John Jay College of Criminal Justice

City Needs More Than a Gang Task-force to Resolve Street-Crew Violence, Professor Says

Yesterday's announcement that the NYPD will double its gang task-force to combat violence among young teens in rival street crews will likely help reduce some violence but it does little to address its root causes."Operation Crew Cut" will dedicate some of its resources to combating the growing tren ... More >>

Free Food: One of the Greatest NYC Mulberry Harvests in Years Happening Now

Look hard enough, and you'll find rarer white mulberry trees. The five boroughs of New York are quite literally lined with mulberry trees, whose purple berries - something like blackberries in appearance - stain the city's sidewalks and streets every year around this season. But New Yorkers are ge ... More >>

Immigrant Groups, Alongside Bill de Blasio, Push Dream Act with Fellowship

​When Yelky Ramos, a 20-year-old undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic, was filling out college applications, her counselor told her that she would have a rough time getting the scholarships she needed. "My counselor said, 'There's a lot of great opportunities out there, but unfortu ... More >>

To the Barricades, Variously

A new wave of student activism hits New York City

Eterno and Silverman, Criminologists, Say NYPD's Crime Stat Manipulation A Factor In Recent Corruption Scandals

Criminologists Eli Silverman, of John Jay College, and John Eterno, of Molloy College, offer one of their periodic opinion pieces about the NYPD. This one is about the intersection between the recent police corruption scandals and what they call the "distorted use of and lack of transparency of Comp ... More >>

Lost Boys

New research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker—and sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide

Parading While Black

After the arrest of a City Councilman, isn't it time to question the NYPD's crooked math?

9|11: The Winners

For some people, the terrorist attacks have been a gold mine

Online Education's Net Worth

E-Learning is starting to take off at NYC universities, but are all the bugs worked out?

Taliban Confirms Bin Laden's Death; CUNY Board Reconsidering Kushner Decision

​The Taliban has joined al Qaeda in admitting that Osama Bin Laden is in fact dead. Bin Laden "embraced martyrdom as per the Will of the Almighty Allah during an abrupt attack by the American invading soldiers," as per their statement. In other Bin Laden-related news, the U.S. has demanded to know ... More >>

Tony Kushner Finds Protesters at His New Play Opening Last Night

​It's been quite a week for Tony Kushner, starting with an invitation to receive an honorary degree from John Jay College being revoked, and ending with his new play opening last night at the Public Theater -- and Kushner meeting the protesters who were there on his behalf. John Jay had plann ... More >>

NYPD Ticket Fixing Scandal: Criminologists Link Practice to Downgrading Crimes

​Two criminologists are drawing a connection between the NYPD's looming ticket fixing scandal and "fixing" complaint reports to manipulate crime statistics. In an article provided to the Voice, Professors John Eterno and Eli Silverman argue that the latter is just as common as the former, be ... More >>

Class Action Listings

The Rise of Clickers Is Starting to Change How College Professors Run their Classrooms

New NYPD Stats Raise More Questions About Downgrading of Crimes

​Last week, under public criticism, the NYPD released long-hidden statistics on lesser crimes, re-igniting questions about the extent of downgrading of major felonies, a practice we detailed in our NYPD Tapes series. That stonewalling led some observers to charge that felony complaints were b ... More >>

NYPD Tapes Scandal A "Giant Oil Spill" Ray Kelly Can't Contain, Criminologists Say

​Two criminal justice professors weighed in today with their take on the NYPD's decision to appoint a deputy inspector to reinvestigate the Adrian Schoolcraft allegations. John Eterno and Eli Silverman, who are writing a book about the PD's Compstat system, say Commissioner Ray Kelly just is ... More >>

Voice's NYPD Tapes to Get a Hearing by FBI Officials

By Michael Cohen ​FBI officials will hear excerpts from the recordings of police bosses' harangues at street cops to manipulate crime stats, revealed in the Voice's NYPD Tapes series, when two criminologists present their research at a crime data conference at John Jay College later today. P ... More >>

Norman Mailer Wins A Pulitzer, But Gets No Respect From the Press

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 8, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 30 (New logo!) Mailer Hits Press Coverage by Joe Pilati "I've been honored by the highest prize in your profession," Pulitzer Prize-winning mayoral candidate Norman Mailer told a throng of reporters at a pres ... More >>

A Gay Man Considers Joining the GOP

Is it possible that Republicans could prove to be a closer ally?

Hey NYPD, Want to Catch Even More Terrorists? End the Quotas and Victim Intimidation

​By John A. Eterno and Eli B. Silverman The Village Voice has offered the world a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the New York City Police Department. Graham Rayman's expose of the 81st Precinct revealed that Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft secretly recorded "in-house" conversations ... More >>

What the Doctor Ordered: Urban Sociologist Earned PhD in Bar Culture

.Mitch/flickr​ If you're a bartender or bar owner on the Lower East Side, you might have run into Dr. Richard Ocejo at some point or another, either bellied up to the bar by himself or skulking around some community board meeting, furiously scribbling down what is being said. The 28-year-old ... More >>

City Jails Get a New Commissioner

​The city jails system has a new commissioner. Dora Schriro, a former special advisor in the Department of Homeland Security, was tapped this week to replace Martin Horn, who has gone on to a cushy job as a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Schriro in the past has also run ... More >>

The Lost Art of Going to Jail

[Photo of Barrios from soaw.org]There are those cynics in this generation who believe that public protest is more or less a dead art -- long discredited, a relic of the sixties.But don't tell that to Luis Barrios.Barrios, a professor of forensic psychology and Latin American Studies at John Jay Coll ... More >>

Should the New 9/11 Museum Tell the Whole Truth?

Victims' families say yes.

Seattle Unsuccessfully Poaches NY Cops

UPDATE: Sean Bell Cops Not Guilty on All Counts As City Reacts

Arthur Nersesian's The Swing Voter of Staten Island

The city moves west in an alternate-history novel

Unanswered Questions about the Deutsche Bank Fire

Talk Ain't Cheap

The Nightlife Summit didn't solve every club owner's problems, but it's an overdue start

Letters

The Pat-Down Shakedown

Why the new bouncer-targeting nightlife proposals are little more than security theatre

Last Call for the Falls?

Fire Storms

An inferno in Greenpoint highlights a drop in the number of fire investigators

Flunking a Bar Exam

After the killing of Imette St. Guillen, scrutiny for the Falls dynasty

Something's Missing

Crime-stat revelation: 'Lost property' reports mysteriously soar

Letters

More Than 'Just Say No'

Addiction studies thrives in academia

Aeschylus or Swahili?

The changing notions of what students need to know

SpaghettiOs, Mom's Credit Card, and Centipedes in the Basement

Hungry grads make a shoestring assault on New York

Girlfight

Self-Defense Training Prepares Women for Combat on the Streets

Listings

Marrying the Arts

Subtle Dramas in a Snowy Land, Across a Table, and in Kentucky Caves

360 Degrees of Incarceration

Web Documentary Slams Home Reality of Prisons

The Whys of Grope 'Sex'

Exploring the Psyche of the Crowd

Pulped Up

City’s Goof Destroys Old Criminal Records

The Executioner’s Secrets

A New Book and Exhibit Reveal the Inner Workings of Sing Sing, New York’s Most Notorious Death Chamber.

Sin City

Sex Workers Come Clean About The Vice Squad

Killer Instinct

APB Online Hopes Crime Will Pay

Spycam City

The Surveillance Society: Part One

Hemp and Circumstance

Family Day Values Uproot the Weed in Washington Square