Growth Factor) whose
always be making proteins
during their year’s research at the main function is to help cells stick together
and to grow. Blood platelets are full of the 24-7,” said Piszczatowski.
career. undergraduate level. substance, which makes sense since
Anne Lopes, Dean of Undergraduate Studies

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(L-R) Lauren Weidner,
Professor Nathan Lents and
Richard Piszczatowski
John Jay’s
new Office of
Undergraduate
Research (OUR)...
will operate
alongside of
PRISM
and the College’s
Ronald E. McNair
Post-Baccalaureate
Achievement
Program
to give students in
a broader range
of majors
the opportunity to
conduct research.
His preliminary results show a connection
between CTGF and another protein, MZF-1
(Myeloid Zinc Finger 1), which is abundant in
the cells that produce blood platelets.
“If our research and results go well, this
project will add to the information of where
blood clots come from and how they are
getting this protein that is really necessary
for clotting,” he said. “Maybe someone could
target this as an area in people who have
very poor blood-platelet production or very
poor blood-platelet adhesion. That’s the
ultimate goal.”
Piszczatowski’s mentor is Professor Nathan
H. Lents, a member of the Department of
Sciences faculty, who will head John Jay’s
new Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR).
The office will operate alongside of PRISM
and the College’s Ronald E. McNair
Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program to
give students in a broader range of majors
the opportunity to conduct research.
According to Lents, OUR is the result of
roughly a year’s worth of planning by Lopes
and a team of faculty. He will sit on a
common advisory board with Professor
Anthony Carpi, the acting Chairman of the
Department of Sciences who heads PRISM,
and Theresa Booker, the director of the
McNair Program.
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“There is undergraduate research that goes
on at the College, quite a bit of it,” said
Lents. “But it’s in little pockets of
success….The idea was to bring all this
together, share successful strategies,
successful models, but also be aware that
one size does not fit all,” he said. “There are
a lot of discipline-specific differences that
some of us don’t appreciate, so a central
office will help navigate that.”
In her presentation, Kristyn Fiorini, 21, a
senior and Forensic Science major, examined
the nightmarish world of international sex
trafficking and prostitution. The third most
profitable crime in the world after drugs and
weapons, trafficking is a $7 billion a year
business that is a “contemporary form of
bondage,” she said. While victims can be of
either gender, the majority are women.
Kristyn Fiorini, 21, a senior and Forensic Science major
continued on page 21
Blanche Wiesen Cook, Distinguished Professor of History
BLANCHE
(AND HER PEERS
“Go South for freedom.”
With these words, uttered in 1961, Blanche
Wiesen Cook, then a young student activist
and president of the student government at
Hunter College, was moved to board a bus
along with dozens of classmates and head
for North Carolina to get involved in the civil
rights movement. Little could she have
known at the time that the woman who urged
her to “go South” — the revered former First
Lady Eleanor Roosevelt — would become the
focus of a biographical examination that
would consume nearly three decades of
Cook’s life, in the process helping to define
and cap her career as a historian and earning
her near-universal peer acclaim.
It’s been a long road for a scholarly project
that Cook originally envisioned taking about
two years. Cook’s career itself has been a
long, winding trail that has taken her from
undergraduate study at Hunter College to
Johns Hopkins University to more than 40
years as a faculty member at John Jay,
where today she is University Distinguished
Professor of History and Women’s Studies.
“The bottom line is I am an activist and a journalist
and a historian — not necessarily in that order,
but they all connect.”
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt sculpture in Riverside Park
ELEANOR
BLANCHE)
By Peter Dodenhoff
Little could she
“I always say my life is an accident,” Cook
notes. In fact, it was an accident — literally have known at the
— that helped chart her scholarly course,
after a mishap during a gymnastics meet time that the
derailed her plans to major in physical
education. “After that I majored in just about woman who urged
every course I took. I fell in love with
anthropology, with history and government. her to “go South”
The accident changed my life into becoming
a historian and an anthropologist. — the revered
“I’ve always had people call me up and say
former First
‘Would you like to… have a column? …. have
a radio program?’ I’ve done all those things.
I did have a syndicated column, and I did
Lady Eleanor
have a wonderful 20-year career on Pacifica
Radio. The bottom line is I am an activist and
Roosevelt —
a journalist and a historian — not necessarily
in that order, but they all connect.”
would become
They connect to form a scholar who has the focus
distinguished herself in more ways than just
the capitalized title she bears. In January of a biographical
2010, the American Historical Association’s
annual conference included a “Roundtable in examination
Celebration of Blanche Wiesen Cook” —
that would
consume nearly
three decades
of Cook’s life.
 Blanche Cook relaxing in
East Hampton, NY, 1993
Courtesy:
Jonathan Silin/
New York Public Library
Cook is a tribute described as “very, very unusual”
by her longtime John Jay colleague,
Distinguished Professor of History Gerald
a role model Markowitz. “To have a session dealing with
the body of work of someone in the
for creating profession is extremely unusual, but it’s also
very relevant in terms of Blanche, because
a joyful, she is rightly seen as doing absolutely
cutting-edge, innovative work in a wide
creative life variety of areas.”
In April, Cook reeled in yet another top-shelf
that honor when she was presented with the Bill
Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement
combines by the Publishing Triangle, the association of
gays and lesbians in publishing.
scholarship What dazzles Cook’s colleagues — in
academia, publishing or the front lines of
and activism. activism — is not simply the breadth of her
scholarship, which has already included
groundbreaking explorations of former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, early-20th
century feminist and American Civil Liberties
Union co-founder Crystal Eastman and, of
course, Eleanor Roosevelt. It’s Cook’s
passion that really sets her apart. “She really
throws herself into her work, and is
passionate about the world that she is
exploring,” said Markowitz. “What is
wonderful about her as a historian and a
biographer is that she is interested in her
subjects’ complexity — what made them
“What is wonderful about her as a historian and
a biographer is that she is interested in her subjects’
complexity — what made them important, where did they
fail, what made them human.”
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important, where did they fail, what made
them human.”
Debra L. Schultz, a historian and author of
Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil
Rights Movement, singles out Cook as an
“activist historian.” She sees her former
graduate school mentor as “a role model for
creating a joyful, creative life that combines
scholarship and activism.”
Cook came to her award-winning, best-selling
biography of Eleanor Roosevelt in, again, an
accidental way. She was hunkered down in
Abilene, KS, conducting research for what
would become The Declassified Eisenhower:
A Divided Legacy of Peace and Political
Warfare. (That research, and the fight to
declassify volumes of presidential
documents, would in turn lead Cook to
co-found, along with Markowitz and former
John Jay history professor William Preston,
the Fund for Open Information and
Accountability.) While in Abilene, she was
asked to review what she called “a really
stupid book” about Eleanor Roosevelt and
Lorena Hickok, the journalist who became
Roosevelt’s confidante. Joseph Lash, the
esteemed biographer of Franklin and Eleanor
Roosevelt, suggested to Cook that she write
about Eleanor and “Hick.” Cook demurred,
saying, “I don’t do that; I do international
relations.”
Lash persisted, and Cook was ultimately
convinced that there was indeed a book
waiting to be written about Eleanor. As Cook
would discover, her subject was not the
oft-depicted cardboard figure standing by her
husband, the President, through some of the
darkest times this nation has known. “She’s
an amazing woman with an amazing vision
that embraces the world,” Cook explains.
“When you’re with her on her journeys, it’s
never boring. The good news for historians,
and why she is infinite and infinitely usable, is
that she writes it all down — in her columns,
in her press conferences, which were for
women journalists only, in her letters to Hick
and in her letters to Esther Lape” [a journalist
who was another Roosevelt confidante].
Cook never imagined herself spending as
long as she has with the Eleanor Roosevelt
saga. “I signed the contract in 1982, the
year after Eisenhower came out, and I
thought I could finish this by the ER
centennial in 1984,” she recalled. “I thought
that would be the end of it. But there was no
way it could be done quickly.” Volume One of
the trilogy covers Eleanor from birth through
1933, including the deaths of both parents at
a young age, her marriage to Franklin, his
She has transformed our whole conception of the New
Deal era through her examination of Eleanor Roosevelt as
the conscience of the nation, as the person who was able
to see the reality of people’s lives and bring it back to FDR,
and someone who was able to push Roosevelt to do more
for people than he might have done.
First Lady Eleanor
Roosevelt holding the
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
infirmities and infidelities, Eleanor’s
relationships with other women, including
Volume Two
Hickok, and more. Volume Two shows
Eleanor to be an invaluable asset to her shows
husband and the nation through the Great
Depression and the efforts of the New Deal Eleanor to be
programs to cope with it. “As a political wife
she creates an incredibly usable role for an invaluable
herself,” Cook points out, in that she is the
bridge to the visionary folks and to the asset to her
activists. A lot of things are not yet on FDR’s
agenda, he’s not even considering them, but
as First Lady, Eleanor is really pushing the
husband and
agenda forward in a progressive, human
rights/civil rights direction.”
the nation
Markowitz says emphatically of his colleague: through the
“She has transformed our whole conception
of the New Deal era through her examination Great
of Eleanor Roosevelt as the conscience of
the nation, as the person who was able to
see the reality of people’s lives and bring it
Depression
back to FDR, and someone who was able to
push Roosevelt to do more for people than
and the
he might have done.”
efforts of
The third volume of the biography, covering
the war years, the death of FDR and
Eleanor’s forceful service as a delegate to
the New Deal
programs to
cope with it.
 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.
“Labels don’t
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,”
says Cook. “I was always dazzled by

