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Dear Students: To those of you returning, welcome back, and to our new students joining us, welcome to the fields of Sociology, Criminology and Dispute Resolution, all in one department at John Jay! I hope your studies are going well this year. Our Sociology Department Newsletter highlights many of the activities and accomplishments of our students and faculty. We hope you enjoy read- ing it, and that it leads you to inquire, learn, and discover more about sociology, as well as other related areas of study. In the follow- ing pages you'll find interesting stories about our past and planned events, students and faculty, awards, ongoing research, and more. Our second International Sociology Honor Society Induction Ceremony, will be held this April. Our Dept. Student-Faculty Town Hall was held in February, and ideas and ad- vice were exchanged over pizza and snacks. We have two superb speakers this spring in our Sociology Talks Series, former NYS prosecutor Malcolm Bell and Professor Colleen Eren. Professor Jan Yager has continued to offer professional skills building workshops that are attracting an increasing number of students. Watch for future announcements so that you can sign up, as space is limited. We are also excited about hiring two new full-time faculty, Rochelle Arms and Liza Steele, who will be joining us next fall. The Department is also looking forward to our end-of-year Award Celebra- tion, which honors our excel- lent adjunct faculty and stu- dents and will be held in May. Again, welcome back, I wish you all the best for continued success in your studies, and to those of you who are graduat- ing this year, CONGRATULATIONS! Henry N. Pontell Distinguished Professor Chair's Welcome SPRING 2018, Number 3 Volume 3 Editors: Alisa Thomas Precious Subtyl DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY NEWSLETTER

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Dear Students:

To those of you returning, welcome back,

and to our new students joining us, welcome

to the fields of Sociology, Criminology and

Dispute Resolution, all in one department at

John Jay!

I hope your studies are

going well this year. Our

Sociology Department

Newsletter highlights

many of the activities

and accomplishments of

our students and faculty.

We hope you enjoy read-

ing it, and that it leads you to inquire, learn,

and discover more about sociology, as well

as other related areas of study. In the follow-

ing pages you'll find interesting stories

about our past and planned events, students

and faculty, awards, ongoing research, and

more.

Our second International Sociology Honor

Society Induction Ceremony, will be held

this April. Our Dept. Student-Faculty Town

Hall was held in February, and ideas and ad-

vice were exchanged over pizza and snacks.

We have two superb speakers this spring inour Sociology Talks Series, former NYS

prosecutor Malcolm Bell and Professor

Colleen Eren. Professor Jan Yager has

continued to offer professional skills

building workshops that are attracting an

increasing number of students. Watch for

future announcements so that you can sign

up, as space is limited. We are also excited

about hiring two new full-time faculty,

Rochelle Arms and Liza

Steele, who will be joining us

next fall. The Department is

also looking forward to our

end-of-year Award Celebra-

tion, which honors our excel-

lent adjunct faculty and stu-

dents and will be held in May.

Again, welcome back, I wish

you all the best for continued success in your

studies, and to those of you who are graduat-

ing this year, CONGRATULATIONS!

Henry N. Pontell

Distinguished Professor

Chair's Welcome

SPRING 2018,

Number 3 Volume 3

Editors: Alisa Thomas

Precious Subtyl

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Professor Richard Lovely Professor Crystal Jackson

Professor Jackson used the Faculty Student

Engagement fund to take ten students from

SOC 243, Sociology of Sexualities, to lunch

in the Faculty Dining Hall in Fall 2017.

She also gave three research talks over win-

ter break based on survey data of "porn su-

per-fans" who travel to Las Vegas each year,

and her analyses were presented at the same

event, The Adult Entertainment Expo. She

also gave talks to colleagues at the Universi-

ty of California, Santa Barbara and the Uni-

versity of California, Los Angeles. Prelimi-

nary findings challenge stereotypes of male

porn consumers as sexist and misogynistic

by comparing their answers to national find-

ings from the General Social Survey

on gender egalitarianism.

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The Sociology Department of John Jay College has a distinguished faculty of inter-

nationally known scholars in sociology, criminology, dispute resolution, and related are-

as and offers outstanding academic programs and opportunities for learning, service,

and research. The department’s wide array of foundational specialized, and interdisci-

plinary courses encourage students to develop a broad sociological understanding of the

nature and structure of society and its institutions.

