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April 9 9:00 AM
20th Annual Malcolm/King
Breakfast (Rescheduled)
Keynote Speaker:
Woodie King Jr.
Founder, New Federal Theatre
Honoree:
Robert Johnson
Bronx District Attorney
Gymnasium, Haaren Hall
April 12 7:00 PM
Justice and Injustice
in 1950s America
The Role of Folk Music as an Element in
an Emerging Counter-Culture
Peggy Seeger
Room 630, Haaren Hall
April 16 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
2nd Biennial
Literature & Law Conference
Registration required. Online at
http://litandlawjjay.blogspot.com
Various locations, Haaren Hall
April 19 7:00 PM
Justice and Injustice
in 1950s America
The 1950s: Some Literary Snapshots
E.L. Doctorow
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, Haaren Hall
April 19 5:00 PM
2010 Alumni Reunion
With a special salute to the graduating
classes of 2005, 2000, 1995, 1990, 1985,
1980, 1975, 1970 and 1965.
Haaren Hall
Don’t Touch That Dial: John Jay Is Now on iTunes U
John Jay students — along with the entire
online world — now have access to a wide
variety of multimedia content — including course
lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations,
performances and much more — through the
popular iTunes University website.
iTunes U offers educational content from
hundreds of colleges and universities throughout
Alumna Takes On the World
Prized Internship Awaits at Hague Tribunal
Fabiana Araujo, a May 2009
graduate of John Jay’s baccalau-
reate program in International
Criminal Justice, has won a pres-
tigious internship at the Inter-
national Criminal Court in The
Hague, Netherlands.
Araujo will be working in the
Victims and Witness Unit of the
court’s Office of the Public Coun-
sel for Victims, where she will
develop policy papers, conduct
research and analyses of political,
legal and social issues as well as
provide support, protective and
Fabiana Araujo
logistical services to victims and
witnesses who appear before the court.
“Since coming to John Jay in 2004, Fabiana
has pursued a sustained interest in law and
international relations,” said sociology Professor
Rosemary Barberet, interim director of the new
John Jay Center Turns Up the Heat on a
Hot-Button Issue, Stop & Frisk Practices
Few questions regarding police practices in
New York City are more sensitive than those
surrounding stop, question and frisk tactics, with
hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers being
stopped by police each year.
In hopes of shedding light on the dimensions
of the controversial issue and contributing to the
public’s understanding of it, John Jay’s Center
on Race, Crime and Justice has produced “Stop,
Question & Frisk Policing Practices in New York
City: A Primer.” The document was unveiled on
March 9 in connection with a forum at the New
York City Bar Association.
“The purpose of the primer is not to settle the
debate about the costs and benefits of current
practice,” said John Jay President Jeremy Travis.
“On the contrary, the primer simply presents
available data on stop, question and frisk
practices in New York City; the interpretation
of the data is left to others. Appropriately,
the primer also provides a list of questions,
recognizing both that the list is incomplete
and that some advocates in the debate would
assert that critical questions have already been
answered.”
Under the lead authorship of Professor Delores
Jones-Brown, Director of the Center on Race,
Crime and Justice, the primer documents that
over the seven-year period from 2003 to 2009,
the number of stops documented by New York
City police officers each year has more than
tripled, to more than 575,000 in 2009. Even that
figure is likely to represent only about 70 percent
of the actual number, since not all stops are
documented.
Five of the city’s 76 police precincts had the
greatest number of stops cumulatively from
2003 to 2008: the 23rd (Upper East Side/East
Harlem), 73rd (Ocean Hill-Brownsville), 75th
(East New York), 79th (Bedford-Stuyvesant) and
103rd (Jamaica). Of the more than 540,000 stops
in 2008 alone, just over 54 percent involved
the officer frisking the suspect. “A very small
percentage (1.24 percent) of total stops resulted
in the discovery of a weapon of any kind (gun,
the United States. Once a user has installed free
iTunes software on a personal computer, videos
and audios can be downloaded to an iPod,
iPhone or other MP3 player.