bother me,”
she says.
“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
who I am, recalled. A pause for reflection and additional
research convinced her to continue, as was
and I work also the case when she spotted an apparent
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 always felt that I learned more
than I taught.”
Markowitz adds: “It’s really quite
extraordinary for someone who is as forceful
Truth Lies:
and opinionated as Blanche to insist upon The Phenomenon of False Confessions
hearing from her students, and insist that if
they disagree with her, they argue with her
By Marie Rosen

shift in Eleanor’s style and public efforts
hard at vis-à-vis the civil rights movement after FDR’s
death.
trying to The biography may soon be wrapped up but
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
You can label writing about her, but I’ll never be finished
with her as a guide, as a mentor — you
me anything know, ‘What would Eleanor do?’” Eleanor
Roosevelt is more relevant today than ever,
you like, as Cook insists. “We’ve just been through 10
years of an administration that completely
long as you spit on the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights,” one of Roosevelt’s crowning
pronounce achievements during her service with the
U.N.
and spell my Cook is no mere ivory tower scholar;
name right.” her activism and passion would
and state why they disagree. 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.”
Her many transitions — from military
historian to peace historian to feminist and
political biographer, from civil rights activist
to peace activist to women’s rights activist
and icon, from radio and TV host to
newspaper and magazine columnist — are all
of a piece with Cook. She fears neither
spreading herself too thin nor being
pigeonholed.. “Labels don’t bother me,” she
says. “I’m very proud to be who I am, and I
work hard at trying to keep it up. You can
label me anything you like, as long as you
pronounce and spell my name right.”
Peter Dodenhoff is editor of @John Jay.
People confess to crimes they did not commit. Counterintuitive?
Yes, but it happens and it happens in every country and throughout time.
Although there are no specific statistics
concerning the frequency of false con-
fessions, Distinguished Professor of
Psychology Saul Kassin believes they occur
with some regularity and more often than you
might think. He became interested in the
phenomenon more than 25 years ago while
studying juries and jury decision making. In
every case he looked at, the jury always
convicted when there was a confession.
It made him aware of just how “powerful”
a confession was and made him wonder,
“whether confessions were as perfect,
reliable and infallible as everybody thought.”
Kassin categorizes those who falsely confess Kassin categorizes
into three categories: voluntary confessions,
those who falsely
internalized false confessions, and compliant
confess into
false confessions. With voluntary confes-
sions, people may confess to protect three categories:
someone else, because they are delusional,
or to attract attention in cases of high profile voluntary
crimes — like the 200 people who confessed confessions,
to the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s baby
internalized false
or like John Mark Karr who confessed to
killing JonBenet Ramsey. Kassin notes that confessions, and
police do a good job at weeding out these compliant false
false confessors as serious suspects and
confessions.
that these cases don’t result in wrongful
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
promises made or implied to him if he confesses.”
What concerns him are the other two types of
false confessors where interrogation plays a
big role. Internalized false confessions can
occur when the suspect is a juvenile, mentally
handicapped, grieving the death of a loved
one, or because he hasn’t slept in days.
When police lie to such suspects about
possessing evidence, a practice that is
legally permissible, the vulnerable suspect
gets confused, has the impression that
people do things they don’t remember and
tries to form a memory about the crime even
though he did not commit it.
But, the largest category of false confessions
that Kassin says is of most concern to the
criminal justice system is the one he calls
compliant false confessions. “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
Internalized time, he may feel threatened, he may have
had promises made or implied to him if he
false confesses. In other words, given the situation
he is in, the suspect decides it is in his best
confessions interest to confess.” Kassin describes the
can occur situation as similar to when people change
their public behavior, but privately do not
change their mind. Kassin says the Central
when the Park Jogger Case was just such a situation.
suspect is a
juvenile,
mentally
handicapped,
grieving the
death of
a loved one,
or because
he hasn’t slept
in days. (L-R) Brian Wallace, Professor Saul Kassin and Jennifer Perillo
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Can Objects Speak?
COLLEGE HOPES SO,
“They always knew they didn’t do it. Every AS HI-TECH TEACHING TAKES HOLD
one of those boys said he thought he was By Jennifer Nislow
going to go home after confessing.” Kassin
thinks, “psychologically these are the
simplest to understand. Everybody has a
breaking point.”
Kassin also points out there are many
misconceptions when it comes to detecting
when someone is lying. In fact, he says, a
study to be published in Communication
Research shows that people who watch the
show “Lie to Me” become worse and more
biased in detecting lies than people who don’t
watch the show. He also believes there is no
scientific evidence for tactics that look at
fidgeting or eye contact. “It’s common in
testimony from police who say, ‘I knew he
was our guy because when I asked him about
the crime he broke eye contact. He couldn’t
look me in the eye.’ In fact in 60 countries, it
is the one cue that everybody pays attention
to.” Yet in a meta-analysis of dozens of
studies involving thousands of subjects,
Kassin says the correlation between eye
contact or looking away and deception is
Professor Gregory H. Umbach
zero. “Interrogators who use these cues are If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the actual object captured in that image is
not going to be more accurate, they are only
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
faculty deeply engaged in an initiative to create and perfect downloadable audio-tours
of museum collections. These podcasts, they say, add a three-dimensional component
to what students are learning in the classroom.
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 —
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
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
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
with a uniquely holistic learning experience. considerably,” said Pangburn. “That’s
something rich media content offers because
their classes with
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
Instructional Technology and Support digital world does very well.”
learning
Services (ITSS). experience.
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
and Interdisciplinary Studies departments developed John Jay’s
the Humanities
for a project
first podcast in 2006 for his History of World Civilizations course.
Students had to download Umbach’s audio tour,
“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
Objects the problem of getting students to connect
with the images and texts used in traditional
Speak: teaching, said Umbach. “Students are
interested in flesh and blood people.
Objects convey ideas; they serve as the
mental furniture to assemble those ideas.
Portable Audio
Objects tell a history of Afro-European
encounter better than any classroom
Guides for lecture.”
In 2008, John Jay received approximately
Teaching with $192,400 in funding from the National
Endowment for the Humanities for a project
Visual Culture called “Making Objects Speak: Portable Audio
Guides for Teaching with Visual Culture in the
Humanities.” Bringing together faculty
in the members from a variety of disciplines and
CUNY colleges, its objective was to create
10 podcasts to support survey courses
Humanities.”
on history and literature through an exam-
ination of a given period’s religious and
cultural artifacts, and with walking tours
through historic New York City neighbor-
hoods, including the Lower East Side
and Harlem. All of the podcasts have
been completed.
Professor Patricia Licklider, a member of
John Jay’s English department faculty, has
created three podcasts for the project linked
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Professor Patricia Licklider
to courses she teaches on ancient Greek and
Roman literature.
“If you talk about the status of
women in ancient Greece, you can
see representations of that in the
art,” she said. “The heroes of the
Iliad wear elaborate, fancy armor,
but when the students see how
vulnerable it is, and how small it is,
their notions of the hero in Homer
change. They have to adjust their
estimations.”
continued on page 23
Ellen Burstyn, Peter Neufeld, Leymah Gbowee, Kara Hartzler, Barry Scheck, Rossana Rosado & President Travis
2010 John Jay
Justice Awards
recognize extraordinary dedication to the cause of justice
Before an enthusiastic audience of the John Jay
elected officials, public leaders and
other dignitaries, the John Jay
Medals for
Justice were
Medals for Justice were presented on
presented on
April 6, 2010 to Leymah Gbowee,
Executive Director of Women, Peace April 6, 2010 to
& Security Africa; the Florence, AZ Leymah Gbowee,
Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Executive
Project; and the Innocence Project.
Director of
Leymah Gbowee received the global leader
for justice award in recognition of her Women, Peace &
extraordinary commitment to mobilizing women
to stop the war in Liberia. Ellen Burstyn, Golden
Ellen Burstyn introduces Leymah Gbowee
Security Africa;
Globe and Academy Award winner presented Project. Mia Farrow, Golden Globe nominee,
served as the presenter for this award. the Florence, AZ
this award.
The national leader for justice award was given The community leader for justice award was Immigrant and
presented to the Florence Immigrant and
to The Innocence Project in acknowledge-
ment of the Project’s commitment to freeing Refugee Rights Project in recognition of their Refugee Rights
commitment to legally representing indigent
wrongfully convicted people through DNA Project; and
testing and reforming the criminal justice individuals detained in Arizona for immigration
removal proceedings. Kara Hartzler, Legal the Innocence
system to prevent future injustice. The award
was accepted by Barry Scheck and Peter Director, accepted the award for the Florence
Neufeld, co-founders/co-directors of the Project. Rossana Rosado, publisher of El Diario/ Project.
La Prensa, presented this award.
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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

Where the Truth Lies:

