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Dr. Peter R. De Forest is Professor of Criminalistics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York where he has taught for 37 years. Prior to joining the faculty and helping to found the Forensic Science BS, MS, and Ph.D. Programs at John Jay and the City University of New York, he worked in several laboratories. He began his career in forensic science at the Ventura County Sheriff’s Crime Laboratory,
Ventura
,
California
in 1960. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree (1964) in Criminalistics and a Doctor of Criminology Degree in Criminalistics (1969) from the
University
of
California
at
Berkeley
, under Dr. Paul L. Kirk. In addition to his university teaching and research activities, he also serves as a scientific consultant and expert witness for police departments, prosecutor’s offices, municipal law departments, public defender agencies, and private attorneys in criminal and civil casework in the US and Canada. The consultation has included advisory panel membership on major case investigations in the
UK
. He is the author or co-author of several book chapters, a textbook, and numerous articles in scientific journals. In addition to membership in several scientific societies, he served as a member of the editorial boards of journals including the Journal of Forensic Sciences. For over ten years, dating from the inception of the American Board of Criminalistics (ABC), Professor De Forest served as the chairman of ABC Examination Committee, which was responsible for designing and administering certification examinations in a range of forensic science specialties. He has presented lectures and workshops for several professional societies and in other universities and has served as Visiting Professor at the
University
of
Strathclyde
,
Glasgow
,
Scotland
. During the fall 1997 semester he served as Exchange Professor with the National Crime Faculty at the
Police
Staff
College
,
Bramshill
,
England
and also delivered the Founders Lecture for the California Association of Criminalists. Dr. De Forest is a past commissioner with the Forensic Science Program Accreditation Commission (FEPAC) of the
American
Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) and is Criminalistics Section Chairman of the AAFS for 2006-2007. Awards received include the Paul L. Kirk Award (1999) of the Criminalistics Section of the AAFS.
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Saul Kassin (Distinguished Professor) received his Ph.D. in personality and social psychology at the
University
of
Connecticut
. In 1984, he was awarded a U. S. Supreme Court Judicial Fellowship, and spent the year at the
Federal
Judicial
Center
. In 1985 he was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor in the Psychology and Law Program at
Stanford
University
. Dr. Kassin has conducted research on police interviewing, interrogation, and the elicitation of confessions, and on the psychology of eyewitness identifications and testimony. He has also studied the impact of these and other types of evidence on jurors and jury decision-making. Dr. Kassin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He has served on the editorial board of Law and Human Behavior since 1986. He lectures frequently to judges, lawyers, psychologists, and law enforcement groups. He has worked as an analyst for various news media and as a consultant and expert witness in federal, military, and state courts. He has also co-authored or edited a number of scholarly books, including: Confessions in the Courtroom, The Psychology of Evidence and Trial Procedure, The American Jury on Trial: Psychological Perspectives, and Developmental Social Psychology
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Center Wins Grant for Ground-Breaking Arson Screening Program
The Center has won a grant of $248,000 from the JEHT Foundation for an innovative Arson Screening Project, designed to assess the damage done by generations of “bad science” arson convictions. The Arson Screening Project will be the first program to address systematically the roles played by improved science in revealing mistaken convictions in a non-DNA context.
The 63rd Annual Short Course for Prosecuting Attorneys, and the 51st Annual Short Course for Defense Attorneys.
The Center will continue its association with Northwestern University School of Law’s renowned Short Courses by organizing the forensics content with presentations by Center affiliates Peter R. De Forest, Peter Diaczuk, James Doyle, Angela Crossman and John Lentini.
Dr. Peter R. De Forest , having retired from the Department of Science at John Jay after 37 years, has joined the Center as Chief Science Fellow.
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