BSidesNYC 2018, a cyber security conference, was held at John Jay on January 20, 2018. The event was hosted by Professor Richard Lovely on behalf of John Jay’s Digital Forensics and Cyber security graduate program (D4CS). Pro-fessor Lovely, the co-founder of D4CS, opened the conference with remarks to set the stage and welcome visitors to the college. BSides is a loosely organized national web of volunteers who locally organize and run unique free cyber security conferences in cities around the U.S. as a counterpoint to expensive commercially run conferences. This was the second BSides NYC conference hosted by Professor Lovely and D4CS. A mix of over 600 cyber security profes-sionals and graduate students attended who hailed mostly from the New York region. They enjoyed three venues of presentations in the New Building and some “village” workshops on topics such as lock-picking, soldering, and NYC Mesh community Wi-Fi. You can view streams of the BSides program and Professor Lovely’s opening remarks at https://bsidesnyc.org

Faculty Highlights

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Training

For the last two summers, Maria Volpe has as-

sumed a leadership role in a partnership with

Mediators Beyond Borders International – New

York Regional Group and the Union Of Liberian

Associations (ULAA) in the Americas to pro-

vide conflict resolution skills to ULAA leaders

in the NYC and nearby states. Participants

gained knowledge and skills they aspired to use

in their diaspora communities and in managing

post-conflict divisions in Liberia.

Conflict Resolution and Mediation Workshop,

Center for Employment Opportunities, Aug

2017

Basic Mediation Skills Training for

Peer Specialists, with Dan Berstein

of MH Mediate, 5 days, funded by

AAA-ICDR Foundation, John Jay

College, Aug 2017.

Grants and Awards

The New York State Council on Di-

vorce Mediation awarded Profes-

sor Maria Volpe their Lifetime

Achievement Award at its annual conference in

May. She was recognized for her leadership in

the mediation field.

In July, the NYS Office of Mental Health Anti-

Stigma Fund awarded Maria Volpe and Dan

Berstein of MH Mediate a grant to combat stig-

ma towards mental health in both mainstream

and social media. This project creates and dis-

seminates a web-based toolkit that helps users

have empowering conversations about mental

health. This project furthers the work that Ma-

ria and Dan have been undertaking since last

year that was funded by the AAA-ICDR Foun-

dation.

Previous Presentations

Academia and Accessing Academic Resources at A

Mediation Career: Getting Started, Dec 7, 2017.

Panelist, Local to Global to Local. 2017 Jed D.

Melnick Symposium, Persistent Human Divides:

Creative Initiatives for Communication, Collabora-

tion, and Cohesion, Cardozo Law School, NYC, Nov

13, 2017

Invited Presenter, Diversity and Inclusion in Dis-

pute Resolution, Mediation Settlement Day, New

York Law School, October 18, 2017.

Invited Presenter, Addressing Mediation’s Elusive-

ness. Annual Conference, Center for Alternative

Dispute Resolution, Greenbelt, Mary-

land, June 16, 2017.

Invited Presenter, Constructive Ap-

proaches to Conflict Resolution, Sup-

portive Housing of New York, NYC,

June 1, 2017.

Invited Presenter, Police Mediation,

International Visitor Leadership Pro-

gram from the Sahel [Niger, Mali,

Mauritania, Burkina Faso]. Countering Violent Ex-

tremism. US Department of State, Office of Inter-

national Visitors, October 19, 2017.

Conflict Resolution Workshop for Hip Hop Artists

from Algeria, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Indonesia,

and Tunisa, part of a US State Department cultural

diplomacy program called Next Level hosted by the

University of North Carolina’s Department of Mu-

sic and the US Department of State’s Bureau of Ed-

ucational and Cultural Affairs, June 30, 2017

Invited Presenter, Cultivating Interfaith Dialogue

on Campus. US Department of State and the Bu-

reau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Study

of the US Institute on US Culture and Society. Mul-

tinational Institute of American Studies at New

York University, June 14, 2017.

Professor Maria Volpe

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Professor Rosemary Barberet

The Sociology Department has been home to

the Sage Journal, Feminist Criminology

(The official journal of The Division on Women

and Crime of the American Society of Criminol-

ogy) for the past four years. Professor Rose-

mary Barberet (editor) and managing editor,

Diana Rodriguez-Spahia celebrate the numer-

ous milestones the journal has achieved under

their term at their last editorial board meeting

held at the American Society of Criminology. In

the tradition of John Jay College of Criminal

Justice, Feminist Criminology has taken an

interdisciplinary and international approach to

the understanding the nexus of women and

crime.