The Phenomenon of False Confessions
continued from page 10

His advice to interrogators is to keep an open already constructed something in

In addition to the presenters and recipients,
notables who participated in the ceremony
included: Joshua Bell, acclaimed classical
violinist, who was named the 2010
Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical
America, and Sing for Hope, world-class
artists who donate time and talent to the
humanitarian causes that inspire them.
Created in 2008, the John Jay Medal
for Justice honors individuals and
organizations that exemplify
dedication to the cause of justice.
The Hon. Judith Kaye was the first
recipient. Last year’s recipients were
Mary Robinson, former president of
Ireland; BJ Bernstein, a prominent
Atlanta attorney and the NYU
Brennan Center.
The College offers special thanks to
Richard J. Tarlow, a member of the John Jay
College Foundation Board, for graciously
underwriting the Justice Award Ceremony.
A Committee of the John Jay College
Foundation Board determined the selection of
the John Jay Justice Award recipients.
mind. “Interrogation is, by definition, a guilt
presumptive process.” The police use a
two-step approach. First they interview a
suspect and based on this interview they
make a judgment “this guy is lying” and
interrogate him or “he’s telling the truth” and
send him home. “Because it is a guilt
presumptive process, there is almost nothing
an innocent person can do to stop it. It
becomes relentless.” Kassin advises, “that the
data that come in after you have formed a
judgment are no less important than the data
you used to form that judgment. Keeping an
open mind is essential regardless of what
tactics are used.” He also advises that
interrogators should try to imagine that a
suspect is innocent and then think in terms of
how an innocent person might think.
Since both the guilty and the innocent
experience stress during
interrogations, looking for signs of
stress is misleading. The best way,
he says, to distinguish liars from
truth tellers is to concentrate on their
story. “It is cognitively and
intellectually more difficult to lie than
to tell the truth. The liars have
their heads. And the truth tellers will Kassin is
not be that distinguishable. But if you
a strong
challenge the suspect, say by asking
him to tell his story in reverse believer in
chronological order — whoa!
videotaping
Everyone slows down a bit. But to
the liars there is a whole interrogations
reconstruction of the lie and it really to help
impairs their ability to tell the story.
The liars become immediately and
prevent
perceptively different than the truth false
tellers.”
confessions.
Kassin is a strong believer in videotaping
interrogations to help prevent false
confessions. “It is the single most important
“It is the
reform we can make to the system. Hundreds
of jurisdictions now do it. Unanimously in
single most
jurisdictions where they do, police rave about
it. They find it more to their benefit than to
important
their detriment by a long shot.” Criminals who
confessed can no longer make frivolous
reform
claims of mistreatment or coercion. Just as
importantly, “when detectives go back and
we can make
review the tapes, they often see that the
suspect had inadvertently incriminated himself
to the system.”
and they didn’t even realize it because they