John Jay’s iTunes site has both public and
private sections. The public portion, which
debuted last week, includes features such as
college highlights, presentations such as the
master’s degree program in
International Crime and Justice.
“Her new duties will combine
her training in criminal justice,
her experience as a paralegal
in the immigration law firm
of Wildes & Weinberg, P.C.
and her fluency in Portuguese,
Spanish and English.
“She is very passionate about
international criminal justice,”
Barberet said of Araujo, who
left to begin her internship at
the end of March.
Araujo was born and raised
in Brazil and relocated to the
United States along with her family in 2000. She
plans to enter law school following her internship
at the world court.
The internship is a first for a John Jay
graduate, Barberet said.
News and Events of Interest
March 31, 2010
Professor Jeffrey Fagan of Columbia University addresses a packed house at New York City Bar Association headquarters,
during a forum that accompanied the release of a primer on the stop, question and frisk practices of the New York City
Police Department. The primer was prepared by John Jay’s Center on Race, Crime and Justice.
knife or other type of weapon),” the primer especially among youth?
reported. ¶ What are the best practices in conducting
A slightly higher percentage (1.70 percent) stops?
led to the discovery of some other kind of ¶ What causal relationship, if any, exists
contraband, including illegal drugs, and 6 between public safety and the police use of stop,
percent of stops resulted in an arrest. question and frisk tactics?
Blacks and Hispanics made up the ¶ How do current stop-and-frisk practices
overwhelming majority of persons stopped for compare with the NYPD’s stated prohibition
each year between 2003 and 2009. In 2009 against racial profiling?
alone, the primer points out that blacks and Participants in the accompanying panel
Hispanics combined were stopped nine times discussion included former Miami, FL, Police
more than whites. Blacks and Hispanics were also Chief John Timoney; Professor Jeffrey Fagan of
more likely to be subjected to frisks and police Columbia University; Heather MacDonald, the
use of force following a stop. John M. Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute;
The primer notes that while available data on and Professor Tracey Meares, Deputy Dean of the
police stops in New York City describe a great Yale Law School.
deal about their volume, nature and outcomes, Funding for the publication of the stop and
the statistics raise as many questions as they frisk primer was provided by the Open Society
answer. The primer suggests that future research Institute. The Center for Constitutional Rights
should examine such questions as: provided some of the data and analysis used in
¶ How does being stopped by a police officer the document, which is available online at www.
affect one’s perceptions of law enforcement, jjay.cuny.edu/primer.
Patrick V. Murphy lecture series, Lloyd Sealy
lecture series and the Book & Author panel
discussions, conferences and symposia, and the
CUNY-TV program “Criminal Justice Matters.”
Sports highlights, college-sponsored
performances, campus tours and interviews with
college faculty, staff, students and alumni are
also part of iTunes U.
The private portion of John Jay’s iTunes
presence, which was rolled out earlier, has a
course-specific section, with all courses offered
at the College automatically receiving an iTunes
site. Only students enrolled in a given course
can access its iTunes site, and faculty members
are responsible for building and customizing
the site. The private section can be accessed via
Blackboard or directly without first going through
Blackboard, and requires the same authentication
procedures for security purposes.
Check the college website, www.jjay.cuny.edu,
for information and updates on iTunes University
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Standing Up for Justice:
Three Different Approaches
A panel discussion in conjunction with
the 2010 Justice Awards presentation
Featuring Leymah Gbowee (Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace), Peter Neufeld
(The Innocence Project), Kara Hartzler (Florence, AZ, Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project)
Tuesday, April 6, 3:30 PM
Room 630, Haaren Hall
 CAMPUS SCENES
New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. takes time to meet and chat
The Law in with John Jay students during the annual Law Day @ John Jay observance on
March 13. Vance would deliver the Samuel and Anna Jacobs Foundation Lecture
their Future?
on Law and the Legal Profession. Sponsored by the Pre-Law Institute, Law Day
included presentations on preparing for and succeeding in law school, mastering
the Law School Admissions Test, career paths in the law, and more.
