Natalie Byfield is a visiting research fellow at the Research and Evaluation Center (2011) and a faculty member in the department of sociology and anthropology at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. At the Center, she continued her research on a model of restorative justice based on guided memoir writing, which uses an empathy-based pedagogy to reach thousands of women, both incarcerated and free. She spent close to a decade working as a journalist in New York City, including at the New York Daily News.  She is a graduate of Princeton University, holds an M.A. in political science from Stanford University, and earned the Ph.D. in sociology from Fordham University. Her forthcoming book, Savage Portrayals: Race, Media & the Central Park Jogger Story, is being published by Temple University Press.

Preeti Chauhan is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at John Jay College. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Virginia and her BA and BS from University of Florida. Before joining the faculty at John Jay, she completed a predoctoral clinical internship at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Chauhan’s research interests focuses broadly on the intersection of neighborhood and individual level risk factors for antisocial behavior, psychopathology, and victimization, with an emphasis on understanding their contribution to racial disparities.

Lila Kazemian is a graduate of Université de Montréal in Canada, and she earned the Ph.D. in criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge in England. She joined the sociology faculty of John Jay College in 2006 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK). Her research interests include life-course and criminal career research, desistance from crime, offender reentry, and comparative criminology.

Michael Maxfield is Professor of Criminal Justice at John Jay College.  He is the author of numerous articles and books on a variety of topics — victimization, policing, homicide, community corrections, auto theft, and long-term consequences of child abuse and neglect.  He is the coauthor (with Earl Babbie) of the textbook, Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology, now in its sixth edition, and currently serves as the editor of the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.  Formerly a professor at Rutgers University, Professor Maxfield received his Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.

Jeff Mellow is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Acting Deputy Executive Officer of the Criminal Justice Ph.D. program. He is a project team member of the National Institute of Corrections’ Transition from Jail to the Community Project and site director in Manhattan for the Office of National Drug Council Policy’s Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program. His research focuses on improving public safety and public health through successful prisoner reentry and he has conducted studies on corrections, reentry, and correctional health care programs.

Hung-En Sung is a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College. His work includes studies of the diversion and treatment of chronic offenders with co-occurring disorders and the therapeutic mechanisms of faith-based recovery interventions. Professor Sung is also examining the impact of morbidity and healthcare needs on criminal recidivism among offenders under institutional or community supervision. He has published extensively and been invited to share his work in Asia, Latin America, and the United Nations. In 2010, the National Institute of Justice awarded him the W.E.B Du Bois Fellowship to research the public safety consequences of the legal exclusion of undocumented migrants.