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 Shockingly, “In almost every single false confession case
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
physical research data he has been collecting, Kassin
thinks that judges and juries will be better
evidence. adjudicators of a confession when they see
the interrogation tapes, not just the final
confession, as opposed to relying on
second-hand accounts. “It gets at the truth
and it gets it in a way that will sometimes
favor the defense, but will more often favor
the state. Either way it is more likely to serve
justice.”
One aspect of interrogation that Kassin has
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,
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
suspects feel trapped.” For Kassin, lying
19 cases on about evidence should be limited or banned
outright. “I don’t have a problem with
record — confrontation using real evidence. But, once
you confront a suspect with false evidence,
and perhaps you’re treating the innocent just like the guilty.
Once you do that, even the innocent are going
many more — to get really anxious and start looking guilty.
It’s a cycle that goes nowhere good.”
where there is Instead of lying, police often use bluffing. They
don’t say, “we have your DNA.” Instead they
a confession
say, “we picked up DNA and sent it to the
lab.” Kassin used to think this was a good
followed by approach. But now he notes that although
bluffing can prompt the guilty to confess in
DNA that order to cut a better deal, it can backfire
contradicts when it comes to someone who is innocent. In
this instance, innocent people often believe
that the evidence will exonerate them, which
that paradoxically makes it easier for them to
confess. Kassin’s laboratory studies, soon to
confession. be published, show that using the bluff
technique makes innocent people confess at
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(L-R) Jennifer Perillo,
Professor Saul Kassin
and Brian Wallace
a high rate. A believer in the scientific method,
Kassin notes, “I could not have intuited that.”
Psychologists who study false confessions
share the same goals, he says, as anyone
else in the criminal justice system. “We are
not looking to prohibit interrogation — to
prevent police from getting the confessions
from criminals. The goal is to get it right.”
Jennifer Perillo
The Forensic
Shockingly, there are times when a confession
even trumps irrefutable scientific physical
evidence. Kassin notes that there are 19 has been
cases on record -— and perhaps many more
— 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
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
been isolated for three days and interrogated. used in
Transcripts of the interrogation show that he In the forensic psychology lab, Distinguished
denied killing his daughter 650 times. He was interrogations
told he failed a lie detector test that he in fact Professor of Psychology Saul Kassin and his
had asked for. Ultimately, he confessed to to see if
committing the murder. The lab results, which
came back several weeks later, showed that
students in the doctoral program in forensic the bluff
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
Sometime after that, the DNA was run through
CODIS, a computer software program that the interrogation process, including why innocent false
operates local, state and national databases
confessions.
of DNA profiles from convicted offenders, people falsely confess, how videotaping police
unsolved crime scene evidence and missing
persons. A match was made to a known sex interrogations affects the criminal justice process,
offender, James Sanders, who was in the
area. Yet Cope was prosecuted and convicted
anyway, as a co-conspirator with Sanders, and how signs of “malintent” can be detected.
even though Sanders had no idea who Cope
was. That was six years ago. Cope remains
imprisoned.
• Kassin recently received a grant to work with the Denver Police
Department where he will be conducting a full random assignment
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.
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.
• Jennifer Perillo, one of Kassin’s doctoral
students, has been experimenting with the
bluff tactic that is used in interrogations to
see if the bluff would prompt false
confessions. Research, consisting of a
number of experiments, was constructed
where participants thought they were taking a
reaction time test. They are warned that the
Alt key on the keyboard has a glitch, which
will result in a computer crash and the loss of
all data. The computer is rigged to go off
repeatedly. Participants are informed that
their keystrokes have been recorded, but it
will be quite some time before a technician
arrives who can decipher who made the
problem keystroke. The experimenter tells the
participants that they could leave if they sign
a statement admitting to hitting the Alt key,
acknowledging data was lost and that the
Brian In this study, hidden eye tracking software is used
Wallace to identify what items people are looking at in a
is interested photograph and how long they look.
in detecting • Brian Wallace, another doctoral student, is
interested in detecting “malintent” — as law
“malintent” — enforcement agents seek to do in airports
and other security settings. He’s looking into
as law an approach that was inspired by crime scene
photographs containing information that may
enforcement have special importance to criminals or
anyone who has knowledge of the crime. In
agents seek this study, hidden eye tracking software is
used to identify what items people are looking
to do in at in a photograph and how long they look.
The premise is that someone who has
airports and committed a crime, or is planning a future
crime, would focus his or her eyes on
other information in a photograph that relates to
that future plan. Wallace says that cognitive
security
The premise is that someone who has committed a
settings. crime, or is planning a future crime, would focus his
or her eyes on information in a photograph that
relates to that future plan.
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session was terminated without credit.
According to Perillo, “we found that bluffing
significantly increased the rate of false
confession. When asked why they signed a
false statement, they told us that they
expected that a check of the keystrokes
would exonerate them.” In another
experiment, a cheating paradigm was used
where the stakes were even higher.
Participants were told that there was a hidden
camera, which would show who was cheating
and who was not, but it would take a while
before a technician arrived to retrieve the
evidence. “There was a strong effect using
the bluff on the innocent participants,” says
Perillo. “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.”
measurers have a great deal of promise as
far as identifying people’s intentions. In the
aftermath of September 11, ascertaining
information about future events for which a
suspect might have knowledge is of growing
importance. He believes that visual attention
to stimuli has potential as an investigatory
tool, as opposed to a screening tool, because
it can help investigators who already have a
suspect and information about a crime. “If an
investigator has some knowledge about a
future crime to be committed, they can
generate stimuli that contain both photos that
are relevant to the future crime and also
objects or things that are not relevant to it.”
Fyfe Fellowship &
Malone Scholarship
Enduring Legacies for Future John Jay Students
By Jennifer Nislow
One of the profound satisfactions of being an “You have to
educator is the ability to help students
achieve their professional and academic understand the
goals. Two new endowed scholarships at
John Jay — and the professors behind them general structure
— will do just that.
For those who work in law enforcement,
of what you’re
practice generally comes before theory. That
is, many who continue their education past
dealing with before
their undergraduate levels do so when they
are already on the job.
you can develop
“When I was in that position, I realized that theory about it.
one understands theory so much better after
having some practice,” said Professor
Candace McCoy, a member of the doctoral
The best PhD
program in criminal justice faculty. “You have
to understand the general structure of what
Distinguished Professor James Fyfe students really,
The Fellowship awards a doctoral candidate
you’re dealing with before you can develop
theory about it. The best PhD students really, $1,500 for one year. in terms of
in terms of ones who have a deep
understanding of their subject, are the ones
“When you start your dissertation, you have ones who
expenses that aren’t otherwise covered,” said
who have some real-world experience.”
McCoy. “Travel, supplies for all those have a deep
surveys, computers, postage, phone, the
That is why the Fyfe Fellowship was whole bit…the incidentals add up.” understanding
set up. It supports students who
have served as sworn officers or law
For a scholarship to be endowed, a minimum
amount must be raised. That principal is
of their
enforcement officials before invested and the fellowship money comes
from the interest. It took five years of friends,
subject,
beginning their doctoral work. The
fellowship was created to honor the
well-wishers and people who wanted to honor
Fyfe’s legacy giving small donations of $25
are the ones
memory of McCoy’s late husband,
and $50 until there was enough money,
according to McCoy.
who have some
Distinguished Professor James Fyfe,
“Every year we were having some real-world
a criminologist and leading authority
Fyfe-related event,” she said. “We had
experience.”
on police accountability and use of conferences about policing, we helped
sponsor a stop-and-frisk conference, we did a
force. Fyfe, who died in 2005, also conference on police accountability,” said
served as an NYPD lieutenant before McCoy. “People would attend these things
entering academia. and remember and give a little.
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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
published by the Urban Institute
“We’re both Press.
people who During the conference, according to McCoy,
President Jeremy Travis let it be known that
realize that the Fyfe Fellowship was only $1,000 short of
its goal.
education is
“Well, a friend of my husband’s pulled out his
the way in checkbook on the spot, wrote out a check
and gave it to Jeremy,” she said.
which So far, there have been four Fyfe Fellows.
individuals “We’ve been lucky enough that the people
who have applied for it from the PhD program
can become here are generally quite advanced and are
getting ready to start their dissertations,”
successful, said McCoy. “It’s just really gratifying.”
not only
change their James and Rubie
lives but Malone Scholarship
Winning a basketball scholarship changed the
change the course of James Malone’s life, just as winning
an academic scholarship changed the life of
lives of their his wife, Rubie. With the James and Rubie
Malone Scholarship, the two former vice
families and presidents of John Jay College would like to
give other students the same opportunities
their they had to reach their potential.
communities,” “We’re both people who realize that education
is the way in which individuals can become
said James successful, not only change their lives but
change the lives of their families and their
Malone. communities,” said James Malone.
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Vice Presidents James and Rubie Malone
James Malone attended the University of
Akron and went on to become director of
John Jay’s SEEK Program, the dean of
students and ultimately, vice president for
administrative affairs. Rubie Malone, who
went to Clark College — now Clark Atlanta
University, then to the Hunter School of
Social Work for a master’s degree and to
Columbia University for a doctorate, retired in
2009 as assistant vice president for strategic
planning.
Their scholarship will provide support for a
first-semester sophomore with a high GPA
and some level of financial need. It will also
ask that the student have a strong
commitment to community service. At this
point in time, James Malone said he could not
be more specific about the requirements.
“We want to provide support for a
first-semester sophomore because
those are the students who need it
the most,” he said. “They got
through their freshman year okay;
they got a lot of counseling that first
year. But they kind of get lost in that
second year.”
While the funds they raise will provide a
stipend for one student, Malone said they
were hopeful that in the future, they would
have enough funding to support a second or
third sophomore.
Jennifer Nislow is a senior writer at John Jay College
of Criminal Justice.
Denise Mieses, center, with McNair students
Asking the Right Questions
Undergraduates Shine As First-Rate Researchers
continued from page 4
Children, homeless youths and orphans are
considered the most vulnerable, according to
Fiorini. These victims are moved from city to
city to elude police and maintain “a fresh
supply” for clients. Brooklyn, she noted, is one
of the biggest ports for trafficked children in
the nation.
Fiorini’s research also looked at how the
Victim Precipitation Theory applied to
trafficking. The criminological theory posits
that victims’ behavior can explain criminal
acts. There is active and passive participation.
On the active side, families may sell a child to
traffickers, or the victim is a runaway. On the
passive side, victims may fall into the hands
of traffickers because they are living in
desperate circumstances, in a war zone, for
example.
All types of people who may encounter a
trafficker and victims should be educated in
how to spot them, she contended. There
should be training, said Fiorini, for pilots and
airline attendants, among others, as well as
information posted on billboards and on
websites.
“Imagine what could be done if there was
follow up,” she said.
Denise Mieses, a senior and Forensic
Psychology major, presented her work on the
coping skills of “transnational mothers” at the
McNair Program’s symposium. McNair
is a national scholarship that prepares
Mieses found that
women who have
academically promising low-income and a strong social
minority undergraduates for doctoral
programs through intensive mentoring,
tutoring and stipends. network both
Mieses, 29, looked at the problems faced by
here in New York
Latina immigrants who leave their own
children behind to work in the United States,
often as nannies. These transnational and back home
mothers, she discovered, faced both physical
and psychological consequences because of tended to cope
the separation. They are haunted by the
traditional notions of what an “optimal” parent
with the
does: provides nurture. “Optimal parenting”
means being the primary caregiver, the “one
who gets up in the middle of the night” to tend separation from
to a sick child, noted Mieses.
“Transnational mothers want to be optimal their children
parents to their own children, but they settle
for being good enough parents, where they
are able to provide just the basic needs —
much better than
food, shelter, clothing,” she said. “When they
are here, they try to transition their love and do those who do
affection for their own children to the ones
they care for.” not have their
Mieses found that women who have a strong
social network both here in New York and support.
back home tended to cope with the
separation from their children much better
than do those who do not have their support.
“They were a lot more resilient in everyday
life,” she said.
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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