Everyone’s Irish for a Day at McCabe Breakfast
The annual McCabe Fellowship Breakfast
played to a packed house at John Jay on March
15, in a pre-St. Patrick’s Day celebration of the
academic exchange program between An Garda
Siochána, the Irish national police, and John Jay.
The Fellowship Program was created in mem-
ory of Irish police detective Jerry McCabe, who
was killed in the line of duty during an attempted
robbery in June 1996. Each year, two or more
members of An Garda Siochána come to John
Jay for an intensive course of study toward a
graduate degree.
As she has in the past, Anne McCabe, the
detective’s widow, attended the breakfast to
bring words of greeting and encouragement. “I
prefer to look forward to the future rather than
dwell in the past,” she said. “I’m proud to num-
ber this Fellowship as one of the good things to
come out of the tragedy of Jerry’s death.”
Noting the evolution of the peace process that
has all but ended decades of political violence in
Ireland and Northern Ireland, McCabe told the
audience that “peace and justice have been the
calling of so many people in Ireland” it would
be lamentable if the final steps were not taken
toward that goal.
McCabe’s view was echoed by the Hon. Barry
Andrews, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
for the Republic of Ireland. “It isn’t the work of
politicians but the commitment of communities,”
FACULTY / STAFF NOTES
ON BOARD
JEFFREY BUTTS has been named Director of
the Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation
Center. Butts holds a PhD in sociology and
social work from the University of Michigan.
He has been director of the Program on Youth
Justice at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC,
and senior research associate at the National
Center for Juvenile Justice, among other career
highlights.
PRESENTING
JODIE G. ROURE (Latin American and Latina/o
Studies) was the featured speaker on April 1 at
the Color of Law Roundtable held at Western
New England College School of Law. Roure is a
1997 alumna of the law school.
M. VICTORIA PÉREZ-RIOS (Political Science)
attended the annual convention of the
International Studies Association, held in New
Orleans, LA, from February 17 – 20, where she
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Irish eyes are smiling as Anne McCabe (right) enjoys a few moments with this year’s McCabe Fellows, Justin Kelly and
Caroline Copeland.
he said, “that makes peace and reconciliation
possible.”
Other speakers included Nacie Rice, Deputy
Commissioner of An Garda Siochána, and the
Hon. Margaret Ritchie, Minister of the Depart-
presented a paper on “War and Truth and/or
Historical Memory,” chaired a panel on “Are
Democracy and Human Rights Compatible?”
and was the discussant on a panel exploring
“Conceptualizing and Realizing Democracy.”
At the annual conference of the Southern
Political Science Association, held in Atlanta,
GA, in January, Pérez-Rios presented a paper on
“Accountability After 9-11: International and
Domestic Implications of the War on Terror.”
KATHLEEN COLLINS (Library) presented her
paper, “Murrow and Friendly’s ‘Small World’:
The Impossible Ideal of the World’s Biggest
Classroom” on March 13 at a joint meeting of
the American Journalism Historians Association
and the Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication, History Division, at
the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
MARIE UMEH (English) presented a paper on
“(Re)Defining Masculinity: Male Involvement
in Eradicating Violence Against Women and
Promoting Human Rights for Women” at
the annual conference of the United Nations
Commission on the Status of Women, held in
New York on March 7.
MICHAEL PFEIFER (History) delivered the 2010
Rondel Davidson History Lecture at the University
of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, TX, on
February 25. Pfeifer’s lecture was on “Texas, the
Southwest, and the Origins of Lynching in the
United States.”
educating for justice
Playwright Tony Kushner (right), award-winning author of Angels Over America,
“Angels” over took to the stage at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater on March 8 for a freewheel-
ing conversation with Visiting Professor Michael Meeropol. The session was
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part of the semester-long lecture series “Justice and Injustice in 1950s America”
presented by Meeropol and the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, with funding
support from the New York Council for the Humanities.
ment of Social Change in Northern Ireland and
head of the Social Democratic and Labour Party.
