University at Albany


Julie Horney Julie Horney
Dean of the School of Criminal Justice

Office:      Draper 219A
Phone: (518)  442-5214
Email: jhorney@albany.edu

 

School of Criminal Justice Names New Dean

Julie Horney, the new dean of the School of Criminal Justice, has joined the University at Albany from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her appointment took effect June 1, 2002.

Horney earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of California, San Diego, and completed her undergraduate work in psychology with honors at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her current research interest is in the situational determinants of violence.

“We are absolutely delighted with Dr. Julie Horney’s appointment as dean of criminal justice,” said Provost Carlos Santiago. “Her professional reputation, experience, and skills all contribute to the quality of the University’s distinguished criminal justice program, already a recognized leader in the profession nationally and internationally. She is also a wonderful addition to the Council of Deans.”

A professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha since 1991, Horney was most recently a visiting fellow at Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology and Clare Hall. From 1998 to 2001, she was director of the Situational Dynamics Research Program Area of the National Consortium on Violence Research. From 1981 to 1991 she was an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska. Horney was on leave from that position from 1982 to 1983 while participating in the Supreme Court Fellows Program.

The new dean has taught extensively at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Horney was deputy editor of Justice Quarterly from 1999–2001, and is currently a member of the editorial boards of Criminology, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Women and Criminal Justice. She was among the editors of the book Criminal Justice 2000, Volume III: Policies, Processes and Decisions of the Criminal Justice System (2000, Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice); and, with Cassia Spohn, wrote Rape Law Reform: A Grassroots Revolution and its Impact, (1992, New York: Plenum).

Horney has written peer-reviewed articles on a wide range of topics, including rape law reform, plea bargaining, life circumstances and criminal behavior, weapons effects in the escalation of violence, and risk perceptions among serious offenders. She fills the position left vacant by the resignation of Dennis Rosenbaum. James Acker has served as interim dean.