black blow fly to determine the time between the death of

a victim and the discovery of the corpse.
Megan Maiello, 22, a Criminal Justice major
and BA/MA student, examined truths and
falsities about bank robberies, a subject that
intrigued her after serving an internship with
the NYPD’s Major Case Squad. What the
Professor John Matteson
public does not realize, she noted, is the
sheer number of bank robberies committed
every year, most without the use of a gun.
According to Maiello’s research, there were
6,849 bank robberies in the United States
in 2008.
For many years, Licklider noted, she had “What I wanted students to
accompanied groups of students to the
museum, or provided them with written do was something we’re
directions on what to look at if they chose to
go on their own. calling ‘slow looking.’
“What I wanted students to do was something Students, when they go to
we’re calling ‘slow looking.’ Students, when
they go to museums," Licklider continued, museums," Licklider
"look quickly and then turn away, like they’re
looking at pictures in a magazine. We think continued, "look quickly and
that by getting students to look slowly at
objects we will increase their attention span then turn away, like they’re
and their willingness to read things slowly, as
well.” looking at pictures in a
Megan Maiello

The revamped “I wanted to see how much more successful
people are if they do it ‘movie style’ as
opposed to the ‘real style,’ used by the
Honors
majority of bank robbers. It’s conclusive that
bank robbers with guns are more successful,
Program...
but most people still don’t use them. They
don’t really use all those other gadgets and
will promote most of the time they are not successful.
I learned that at the NYPD.”
strongly Among Maiello’s key findings were that over
70 percent of bank robberies are non-violent;
the average bank robber is a 30-year-old
the idea of male; and he is most likely to enter the bank
on a Friday between 10 AM and 3 PM.
outstanding
In her research, Maiello said that she
students
considered Routine Activity Theory, a
criminological hypothesis that posits crime is
a mundane, everyday occurrence that
as servants of a depends on the opportunities available to
the would-be offender.
faculty director of the revamped Honors
Program that will promote strongly the idea of
outstanding students as servants of a larger
community, both within John Jay and beyond
John Jay. The notion, he explained, is to
“cultivate, encourage and nourish” the
College’s most talented students. They, in
turn, could share their abilities and
attainments with the larger student body.
“Although some of our ideas remain in
process, we are also very interested in seeing
what we can do to encourage John Jay
students to take an active role in the
New York community beyond John Jay,” said
Matteson.
Having personally instructed five of the
Honors Program students presenting their
work, Matteson said he considers the group
protégés and among the students with whom
he has worked that he is most proud.
Unlike the type of audio-tour that visitors to
museums are familiar with, these podcasts
are specifically aimed at college students in
their sophomore and junior years. The topics
are keyed to essential texts or themes taught
during class and include references to texts,
images and ideas. They also contain what
Licklider refers to as “embedded learning
activities” that ask students to sketch the
object, write a paragraph describing the
atmosphere of a particular room, or imagine
the life of the person who owned such an
object.
“We’re professors and our tendency is to say
everything we know, load it all on to the
students,” said Licklider. “But we have to
resist that and not lecture, rather ask directed
questions, get students to do more of the
work than us.”
While the creation of the podcasts is being
William Pangburn
magazine.
In addition to podcasting, the
College has also been utilizing We think that
Apple’s iTunes U, a program
designed to allow institutions to by getting
distribute their academic content
students to
online.
ITunes U has both a “private side” and a look slowly at
“public side,” explained Pangburn. The private
side allows content providers to restrict objects we will
access to their materials; the public side is
just that — a way for the general public to
have access through the iTunes Store to an
increase their
institution’s lectures, courses and other
information that it has made available.
attention span
Professors can create a course for posting on and their
the iTunes U site by using Blackboard