This year’s McCabe Fellows are Gardaí Justin
Kelly and Caroline Copeland, both of whom are
pursuing master’s degrees in criminal justice.
KIMORA (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration) spoke to men at the
Forestdale Fathering Initiative in Queens on
March 2. The initiative reconnects fathers with
their children, helping them to understand the
roles and responsibilities of fatherhood. All the
clients were mandated by a judge to a 12-week
job training and parenting course. Kimora’s
presentation was titled “Conflict Resolution in
the Face of Domestic Abuse.”
BETWEEN THE COVERS
MICHAEL PFEIFER (History) has had an article
accepted for publication in The Journal of
American History. “The Northern U.S. and the
Genesis of Racial Lynching: The Lynching of
African-Americans in the Era of the Civil War”
will appear in the journal’s December 2010 issue.
PAUL BRENNER (Audio Visual Services) worked
as a research assistant on the forthcoming book
Roger Maris: Baseball’s Reluctant Hero.
ABBY STEIN (Anthropology/Interdisciplinary
Studies) has published a chapter, “Shooting
in the Spaces: Violent Crime as Dissociated
Enactment” in the book Knowing, Not Knowing,
and Sort of Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the
Experience of Uncertainty (Karnac, 2010).
JEREMY TRAVIS (President), ANNA CRAYTON
and DEBBIE MUKAMAL (Prisoner Reentry
Institute) have coauthored an article, “A New
College Pauses to
Remember Victims
of Haiti Earthquake
“I would like to ask my school to come and
help my country.”
With these words, John Jay alumnus Delarquy
Fleuriot reminded attendees at a March 16
memorial for victims of the recent earthquake in
Haiti that much is needed in the aftermath of the
disaster that claimed more than 200,000 lives.
The tone for the somber ceremony was set by
a video of scenes from the devastation, which
President Jeremy Travis noted showed “damaged
buildings and broken bodies, but also, more
importantly, the strength and courage of the
Haitian people.”
Andy Rocher, president of the Haitian Students
Association, said that, like many fellow students,
he had suffered loss in the earthquake, with two
aunts having perished. Jean Louis, a member
of the Registrar’s Office who was born in Haiti
and came to the United States 14 years ago,
importuned the audience to not think of Haiti as
“a one-time media-generated catastrophe.”
Fleuriot, a 1997 graduate, closed the
proceedings with his impassioned plea for help.
“Through the darkness of this tragedy, we see a
light, and each day it’s getting brighter,” he said.
“We are a great nation, a strong nation, and one
day we will rise up again.”
Era in Inmate Reentry,” that was published in the
December 2009 issue of Corrections Today.
PEER REVIEW
ANGELINE BUTLER (African American Studies)
received a Freedom Flame award on March 6
From the Bridge Crossing Jubilee — Voting Rights
Museum in Selma, AL. While in Selma to receive
the award, Butler spoke about her acclaimed
1987 commemorative play Voices of a Sit-In.
KIMORA (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration) has been appointed to
the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Education
Curriculum Development Committee.
MIRIAM EHRENBERG (Psychology) was
recently featured in GO magazine as one of its
“Women at the Helm,” in recognition of her
work as Executive Director of the Institute for
Human Identity, a nonprofit psychotherapy and
training center in Manhattan.
JANE KATZ (Health and Physical Education)
conducted her annual aquatic clinic in March
at the John Jay pool for New York University
physical therapy students. She introduced over
30 students to the benefits of water exercise
for future therapists. Katz also competed in the
recent United States Masters Swimming one-
hour swim championship, completing 3,600
yards. She placed second in the nation in both
individual and relay categories.