Gail Caputo, Assistant Professor (B.S., Ph.D. Rutgers-Newark), teaches courses on criminal justice policy analysis, ethics and policy, and corrections. She is the author of What's in the Bag? A Shoplifting Treatment and Education Program and Intermediate Sanctions in Corrections. Her early research addressed moral reasoning in the determination of criminal punishment. Her more recent research has focused on intermediate sanctions programs, with a particular focus on shoplifters and community service sentencing. She has been involved both in creating alternatives to incarceration and in their evaluation. She is currently extending her research on shoplifting. Before coming to Rutgers-Camden, Dr. Caputo worked at the Vera Institute of Justice as a Senior Research Associate, at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and at both Texas A&M and the University of North Texas.
Email: gcaputo@camden.rutgers.edu

Ted Goertzel, Professor (B.A. Antioch; Ph.D. Washington University), teaches the methods course in the program, as well as sociology of communications, political sociology, social movements, Introduction to Latin American Studies, and other courses.  He is the author of six books, the most recent being a new edition of Cradles of Eminence: Childhoods of More Than Four Hundred Famous Men and Women and Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Reinventing Democracy in Brazil. He is also the author of Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics, Turncoats and True Believers: The Dynamics of Political Belief and Disillusionment, Sociology: Class, Consciousness and Contradictions (with Albert Szymanski), and Political Society, along with many articles and reports.
E-mail: goertzel@camden.rutgers.edu

Drew Humphries, Professor (B.A.; D. Crim. University of California at Berkeley) and Director of the graduate and undergraduate programs in Criminal Justice, teaches a variety of criminal justice courses: police, deviance, violence, and drugs and society. She has published in the areas of crime, social control, media, women, and drugs. Dr. Humphries is the author of Crack Mothers: Drugs, Pregnancy and the Media and co-editor of Women, Violence, and the Media, a special issue of Violence Against Women.  Dr. Humphries received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology in 2003.
E-mail: humphri@camden.rutgers.edu

Michelle Meloy, Assistant Professor (B.A., Indiana University, Ph.D. University of Delaware) teaches in the areas of criminology, corrections, law and society, and women and crime. Dr. Meloy's research focuses on how gender plays itself out in the criminal justice system. She coauthored a U.S.Congressional report on the impact of the Violence against Women Act, and is the author of the book, Sex Offenses and the Men Who Commit Them: An Assessment of Sex Offenders on Probation. She is also working on a book on victimization, highlighting crimes commonly committed against women and children. Before coming to Rutgers-Camden, Dr. Meloy taught at Widener University, and before her graduate study, worked as a senior probation officer for sexual offenders in Illinois.
Email: mlmeloy@camden.rutgers.edu

Jon'a Meyer, Associate Professor (B.A. California State University, Dominguez Hills; Ph.D. University of California at Irvine) and Director of the Graduate Program in Criminal Justice, teaches law and society and a range of courses in the criminal justice program. She has published on many aspects of criminal justice, including judicial attitudes and bias in sentencing, Native American legal systems, prison industry and reform, community oriented policing, women in denial of their pregnancies or who have concealed their pregnancies, homicide (including infanticide and neonaticide) and issues in children's courtroom testimony. Dr. Meyer is the author of Doing Justice in the People's Court: Sentencing by Municipal Court Judges and Inaccuracies in Children's Testimony: Memory Suggestibility or Obedience to Authority? and co-author of The Courts in Our Criminal Justice System. Dr. Meyer received the Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000.
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Jane A. Siegel, Associate Professor (B.A. Drew University, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania), is the Chair of the department. She teaches a range of courses in criminal justice, including the introductory course, juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, statistics, white collar crime and corrections. She has published a number of articles on the long-term consequences of sexual abuse and on sexual victimization based on longitudinal studies of adult survivors of child sexual abuse for which she was co-principal investigator. She recently completed a National Institute of Justice funded study of risk factors for victimization of women. Dr. Siegel's book, Disrupted Childhoods: Children of Women in Prison, will be published by Rutgers University Press in its Childhood Studies book series in 2008.
Email: jasiegel@camden.rutgers.edu