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CJO & CJHS: "Prosecutor for financial crimes speaks at Rutgers"
The Criminal Justice Org and the Criminal Justice Honor Society hosted Alumni Clark Abrams, the chief of the Money Laundering and Financial Investigations Unit for the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor of NYC on November 27th, 2018. Click the link below to find out what he said to our students.
Dr. Amanda Agan's paper nominated as one of the top 12 published in 2018
Dr. Amanda Agan's paper on economic effects of “Ban the Box” legislation was nominated as one of the top 12 papers published in 2018.
https://qz.com/1508659/twelve-leading-economists-on-the-research-that-shaped-our-world-in-2018/
Her work was nominated by Claudia Goldin of Harvard. Claudia is widely considered a top candidate for the Nobel Prize in economics.
Keeping Its Promise to Families, New York Identifies Another 9/11 Victim
Mark Desire estimates that his team had tried to identify the bone half a dozen times over the past 17 years — ever since it was recovered amid the rubble of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. Each time, they came up short.
As part of New York City’s effort to identify the remains of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack, Mr. Desire, the assistant director of forensic biology for the city’s Medical Examiner’s office, and his colleagues had been unable to extract enough DNA from the sample to make a positive identification.
Committee on Law and Justice Presents "The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences"
Anne Piehl was involved with the Committee on Law and Justice: Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences Education, which released a report a few weeks ago on "The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences".
"After decades of stability, the United States saw its incarceration rate more than quadruple in the past 40 years. Currently, nearly 1 out of 100 American adults is in prison or jail. What drove this increase, and how has it affected crime rates, individuals, families, communities, and society at large?
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States finds that the dramatic increase in incarceration has failed to clearly yield large crime-reduction benefits for the nation. In addition, the growth in incarceration may have had a wide range of unwanted consequences for individuals, families, communities, and society. The report recommends that policymakers take steps to reduce the nation’s reliance on incarceration.
Criminal Justice Major Published in Columbia Undergraduate Law Review
Connor F. Montferrat (Class of 2013), a Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences student double-majoring in Criminal Justice and Political Science was published in the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review. “Repeal Rule 413 of the Federal Rules of Evidence: The Admissibility of Evidence of Prior Sex Offenses” was a paper Connor originally completed for Dr. Lennox Hinds’ Crimes Against Humanity course. His paper was published in Volume VII, Issue I, Fall 2012 edition of the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review.