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Please find below stories from the first half of April.
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MULTIMEDIA
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Professor
of Forensic Science Marta Concheiro-Guisan spoke about drug testing on
hair in Europe as opposed to using blood and urine in the United States
(at 1:51 and 2:16 marks).
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Transportation
Professor Jim Cohen spoke about high speed-rail transportation’s growth
in California to NPR’s Marketplace (at 3:35 mark).
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A
city-funded study by John Jay suggests that curbing gun violence through
relationship building and conflict resolution works (at 2:07 mark).
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Lucy
Lang, Executive Director, Institute For Innovation In Prosecution at John
Jay College of Criminal Justice, takes a look at courtroom scenes from a
variety of television shows and movies and breaks down how accurate they
really are.
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PRINT/ONLINE
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PoliticoNY
covered the release of John Jay’s Prisoner Reentry Institute report which
mapped current prison education programs in New York State and makes
suggestions for statewide improvements.
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Assistant
Professor of Economics Michelle Holder spoke about the double gap in pay
between black, Native American, Latina women and white men with the same
levels of education and work experience.
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Associate
Professor of Sociology Jamie Longazel wrote an op-ed about a school
police officer assaulting a Latino student and the anti-immigrant
sentiment rising in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
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Associate
Professor of Public Policy Heath Brown wrote an Op-Ed to “The Hill” wrote
about the importance of staffing decisions in executive branch of
government.
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Lucy
Lang, the Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation in
Prosecution, spoke about the promising results from New Jersey’s historic
move away from cash bail.
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Wall Street Journal •
04/5/2019
Prof.
Joshua D. Freilich helps track far-right extremism going back almost 30
years for the Wall Street Journal.
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Professor
of English Jonathan Gray spoke about the tonal missteps Warner Bros
invoked in the DC Universe movies.
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Professor
of English Jonathan Gray spoke about the tonal missteps Warner Bros
invoked in the DC Universe movies.
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Los Angeles Times •
04/5/2019
Professor
Eugene O’Donnell, a use-of-force expert at John Jay, spoke about the
unlikelihood of convicting on-duty police officers for shootings.
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The Asbury Park Press •
04/6/2019
Criminal
Justice Professor Joe Giacalone spoke about how investigators determine
pre-meditation in parental infanticide cases and safe haven laws in light
of the Neptune parents charged with the murder of their infant son.
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Los Angeles Times / Pro
Publica • 04/8/2019
Professor
of Criminal Justice Dennis Jay Kenney spoke about the formula used by law
enforcement agencies to engage in a high-speed pursuit given the narrower
pursuit guidelines.
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Forensic
Science Professor Mechthild Prinz speaks about the demand for touch DNA
testing.
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Time Magazine •
04/9/2019
Associate
Professor of Public Policy Heath Brown, the author of “Immigrants and
Electoral Politics” spoke about President Trump’s inability to get
Congress to be tougher on immigration.
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Free Press of Jacksonville
• 04/9/2019
John
Jay College of Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center’s report
showed that of high-risk youth living at home, supported by an intensive
community-based program nationwide remaining, 86 percent remained
arrest-free.
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Lucy
Lang, Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution,
co-wrote this opinion piece reflecting that despite a wealth of evidence
showing public safety can be improved by connecting people to needed
social and health services, the internal metrics of prosecutors’ offices
do little to incentivize this course of action.
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The Kansas City Star (Premium)
• 04/10/2019
Professor
of Criminal Justice and Director of the National Network for Safe
Communities David Kennedy spoke about the high number of open arrest
warrants in jurisdictions nationwide.
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The Minnesota Daily •
04/10/2019
Psychology
Professor Elizabeth Jeglic, an expert on sexual assault prevention, spoke
about how combined advocacy has more power when working to change an
issue such as sexual assault.
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Futurity.org •
04/11/2019
Professor
and President of the Center for Policing Equity Phillip Atiba Goff
coauthored the study “The criminogenic and psychological effects of
police stops on adolescent black and Latino boys,” which found that
police stops actually increase teen criminal behavior.
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The Guardian (eClips Web)
• 04/11/2019
Jodie
Roure, an Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at John Jay,
speaks to the Guardian about femicide and the data on those crimes.
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Press Release Point •
04/11/2019
Professor
of Computer Science Shweta Jain spoke about eWitness, an authentication
tool to help crime investigators and journalists/editors prove the
authenticity and origin of digital photos and videos at NYC Media Lab's
Combine program Demo Day.
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The Washington Times •
04/11/2019
Psychology
Professor Michele Galieitta comments on Pope Benedict’s essay connecting
the 1960’s Sexual Revolution to sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
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The Philadelphia Tribune
• 04/13/2019
Adjunct
Professor of African History Milton Alimadi criticized the media’s
characterization of African people.
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