Professor Rosemary Barberet received the

Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice

and the Sarah Hall Award for Service Contribu-

tions from the Division on Women and Crime at

the American Society of Criminology Meetings

in Philadelphia last November. The Saltzman

Award recognizes criminologists whose research

and work significantly contribute to the quality

of justice and safety of women. The Sarah Hall

Award recognizes scholarship and contributions

to the Division on Women and Crime in addi-

tion to other professional interests in the field of

feminist criminology.

Professor Diana Rodriguez-Spahia

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Professor Garot

attended a visual

and filmic sociolo-

gy conference in

Paris in March,

2017 and present-

ed a paper con-

trasting the expe-

rience of negotiat-

ing over content

when creating

film versus writ-

ing an ethnogra-

phy. He showed

two short documentaries there. He is also

collaborating with colleagues in Europe on

various projects and papers.

Inmates he works with at Sing Sing Prison in-

vited him to speak at their annual Peace Day

event in October, which commemorates the

murder of a former inmate, and a yearly pledge

since then of nonviolence. He talked about his

work with youth in South Central Los Angeles

in the 1990’s, many of whom were in-

volved with gangs, and how they learned to

walk away from fights and to avoid violence.

Professor Robert Garot

Amy’s book, Cross-

National Public Opin-

ion about Homosexu-

ality, received the

2018 ACJS Interna-

tional Section Out-

standing Book Award.

With her coauthor,Professor Amy Adamczyk was recent-ly awarded the Best Paper Award for 2016from the Journal of Management, Spiritu-ality, and Religion.

See more of Professor Adamczyk'spublications on the ‘RECENT FACULTY PUBLICATIONS' page in our newsletter.

Professor Amy Adamczyk

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Co-authored with John Jay undergraduates, Nicolle Ramirez, Brian Moriarty and Ivan Yeung, Pro-

fessor Pontell gave a presentation at the November 2017 Meetings of the American Society of

Criminology in Philadelphia entitled, “Predictable Corporate Crime Scandals? Poor Corporate Gov-

ernance and Criminogenic Environments at Wells Fargo and Volkswagen.” He also served as a dis-

cussant at an Author Meets Critics Session on Greg Barak’s award-winning book, Unchecked Corpo-

rate Power: Why the Crimes of Multinational Corporations Are Routinized Away and What We

Can Do About It (Routledge, 2017).

Last spring he gave an invited lecture to over 100 students and faculty at the Department of Sociolo-

gy of the University of Macau entitled, “Casinos and Economic Crime: The Paradox of Enforcement.”

Professor Henry Pontell

Casinos and Economic Crime: The Paradox of Enforcement

Henry Pontell

Distinguished Professor

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Date: 13th April 2017

Time: 11:30am—12:45pm

Venue: E21-G016

Abstract:

Notwithstanding the results of some empirical studies, casinos and gambling are widely considered to be breeding grounds for a range of deviant behavior and crimi-nal offenses. The casino industry in Macau, by far the largest in the world, offers a unique opportunity to examine issues of economic crime. Using the literature on white-collar crime from criminology, and casino regulation from sociology, this presentation highlights major issues regarding the methods of control of the gambling industry and the paradoxes of enforcement that face the policing of white-collar and corporate crimes. The paradox arises from the central sociological insight by Skolnick (1978) that two positions need to be reconciled in the regulation of the casino industry. The first is that the criminal law be employed to enjoin conduct that some find pleas-urable and some think repugnant. The second concerns the more generic question of the limits that ought to be employed to regulate different kinds of enterprises. Case studies are examined that illustrate both this central debate, and the resulting para-doxes that face enforcement of major economic crimes.

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Assistant Professor Ritchie

Savage, recently published

Populist Discourse in Ven-

ezuela and the United

States: American Unex-

ceptionalism and Political

Identity Formation

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). In

early March, he was invited to

participate in an invited Har-

vard University workshop,

"Populism in the Americas,"

sponsored by the David Rocke-

feller Center for Latin American

Studies (DRCLAS). He was also

invited to participate on the

panel, "Affecting the Political,"

at the American Ethnological

Society/Section of Visual An-

thropology (AES/SVA) Joint

Conference, held in Philadelphia

on March 22-24.

