John Jay College was recently honored with a WESTY Award by The Westside Sp irit – a community newspaper that is part of Straus News. The awards ceremony was held on campus at the Anya and Andrew...

February 10, 2015, New York, NY– The American Institute of Architecture ( AIA ) National Honor Awards were announced recently and John Jay College’s new building was one of just 8 buildings honored...

February 9, 2015, New York, NY– Noted criminologist Henry N. Pontell has been appointed a Presidential Scholar and Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal...

Monica Varsanyi, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science, discussed recent developments in U.S. immigration policy and law on Al Jazeera America. During the live interview with...

Tracie L. Keesee, PhD, has been appointed as the project director for the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, a U.S. Department of Justice project led by John Jay College of...

New York, NY – Maria Hinojosa, one of the country’s foremost broadcast journalists and media entrepreneurs, will be honored as the 2015 “Justice Trailblazer” at a dinner on February 9, 2015, at the...

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...