The Department of PsychologyJohn Jay College of Criminal Justice

Full-Time Faculty

Maureen Allwood
Jose M. Arcaya
Philip P. Bonifacio
Roselyn M. Caldwell
Joshua Clegg
Shuki Cohen
Angela Crossman
Jennifer E. Dysart
Miriam Ehrensaft
Diana M. Falkenbach
Mark Fondacaro
Michele Galietta
Gwendolyn L. Gerber
Demis E. Glasford
William H. Gottdiener
Jennifer L. Groscup
Jill Grose-Fifer
Maria Hartwig
Elizabeth Jeglic
Matthew B. Johnson
Daniel P. Juda
Saul Kassin
Stuart M. Kirschner
Margaret Bull Kovera
Longin T. Kucharski
Sondra Leftoff
Michael R. Leippe
James M. Levin
Thomas R. Litwack
Keith A. Markus
Cynthia Calkins Mercado
Maureen O'Connor
Steven D. Penrod
Chitra Raghavan
Nancy L. Ryba
C. Gabrielle Salfati
Louis Schlesinger
Barbara Stanley
Cathy S. Widom
James S. Wulach
Daniel L. Yalisove
Philip T. Yanos
Patricia Zapf

Full-Time Substitutes

Donna Eisenstadt
Sarah DeGue
Gregory I. Mack
Carla Marquez
Elvin Montgomery
Elwin N. Vorus

 
Cynthia Calkins Mercado
Assistant Professor
212.484.1111
2112N
2003 Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2002 M.L.S., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Law College
1997 M.A., University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dr. Cynthia Calkins Mercado is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, NY. She received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a Masters of Legal Studies (MLS) from the University of Nebraska's Law-Psychology program. She completed an APA accredited predoctoral internship at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute in Tampa, FL, while there having collaborated with members of the Department of Mental Health, Law, and Policy. After completing her doctoral work, she took a postdoctoral position in Melbourne, Australia where she taught courses in forensic psychology at Monash University while continuing her research in the area of sexual offending. While there she was also involved in the assessment and treatment of sexual and general offender populations at Forensicare, the Victorian State Forensic Mental Health Service.

Her most recent work focuses broadly on sex offenders, risk assessment, and the law. She is currently involved in research that examines sex offender treatment, civil commitment, and risk of recidivism in New Jersey. She is also collecting empirical and geo-spatial data that examines the overall impact and utility of sex offender residency restrictions and community notification statutes.

Dr. Mercado is also involved with a team of researchers at John Jay who are investigating the causes and contexts of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. She is currently working to develop the clinical segment of this project, which will involve careful investigation of the psychological characteristics of clergy offenders.

Dr. Mercado was recently invited to give a talk on Avances en Psicología Forense at la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Cali, Colombia. She has done volunteer work in Bolivia and remains interested in collaborative research opportunities with Latin American scholars.
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Research
Course Search
Maureen O'Connor, Chairperson
445 W. 59th St. Room 2421N, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212.237.8776 Email: moconnor@jjay.cuny.edu

DHTML Menu JavaScript Menu Powered by Milonic