Professor Ritchie Savage

In her spare time, Professor Andrea Siegel

curates an inner city art collection, where

she's permanently installed over 600 works

in thematic groupings throughout the 14

campus buildings of Hudson County Com-

munity College in Jersey City. Due to a mas-

sive influx of recent art donations

(including our first Picasso), the collection

now contains over 1000 works (the remain-

ing 400 or so are slated for installation in

the next few months). When Andrea started

on the job— about the same time she started

at John Jay —the collection included 25 in-

stalled works. If you'd like a tour, please let

Andrea know. She's happy to show what can

be done to turn an inner city college into an

educational art museum, including a gallery

of fine art about the African diaspora, art

about Social Justice and Totalitarianism

since 1945, contemporary Hispanic Ameri-

can art, Feminist Art, etc. Go to https://

www.hccc.edu/foundationartcollection/ for

more information.

Professor Andrea Siegel

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Professors Kwan-Lamar Blount & Victor St. John

“Kwan-Lamar Blount-

Hill and Victor J. St. John

are recipients of the 2017

American Society of

Criminology ‘s Division of

Critical Criminology and

Social Justice Best Jour-

nal Article Award ti-

tled “Manufactured Mis-

match: Cultural Incon-

gruence and Black Expe-

rience in the Academy,” a

qualitative exploration of the Black experi-

ence in Criminal Justice doctoral programs

in the U.S. Blount-

Hill and St. John

utilize critical race

theory to focus on

the issues sur-

rounding the un-

derrepresentation

of racial minorities

in higher education,

the barriers that

contribute to this,

and provide in-

sights on how to ameliorate the situation.

Sociology Department Student Advising

The Department offers several options to students who have questions about criminology, sociology, or dispute resolution.

1. The Department of Sociology Advising website is home to major and mi-nor worksheets for students, advising videos, and a Student Ad-vising Guide with answers to most questions: www.jjay.cuny.edu/student-advisement-0

2. Students can email [email protected] with further questions.

3. Appointments with a faculty advisor can be made using AdvisorTrachttps://jjcadvisortrac.jjay.cuny.edu

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- Amy Adamczyk, Joshua.D. Freilich, and

Chunrye Kim (Ph.D. student) 2017. “Religion

and Crime: A Systematic Review and Assess-

ment of Next Steps.” Sociology of Religion. 78:

192-232.

- Gary LaFree and Amy Adamczyk. 2017.

“The Impact of the Boston Marathon Bombing

on Public Willingness to Cooperate with Po-

lice.” Justice Quarterly 34: 459-490.

- Amy Adamczyk, Chunrye Kim (Ph.D. stu-

dent) and Maggie Schmuhl (Ph.D. student) (in

press). “Newspaper Presentations of Homosex-

uality across Nations: Examining Differences by

Religion, Economic Development, and Democ-

racy.” Sociological Perspectives.

Jacob Felson and Amy Adamczyk. (in press)

“Effects of Geography on Mental Health Dispar-

ities on Sexual Minorities in New York City."

Archives of Sexual Behavior.

-Adam Kavon Ghazi-Tehrani, Bryan Burton and

Henry N. Pontell, “Deviant Executives:

Crime in the Suites,” in Steve Brown and Ophir

Sefiha (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Deviance.

NY: Routledge Publishers, Taylor and Francis,

(2017).

-Adam Kavon Ghazi-Tehrani, Lindsey K. Wil-

liams, Yujing Fun, and Henry N. Pontell,

“State Legitimacy and Government Crime: The

China-Japan Rare Earth Element Case.”

Critical Issues in Justice and Politics 10:1

(August 2017): 4-14.

Henry N. Pontell, Adam Kavon Ghazi-

Tehrani and Theresa Chang, “Economic Crime

and China’s High Speed Railway: A Case Study

of the Wenzhou Crash.” Asian Journal of

Criminology 12:1 (2017) 1-22.

- Maria Volpe and M. Johnson summer

2017. “The Color of Money: Compensation

Opportunities and Barriers” Dispute Resolu-

tion Magazine, Vol 23, No 4.

- Maria Volpe and Syeda Alom 2017, The

Voices of Urban Muslims in New York City.