larger
“Looking at some of the details from the
Routine Activities perspective, it would be
logical for a bank robber to rob a bank on
community, Friday,” she said. “That’s when they happen to
get the most money, usually because banks
both within end up transferring money on Fridays and
many people cash checks from their jobs.
John Jay Also bank robbers may need more money for
the weekend,” Maiello quipped, “so Friday is a
very prime day.”
and beyond
Professor John Matteson, a member of the
John Jay. English department faculty, has been named
“I was deeply impressed by the
sophistication of their research,
the poise with which they
conducted themselves in front
of a large group and I think
those students would serve well
as ambassadors for the
College.”
Jennifer Nislow is a senior writer at John Jay College
of Criminal Justice.
funded through John Jay’s grant, the audio software’s Building Blocks modules or by
using a template provided by iTunes U.
willingness to
tours will be made available to all CUNY
students. Students do not need to have an iPod, but
they do need to have the free iTunes software read things
installed on their computer.
slowly, as well.”
“For a student, they can download it, pop it on their
device, and they can go on the subway,” said Pangburn.
“If they live out in Queens, they have a 45-minute trip.
They can go through the whole lecture.
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 John Jay now has its own very rich public site
on iTunes U with over 100 lectures and
seminars on a variety of criminal justice
issues.
“For a student, they can download it, pop it on
“The goal is their device, and they can go on the subway,”
said Pangburn. “If they live out in Queens, they
to investigate have a 45-minute trip. They can go through
the whole lecture. It’s really fantastic.”
how to use By using the public side, colleges and
universities can give themselves a greater
global presence. Both Stanford University and
digital the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
were among the first to use iTunes U,
content Pangburn noted. John Jay now has its own
very rich public site on iTunes U with over 100
lectures and seminars on a variety of criminal
for the justice issues.
purchased Given the high price of textbooks,
particularly those that include
textbooks reproductions of art for studio
classes, John Jay has also been
because the experimenting with e-readers as a
prices for device for disseminating course
materials.
textbooks “The goal is to investigate how to use digital
content for the purchased textbooks because
have gone up the prices for textbooks have gone up so
much,” said Pangburn. “There are two areas
that are going to work in this vein: the
so much.” Department of Public Management and the
Art and Music Department….That means you
have two different disciplines approaching the
same problem. They will come together after
a year, compare their notes and create a
template that can be offered to the university
as a whole,” he said. “The Center for the
Advancement of Teaching (CAT) is also a part
of this, so it’s a three-way venture.”
Meghan Duffy, CAT’s director, was awarded a
$250,000 Funding for Improvement of
Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant in
October 2009 from the Department of
Education to compare customized Kindle
e-readers with regular textbooks. The
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Meghan Duffy
experiment will involve four classes — two
sections of the same two introductory
classes. One section will have Kindles that
have been uploaded with all of the books for
the course and one will use traditional
materials.
“In addition to figuring out how to create an
innovative way to rent college reading
materials, we’re evaluating students’ reading,”
said Duffy. “What’s happened so far is that the
students say they are reading faster.”
According to Pangburn, ITSS has also
received a grant, albeit a much smaller one
from CUNY of $7,000 to research which
hardware device works best. The department
will analyze the Kindle, the iPad, Nook and the
SONY Reader.
“People learn differently,” he
said. “What we’re going to try to
do is offer the most variety and
hit all of these points to really
boost success. This is all about
helping students to succeed.”
Jennifer Nislow is a senior writer at John Jay College
of Criminal Justice.
Alumni Worth Noting
Salvatore Cassano (BS ’76)
Commissioner of the New York City
Fire Department (FDNY)
Last January one of John Jay’s first fire
science graduates, Salvatore J. Cassano (BS
’76) became the 32nd Commissioner of the
New York City Fire Department (FDNY), the
largest fire and emergency services
department in the world. In his 40 years with
the department, Cassano, a Vietnam veteran
who graduated summa cum laude, has held
every rank in the department. At the time of
his appointment, Mayor Michael Bloomberg
noted, “He has a lifetime of unmatched
experience. His record as a leader in the
department speaks for itself — there have
never been fewer fire deaths during any other
eight-year period in recorded city history.”
Cassano says that being a firefighter “is in
your blood, in your heart. It’s a dangerous job
and it’s not something you do because it pays
a lot of money. That attitude will never get you
into the front door of a burning building.” He
knows from whence he speaks. During his
career, he was cited five times for bravery,
each time for rescuing New Yorkers from
burning buildings.
Although responding to fires and medical
emergencies is the department’s “bread and
butter,” since September 11 when the
department lost 343 members in the terrorist
attacks, Cassano says “we knew we had a
new world of terrorism in which to operate.
The delicate balance was how do we prepare
for a low probability, high consequence event
and still keep our basic skills intact. No one
shied away from the challenge. We added
additional hazmat and rescue training. We
assigned decontamination duties to our
engine companies. We learned that we had to
train many units throughout the city so that we
have resources in reserve in case there is a
secondary event. Our Emergency Medical
Services (EMS) have expanded their role.”
Recently, the department completed training
with the U.S. Marines Chemical Biological
Incident Response Force, who are trained to
work with locals in the event of a major event.
According to Cassano, the marines train
firefighters in decontamination and hazmat
Cassano is
thankful for his
John Jay
education.
“It made me a
well-rounded
person. The
exchanges we had
and the firefighters train the marines in rescue in the classroom
operations. This year, the joint operation
scenario included responding to two were memorable.
Improvised Explosive Devices.
Nine years after September 11, Cassano says We learned from
the department “is better prepared, better
the professors
equipped than ever before” and is quick to
emphasize that it was a herculean effort on
the part of everyone in the department and they learned
regardless of rank.
from us. It was an
These days, Cassano believes the big issue
facing fire and emergency services around the
experience I will
country is declining budgets and increased
threats. As he points out, “fires are dangerous
no matter where you are. And the issue
treasure.”
remains, how do you keep your skills up for
fighting fires and responding to emergencies
while at the same time being prepared to deal
Cassano is
with a terrorist attack, a hurricane, a tornado,
an earthquake, avalanches or wildfires.”
