Childhood sexual abuse does not pose a uniquely heightened risk for future arrests for sex crimes, according to “A Prospective Examination of Whether Childhood Sexual Abuse Predicts Subsequent Sexual...

Twelve high-achieving science students from John Jay made their presence felt at the 14th Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in November, where they showed off the...

Martin Horn, a Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, had his article "Fixing Riker’s Island" published in The Marshall Project – a...

David Kennedy, Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control, was interviewed on WNYC's “Here's the Thing” by host Alec Baldwin about the development of...

Third Intern affiliated with the White House in Five Years! Recent alumna Taniya Dewan has been accepted to the Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President Internship Program. She...

New York, NY, January 21, 2015 – Jeremy Travis, President of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, today announced that Jennifer Gonnerman of The New Yorker magazine, and an investigative...

Mass Shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School Prompted John Jay Outreach In the aftermath of the December 2012 school shootings that claimed the lives of 26 students and teachers in Newtown, Conn.,...

An Op-ed piece titled “Protests Shine Light on Deeper Issues with Modern Justice” was published in the Boston Globe online on December 17, 2014, and in the print edition on Sunday. The article...

President Jeremy Travis and Leonel Fernandez, former president of the Dominican Republic, signed a Memorandum of Understanding between John Jay College and IGLOBAL/Instituto Global de Altos Estudios...

Fighting the scourge of cancer does not come easily, or quickly. Just ask Associate Professor Elise Champeil of the Department of Sciences, who was recently awarded a $463,861 grant from the National...