Preface and Co-Editor [with S. Alom]. CUNY

Dispute Resolution Center.

-Maria Volpe, J. Cambria, H. McGowan, C.

Honeyman 2017. “Negotiating with the Un-

known” in The Negotiator’s Desk Reference,

(Vol. 2.) edited by A. K. Schneider and C.

Honeyman, St Paul, Mn.: DRI Press, 2017.

-Maria Volpe September 2017. Cultivating

Ongoing Public Discourse: A College Com-

munity’s Experience. ACResolution 15:4.

-Maria Volpe Aug 2017. Conflict Resolution

and Mediation Workshop, Center for Em-

ployment Opportunities.

-Maria Volpe with Dan Berstein of MH Me-

diate Aug 2017. Basic Mediation Skills Train-

ing for Peer Specialists, AAA-ICDR Founda-

tion, John Jay College.

-Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill and Victor J.

St.John “Manufactured Mismatch”: Cultur-

al Incongruence and Black Experience in the

Academy.” Race and Justice 7:2 (2017) 110-

126.

Ritchie Savage, Populist Discourse in Ven-

ezuela and the United States: American

Unexceptionalism and Political Identity For-

mation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Recent Faculty Publications

Robert H. Tillman, Henry N. Pontell and

William K. Black, Financial Crime and Crises in the Era of False Profits. NY: Oxford

University Press (2017).

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The 2018 Ceremony Will be Held on Tuesday April 24, 2018

2017

Shalena Ali

Oluwatobi Adeleke

Ashley Baxter

Samantha Bibbo

Marsha -Ann Boyea

Arlette Campbell

Henry Chilton

Erika Coello

Marco Collemi

Mary Dedivanaj

Lisandra De Fraga

Anjelica D’Emilio

Ana De Melo

Melissa Despot

Michelle DiLiberto

Amanda Dookee-

ram Katiria Florez

Alvin Gangaram

Heidy Garcia

Katherine Garcia

Cydney Gentile

Nina Gorgoglione

Alexis Huezo

Cindy Huitzil

Francisco Jimenez

Ambiea Khaten

Alexsandra Lema

Natasha Lewis

Elizabeth Luder

Tamiko Massey

Johana Martinez

Gregory Mogollon

Natasha Muthu-

viran Aaron Negron

Mike Palaguachi

Nefer Pelaez

Emilie Quiñones

Madeline Rodri-

quez Cesar Ruiz

Jordan Sanchez

Samantha Schenkel

Ashley Stewart

Kelvin Tejada

Jampal Tsering

Thalia Valdovinos

Priscilla Vidal

Denice Vidals

Melinda Yam

2018

Carolina Acon

Ashley Aversano

Jennifer Cadeau

Sabrina Calderon

Kalilla Dilgen

Christopher Gaidis

Daniell Gomez

Joselina Rodriguez

Mabel Rosario

Yanela Tineo

Yildaliz Abreu

Shakhrizat Ab-

dulaeva

LaToya Alexander

Kelseey Anzures-

Licona

Gavriella Arias

Shyanna Constantino

Mary Famuyide

Genesis Gonzalez

Teresa Guidice

Melanie Hinck

Hye Won Jeon

Navoda Katukurunde

Alexandra Leon

Brianna Lightbourne

Ryan Lynch

Maria José Martinez

Marlen Martinez

Dayne McDonald

Diana Mendoza

Brian Moriarty

Adrian Orozco

Angely Paulino

Nermin Radonic

Kaina Rosario

Isis Samuels

Brian Smith

Amanda Toto

Elizabeth Veilleux

I n 2017 the Sociology Department founded a chapter of The International Sociology

Honor Society, Alpha Kappa Delta at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. To be

Eligible to join, students must be an officially declared Sociology or Criminology major, be at

least a junior, have a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or better, have maintained a 3.0 or better aver-

age across all SOC classes, and have completed at least 4 SOC courses at John Jay College.

2017 and 2018 Alpha Kappa Delta International

Sociology Honor Society Inductees

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2017 Alpha Kappa Delta Inductees

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T his Ceremony recognizes the exceptional dedication and accomplishments in teaching and mentoring by our adjunct faculty. We honor the adjunct faculty

whom the Sociology Department heavily relies on to teach our classes, and celebrate our students who have shown excellence in service and research.

