Education
PhD City University of New York, (Criminal Justice, Policy, Oversight and Administration), 2017
Dissertation: The Financial Crisis and White Collar Crime: An Examination of Brokerage-Failure and its Link to Ponzi Schemes
MPA Department of Public Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, 2011
In progress: Master of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Graduate Center-City University of New York
BA Metropolitan State College, Colorado, 1990
Bio
Marie Springer holds a PhD. In Criminal Justice, Policy Oversight and Administration from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Springer currently teaches in the graduate program in Public Management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her book: The Politics of Ponzi Schemes: History, Theory and Policy, is the culmination of nine years of research on federal level Ponzi schemes since 1960. She specializes in affinity fraud, financial markets frauds, elder fraud and other white-collar financial markets crimes research. Her research continues to build data sets on federal level financial markets crimes. This research has necessitated advanced skills in statistics to analyze the many data sets. This research includes monitoring financial crimes in relationship to economic events and in how the laws and legislation affects financial markets crimes.
JJC Affiliations
Professional Memberships
American Society of Criminology
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Pi Alpha Alpha National Honor Society for Public Affairs and Administration
Blue Goose Alliance
Course Taught
Current Graduate and Undergraduate courses:
ECO-SOC 360 White-collar crime
PAD 701 Fraud, Waste, Abuse and Corruption
PAD 712 Management Systems and Techniques
Previous courses:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Department of Public Administration
Oversight, Independent, Regulatory and Political Authorities
Management Systems and Techniques
Public Sector Inspection and Oversight
Research Methods
Capstone Senior Seminar in Public Administration (G
Introduction to Public Administration
Human Resources Management
Human Resources and Administrative Effectiveness
Fraud, Waste, Abuse and Corruption
Ethics in Public Administration
Organization Theory and Management in Public Administration
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Department of Economics
Finance for Forensic Economics
White-Collar Crime
Scholarly Work
Peer Reviewed Books
The Politics of Ponzi Schemes: History, Theory and Policy, Taylor Francis Routledge Press
Conference proceedings
2016 Ponzi schemes and Ponzi perpetrators
November, 2016, Northeast Business & Economic Association
2012 The Securities Exchange Commission and Ponzi schemes: An administrative view
October, 2012 Northeast Business & Economic Association
Honors and Awards
2019-2020 Nesta M. Gallas Award Excellence in Adjunct Teaching, Department of Public Administration John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY
2010 New Jersey Women in Wildlife Conservation Award
2009 National Volunteer of the Year, National Wildlife Refuges
2008 Environmental Protection Agency Quality Award
Research Summary
Book Manuscripts in Preparation
The Politics of Ponzi Schemes: History, Theory and Policy
Elder Fraud in Financial Markets
Journal Articles in Preparation
- SEC performance; A longitudinal study of Ponzi scheme investigations
- Affinity fraud and the social dynamic of trust
- Ponzi finance: Government programs
