Directors

Director

Professor David Brotherton

David Brotherton gained his PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara while teaching public high school in San Francisco. In 1994, Dr. Brotherton came to John Jay College of Criminal Justice where he continued his research and teaching on youth resistance, marginalization, and deportation co-founding the Street Organization Project in 1997. He has received numerous research grants from both private and public agencies and has published widely in journals, books, newspapers and magazines. In 2003 and 2004 Dr. Brotherton co-organized the first academic conferences on deportation in the Caribbean and the United States respectively. He received the Praxis award for contributions to social justice from the Critical Criminology Section of the American Society of Criminology in 2015, named Critical Criminologist of the Year in 2011 and won the Choices award for "Keeping Out the Other" in 2008. He has also been nominated for the 2011 George Orwell Prize in England and the C.Wright Mills Award in the United States. Among his recent books are: Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment: Detention, Deportation and Border Control with Phil Kretsedemas (New York: Columbia 2017); Las Pandillas Como Movimiento Social with Luis Barrios (University of Central America Press 2016); Street Gangs: A Critical Appraisal (Routledge 2015); Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile, with Luis Barrios (Columbia 2011); Keeping Out The Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Control, edited with P. Kretsedemas (Columbia 2009); and  The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang, with Luis Barrios (Columbia 2004).

Co-Director

Professor Jayne Mooney

Jayne Mooney is Professor of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is on the doctoral faculties of women’s studies and sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC. She is also Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Jayne has extensive research experience and has published thirty papers in books and peer-reviewed journals, and numerous research monographs and reports. She has recently completed The Theoretical Foundations of Criminology: Place, Time and Context for Routledge, which presents the core theories of criminology and the sociology of deviance as historical and cultural products and theorists as producers of culture, writing in particular historical moments. Jayne is also the author of Gender, Violence and the Social order (Palgrave/ Macmillan) and co-author of Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology (Routledge). She is vice-chair of the Critical Criminology and Social Justice Division of the American Society of Criminology and is (with Albert de la Tierra) the Division’s official archivist. Previously she was European book review editor for the journal Critical Criminology and is a board member of the British Journal of Criminology. Jayne is Senior Editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, jointly responsible (with David Brotherton) for the Critical Criminology section.