Equipment is always an issue. “You want to
the 32nd
have the best equipment and protection for
your firefighters.” The department is putting
Commissioner of
new gloves into the field. “Our gloves, while
the New York City
they protected you from the heat, were so
thick that you couldn’t close your hands. So, Fire Department
we developed a more flexible glove, but it
took a year to do so. Around the country, the (FDNY), the
issues are the same. How do you get the best
gear and how do you pay for it?” largest fire and
Cassano is thankful for his John Jay
education. “It made me a well-rounded person. emergency services
The exchanges we had in the classroom were
memorable. We learned from the professors department in the
and they learned from us. It was an
experience I will treasure.”
world.
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Alumni Class Notes
Natalie S. Alcee, BS ’97, has been on active duty in the U.S. Army
stationed at Ft. Riley, KS with 101st Brigade Support Battalion since June
2009. She is on a five-year leave from Greenberg Traurig, LLP where she
works as a paralegal/administrative assistant.
Joseph A. Alejandro, BS ‘98, is the treasurer of the Patrolmen’s
Benevolent Association.
Jamilah N. Alexander, MPA ’09, was promoted to deputy director of the
Women’s Prison Association.
William Anthony Allen, MPA ’06, is a PhD candidate in urban systems at
Rutgers University. In addition to his John Jay MPA, he holds a MS in urban
affairs from Hunter College. He recently served as President/CEO of
Communities in Schools of New Jersey. An adjunct professor in public
administration at John Jay College and in criminal justice at Monroe College,
he also serves as the Democratic District Leader of the 70th Assembly
District in Harlem.
Manivanh Bounthisanh, BA ’06, is a correction officer at the Ross
Correctional Institution in Ohio.
Rodney C. Boyce, BS 98, is a police officer with the New York City Police
Department. In June 2010, he completed 15 years of service.
Bridget E. (Rivera) Bravo, BA ’00, received a MPA from NOVA
Southeastern University.
Alet A. Brown, BA ’09, who is attending St. John’s University School of
Law, is the 2010 recipient of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section
Minority Fellowship from the New York Bar Association.
Chase M. Buckman, MPA ’09, was hired as a staff analyst for the NYC
Department of Transportation - Sidewalk Management Unit.
Lymari Casta, MA ’00, recently started a law practice in New York City,
which specializes in immigration law, particularly deportation matters in all
50 states and Puerto Rico.
Larry Cunningham, BS ’97, vice president of the John Jay Alumni
Association, was appointed assistant dean for students at St. John’s
University School of Law.
Terryann K. Ferguson, BA ’08, is a police officer in the Charleston Police
Department in South Carolina. PPO of the year for 2009, she notes that
she is “enjoying the life of criminal justice. John Jay was my best choice
when it came to higher education.”
Christine Fonseca, BS ’06, is a community development specialist for the
Alcoholism Council of New York.
Deanna Gallavan, BA ’07, is currently pursuing a PhD in counseling
psychology at the University of Oklahoma and conducting research on
burnout and compassion fatigue among correctional psychologists and
counselors.
Juan C. Gonzalez, BA ’02, is a 2006 graduate of the University of
Connecticut School of Law and former law clerk at the New York State
Court of Appeals in Albany, NY. He is currently practicing appellate law at
Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin & Spratt, LLP in New York City.
George F. Kurtyka, MA ’90, recently retired from the Derby, CT Police
Department with over 30 years of service, the last 20 in the Detective
Division. He was also the homeland security coordinator for the City of
Derby, CT.
Giovanni K. LaDuke, BA ’04, is a LMSW CASAC intake coordinator at the
Realization Center.
Donald J. LaSala, MA ’09, retired as a police officer in 2009. Since then
he has taught as an adjunct at several colleges in northwest New Jersey
and northeast Pennsylvania. Recently, he obtained a full-time position as
the chair of the School of Criminal Justice at ITT-Tech in Dunmore, PA. He is
currently writing an introduction to forensic psychology textbook geared
towards undergraduates.
Julie Layschok, BS ‘05, who majored in forensic science, recently
received a PhD in sciences from Oregon State University.
Delana K Mendes, BS ’08, who is living in Atlanta, GA was recently
promoted from target protection specialist to an assets protection leader.
She is responsible for theft and fraud investigation as well as the
improvement of operational shortage. “My criminal justice background at
John Jay is admired and I am always proud to speak of it,” she says.
Alumni Class Notes
Jason Quinones, BS ‘10, who majored in forensic science with a
concentration in toxicology, was recently accepted into the PhD program at
SUNY Stony Brook.
Irma Ramos, BA ’03, became the confidential secretary to the supervising
judge of the Bronx County Family Court within one year of employment with
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
be an employee of our court system and an alumna of the College.”
Katherine Reynoso, BS ‘10, who majored in forensic science with a
concentration in molecular biology, was recently accepted into the PhD
program at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Heather C. Roberts, MA ’05, worked for more than three years as a
substance abuse therapist for teens coming back from incarceration.
She currently serves as a sworn officer for the United States Capitol Police.
Dianne K Rosete, BA ’09, recently started working as a fraud investigator,
her “dream job,” for the Human Resources Administration/Investigation,
Revenue and Enforcement Administration.
Notice of Special Meeting of the
John Jay College Alumni Association on December 1, 2010.
The Alumni Board of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Alumni Association
will convene a special meeting on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 6:00 PM,
to vote on ratification of the Constitution and Bylaws of the Alumni Association.
All alumni who received graduate or undergraduate degrees from John Jay College on or before
September 1, 2010 are invited to attend and vote at this meeting.
Janet Arons Schultze, BS ’78, has a new position as an employment
specialist for Mental Health Systems, Inc. in San Diego, CA.
Danielle Scimeca, BS ‘10, who majored in forensic science with a
concentration in toxicology, was recently accepted into the MD/PhD
program at the University of Miami.
Ronald Spadafora, BS ’86, was recently promoted to assistant chief of
the New York City Fire Department.
Sukeena Stephens, MPA ’03, was promoted to assistant to the
special-agent-in-charge with the Federal Air Marshal Service. She also
serves as manager of the interagency Man Portable Air Defense System
(MANPADS) Working Group. She is currently pursing a doctorate degree in
public policy and administration with a concentration in homeland security.
Benjamin B. Tucker, BS ’77, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June
22, 2010 to become the Deputy Director of State, Local and Tribal Affairs
for the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Beatrice Wilkinson Welters, MA ’78, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate
to become the U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. She was sworn in
on April 27, 2010.

