School of Criminal Justice Ranked #2 in the Nation
UAlbany’s School of Criminal Justice was ranked No. 2 in the nation in the most recent U.S. News & World Report rankings of criminology graduate programs.
Dean William Alex Pridemore, PhD '00 Named AAAS Fellow
William Alex Pridemore, dean of the University at Albany’s School of Criminal Justice, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
How a Traveling Salesman in the 1970s Became a Leading Opponent to the Death Penalty
A podcast with Distinguished Teaching Professor James Acker and Brian Keough, head of the University's M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives -- Acker and Keough, among the founders of the University’s National Death Penalty Archive (NDPA), speak about the digitization efforts of a collection by M. Watt Espy, a researcher who spent three decades of his life gathering and indexing documentation of legal executions for what would become the nation’s largest database on capital punishment.
Gangster Movies and Their Muses
A podcast with Frankie Bailey, professor and crime novelist. Bailey is working on a reference book that maps the cultural and historical significance of nine of the most renowned gangster movies (including The Godfather [1972], White Heat [1949], Scarface [1990], American Gangster [2007] and Goodfellas [1990], among others) as well as the television series The Sopranos. The book explores the impact of the Motion Picture Production Code or the "Hays Code" of the 1930s, the emergence of the "G-Man" as a protagonist, and the role of fashion in the genre.
Five SCJ Researchers Published in Criminology & Public Policy
Five UAlbany researchers are featured in a special issue of Criminology & Public Policy. The issue focuses on the broad spectrum of decision making within the field of criminal justice — by offenders, within the court system, and by police units. The articles grew out of a School of Criminal Justice decision-making symposium focused on recent advances in behavioral economics.
‘University at Albany Week’ Airs on WAMC's Academic Minute
UAlbany Faculty Members Receive National Spotlight on the NPR-Affiliated Station
The Price Paid
Author, activist and former inmate Susan Burton will talk about her life and work Friday evening as part of the keynote event at the School of Criminal Justice’s (SCJ) symposium "Incarcerating Girls and Women: Past and Present." Her discussion will follow a 7 p.m. screening of Incarceration Nation at Page Hall, 135 Western Ave., on the Downtown Campus.
Looking to Evidence to Reduce Gang Violence
David Hureau, assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice, presented his research last month at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Hureau is an assistant professor in the School of Criminal Justice.
The problem of gang violence isn’t going away any time soon, but researchers in the University at Albany’s School of Criminal Justice are working to better understand it.