John Jay College - The Center for Modern Forensic Practice

Maureen O’Connor - psycholegal focus on women and the workplace, especially sexual harassment issues; introduction of scientific information into legal proceedings; mental health law issues.

Margaret Bull Kovera (Professor) Ph.D. (Minnesota) whose research activities encompass jury behavior; scientific evidence; litigation consulting; sexual harassment; legal decision making; eyewitness identification. Dr. Kovera’s research has had continuous funding from NSF for almost a decade, Prior to coming to CUNY, Dr. Kovera was the Director of the Legal Psychology Ph.D. program (a program similar to the Experimental Forensic Psychology track) at Florida International University . Dr. Kovera is currently a member of the executive committee of the American Psychology-Law Society and will soon become an action editor of Law and Human Behavior, the leading experimental psychology and law journal and in the top 20 of 200+ law reviews in citation impact.

Steven Penrod (Distinguished Professor), J.D. (Harvard), Ph.D. (Harvard), past-President of the American Psychology-Law Society, editor (2007- ) of Psychology, Public Policy and Law and past-editor of Psychology, Crime and Law, the official journal of the European Association of Psychology and Law is a researcher with 25 years of nearly continuous research support from the Law and Social Sciences Division of NSF. Dr. Penrod was formerly professor of psychology at Wisconsin , professor of law at Minnesota and directed the J.D./Ph.D. program at Nebraska before coming to John Jay. His Ph.D. students and post-docs can be found on the faculties of universities such as UC-Santa Barbara, Barnard, Syracuse , and UNC-Charlotte, at competing forensic psychology programs such as Florida International, Nebraska , and the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and in non-academic positions such as the Federal Judicial Center . Dr. Penrod's current research is supported by NSF and addresses eyewitness reliability issues.

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

Michele Galietta - PTSD, Jury perceptions of insanity defenses, stalking, child sex abuse

Thomas Kucharski - Clinical dangerousness assessments

Louis Schlesinger - Criminal behavior and criminal psychopathology, homicide, sexual homicide and sexually motivated antisocial acts

Roslyn Caldwell - Racial/ethnic/cultural factors related to criminal competencies, the development of culturally relevant mental health treatment programs for juvenile and adult offenders; mental health treatment efficacy; and the exploration of risk and protective factors related to juvenile violence and delinquency (with an emphasis on African American, Chicano/Latino/Mexicano, and female offenders).

Gwendolyn Gerber - Gender issues and gender stereotypes; gender and policing.

William Gotdeiner - Research interests include self and affect regulation, judgment and decision making, substance use disorders, schizophrenia, trauma and victimization, psychotherapy efficacy, psychoanalysis, social-cognition, and meta-analysis.

Jennifer Groscup - Legal decision making; jury and judicial behavior; expert testimony; scientific evidence

Matthew Johnson - Miranda rights waiver assessment, parental rights termination assessment, family court consultation, African-American family life, psychology and film.

Tom Litwack - Mental health law and assessments of dangerousness.

Chitra Raghavan - Etiology, treatment, and prevention of domestic violence. Other research interests in emotional processes and culture.

Gabrielle Salvati - Research expertise in homicide and violent sexual crimes, in particular with reference to offender profiling, classifications of violent crime and cross-cultural comparisons. Other research interests include multidimensional research methodologies and applied research methods.

Daniel Yasilove - Addiction studies.

Angela Crossman - Children's memory, suggestibility, testimony, and credibility; deception and false beliefs.

Elizabeth Jeglic - the treatment of sex offenders, depression and suicide and issues related to death and dying.

Keith Markus - Substantive interpretations of quantitative models, test validity and psychometrics, structural equation modeling, causal inference, discourse processes and organizational culture, statistical inference, and research methods.

Cynthia Mercado - Sexual offenders, Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) legislation, Risk Assessment, and Legal Decision making.

Nancy Ryba - Forensic assessment; Criminal competencies; Juvenile competency to stand trial; Standards of practice in forensic psychology.

< Go Back