Faculty Teaching Excellence

Awards

Eileen Clancy

James Ditucci-Capppiello

Marquita James

Brian Maule

Diana Rodriguez-Spajia

Ritchie Savage

Student Research Excellence Award

For exceptional research by current seniors majoring in

criminology or sociology

Melissa Despot

Angela Mavrou

Samantha Schenkel

Diana Chacon

Faculty Mentoring Awards

Brian Maule

Jan Yager

Jock Young Award

For the best paper in critical

crimi-nology and/or social

activism

Ashante Joseph

Sean Wheeler Award

To the outstanding student in

criminology

Elizabeth Luder

The 2018 Award Ceremony Will be Held on Tuesday, May 15, 2018

2017 Sociology Department Student-Faculty Awards

STUDENT-FACULTY AWARDS CEREMONY

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2017 Student-Faculty Award Ceremony

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Sociology Talks and Workshops

Sylvie Frignon, Professor of Criminolo-

gy and Social sciences at the University

of Ottawa presented a symposium enti-

tled “The Art of Doing Criminology.”

Professor Jan Yager hosted a student skills building workshop, “Put Time

on Your Side.”

Paul Magin, Ph.D., University of Western Australia, presented “The Regulation of Commercial Sex in Northern Ireland.”

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Get to Know Our Students

Mohammed Amid

My goal is to join the

NYPD and to serve the

public. I thank my sociolo-

gy professors for sparking

my appreciation for law

enforcement. One of the

biggest focal points in my

Sociology 203 class was the importance of im-

proving police practices and building relation-

ships between civilians and the police and that

law enforcement runs more smoothly when there

is an established harmony with citizens. The class

taught me that we can resolve and prevent many

crime issues by tackling them from a "social per-

spective" and by working to improve societal con-

ditions for society's most "at-risk" individuals in

order to stifle crime at its roots. We must help

those vulnerable in order to see positive results in

the overall community. I agree, and will be taking

this knowledge with me a few years from now

when I join the police force and work to build this

connection between the community and law en-

forcement.

Elisa Ironova

I had a really great experi-

ence in Sociology 101 with

Professor Manoj. We learned

about race, socialization,

feminism, and hate crimes.

He taught us so enthusiasti-

cally and with great patience.

He made it very informative

and interesting at the same

time. We discussed a lot of topics relating to glob-

al social problems , including hate crimes, rac-

ism, white - collar crimes, resocialization, globali-

zation and mass migration. I think sociology is a

very important subject for understanding our

world, as it examines relationships among

people, communities, society, and nation-

states. Even if you don't fully understand

a language or culture, there are still a lot

of ways sociology helps you to compre-

hend societies, norms, and different life-

styles!

Raymond Hilker

In SOC 341, International Criminology

taught by Professor Patrick Mondaca, stu-

dents study international crime problems

and develop critical thinking about na-

tional and international anti-crime poli-

cies. One particular assignment called up-

on students to write a high-quality analyt-

ical research paper demonstrating a thor-

ough understanding of a crime category.

Raymond’s paper, which analyzed an as-

pect of international crime in the context

of chemical weapons, considers bot hu-

man and environmental impacts and ex-

amines past and present warfare, contem-

porary treaties, and ideas for a future

without such weapons. As the assignment

required, Raymond utilized a range of

sources tracing the first recorded ancient

use of chemical weapons from the Atheni-

ans siege of Kirrha in 600 BC where he

recounts the poisoning of the city’s water

supply with the herb hellebore, to WWI,

WWII, up to the present conflict in Syria.

Raymond’s paper was featured in a recent

issue of John Jay’s Finest.

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2018 Roger H. Davis Scholarship Recipient

Rebekah Love

Africana and Gender Studies major

Rebekah Love, the second recipient

of the Roger H. Davis Scholarship,

with Sociology Department Chair

Henry Pontell at the 2018 Champi-

ons of Justice Reception.

The Roger H. Davis Scholarship, the first LGBTQ endowed scholarship at John Jay, carries a $1000 per year award for LGBTQ research and/or activism, and is named in memory of Stonewall Inn Rebellion participant and activist, Roger H. Davis. It was created in the Sociology Department and funded by the Davis and Pontell families.

President Karol V. Mason and Interim-Provost Anne Lopes Visiting With Our Faculty

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