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.

Joel W. Moss, MA ’75, recently retired after serving in various

Owen O. Daniels, BA ’85, who majored in public administration, went on to
receive a master’s degree from Webster University. Currently the owner of
two start-up businesses, The Small Business Zone, Inc. and Yur Games,
Inc., he recently authored The Entrepreneur Guide.
Michael A. DiBrizzi, BS ’88, retired from the New York City Police
Department as a detective in 2008 after 20 years of service. He obtained a
law degree from Seton Hall Law School.
Joseph O. DiGiambattista, BA ’97, is an investigator with the New York
State Department of Motor Vehicles Auto Theft Unit in West Babylon, NY.
Alicia Dunkley, MPA ’03, is a supervisory intelligence analyst with the FBI.
Greg V. Esposito, BS ’06, is a 2010 graduate of Touro Law School and is
now employed at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office.
Luis J. Estevez, BA ’04, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the New
York City Police Department and recently completed a MPA at Marist
College.
At the time this notice is being prepared, the Alumni Board expects the agenda to include the following topic:
management positions with JM Family Enterprises, Inc. in Florida. Prior to
1984, he served as a U.S. probation and parole officer in several judicial
Ratification of Constitution and Bylaws of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Alumni Association.
districts.
The approved Constitution and Bylaws are available for review at
Irene O’Donnell, BA ’87, director of campus office services and records
management at John Jay College, was named as one of the most influential http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/alumni/alumniassociationbylaws-prelimtofoundation.pdf
women of 2010 by the Irish Voice.
To assist in planning, please confirm your attendance by Monday, November 29, 2010
Richard P. O'Sullivan, BA ’07, is retired, but worked with the U.S. Census
Bureau giving examinations to prospective clients. He says, “I now by e-mail (alumni@jjay.cuny.edu ) or by telephone ( 212.237.8547). Please include your name, degree, year,
remember my algebra exams at the College and still wonder how I made it e-mail and a daytime phone, in your response.
to the point of receiving my degree at 65 years of age. Go John Jay!"
We appreciate your interest and look forward to seeing you on December 1, 2010.
Michael D. Pal, BS ’94, was promoted to general superintendent at MTA
New York City Transit. Respectfully,
Edwin M. Quezada, BA ’08, says “my ardent dedication towards helping
the community will continue to grow. I can truly say that my education at The John Jay College of Criminal Justice Alumni Board
John Jay College has formed me into a great and strong individual.”

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