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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
“The criminal justice program offers so many interesting courses and subjects. In my first year, I did not know exactly what career I wanted to pursue. However, after taking various classes from law and psychology to sociology and more, and having open and intellectual conversations with my professors, I was able to figure out what I wanted. I have grown to love detective work, working to find justice for those who need it. Additionally, the Cold Case Analysis Center is such a great experience to learn from and prepare for working in the criminal justice world.”
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LOCATION: Saint Rose’s location in the heart of the state capital lends itself to ample internship opportunities at employers like the New York State Assembly, local law enforcement agencies, nonprofits, and the FBI. CAMPUS: You don’t have to leave campus to gain hands-on experience. Our Cold Case Analysis center allows qualified students to work on real cases with local law enforcement agencies. Interested in the courtroom? Our mock trial courtroom and teams provide training for the rigors of law school and beyond.
RESEARCH: Want to dig deeper into an interesting topic or theme? Saint Rose encourages undergraduates to participate in research, leading to greater exposure among peers and professionals.
PREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE FUTURE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: “I incorporate issues in law enforcement such as technology advancements, training, shifting/changing societal norms, and crime trends. We also discuss the detrimental impacts from those in law enforcement who violate rights, cut corners, and become jaded over time, and how it adversely affects the criminal justice system and creates distrust between communities and law enforcement. With this topic, I refer to my experience as an internal affairs captain and the role I played in weeding out those who
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including: Policing in a Free Society; Criminal Profiling; Juvenile Justice; Prosecuting Crime; Sex Crimes and Paraphilia; Serial Crime; Scientific and Expert Opinion Evidence; and Drugs, Crime, and Criminal Justice — to name a few.
MITCHELL PAUROWSKI, adjunct faculty member and detective at the NYS Office of the Attorney General.
EXPERIENCE: You might opt for the Law Abroad program, which most recently took students to London, England. You could also participate in the “Jack the Ripper” studyabroad program, and delve into this case in detail in the context of Victorian England.
ACADEMICS: We take an interdisciplinary approach to our program, so you understand the biology, economics, political science, philosophy, history, psychology, and sociology behind why people commit crimes and how society responds.
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CROSS EXAMINE OUR PRE-LAW PROGRAM PERSONALIZE YOUR DEGREE Since the nation’s law schools do not recommend any particular major as the single best preparation for law school, you can major in any of the following outstanding programs while receiving dual advisement from expert faculty members and from our pre-law advisor: • Communications • Criminal justice, behavior, and law • English • History and political science • Interdisciplinary studies • Psychology JOIN A NETWORK Meet other pre-law students by participating in a pre-law colloquium, joining our mock trial teams, and becoming a member of Phi Alpha Delta pre-law organization and honor society. All of these opportunities prepare you for law school and exciting career opportunities. FAST TRACK YOUR EDUCATION Looking to get a jump-start on your JD? We offer a 3+3 law program in partnership with three law schools — Albany Law School, Pace University School of Law, and Western New England School of Law — allowing you to complete your degree in six years instead of the usual seven.
THE HONORABLE LORETTA PRESKA ’70 is the College’s Jurist-in-Residence, providing a unique mentorship opportunity for prelaw students. Here are five things to know about her: • The high-ranking United States federal judge earned a BA in Chemistry from Saint Rose, an LLM from New York University School of Law, and a JD from Fordham University School of Law. • Preska was appointed to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 and served as its Chief Judge from 2009 to 2016. • She sentenced Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse to 33 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to hijacking an American cargo ship and kidnapping its captain (the plot for the movie “Captain Phillips”). • The Saint Rose Mock Trial Teams can practice in their own Mock Trial courtroom thanks to the generous donations of Preska and her husband Thomas J. Kavaler, Esq. • Recently, Preska presided over a hearing involving Ghislaine Maxwell, the accused “procurer” for the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Find out what our criminal justice/ pre-law alumni are up to
“Dr. Tina Lane helped build and ignite my passion for criminal justice reform, and I have found my place of impact within the New York City public school system. This is all due to her support and engaging criminal justice classes. Without this, I am not sure I would have taken the path I did. I am grateful as I found a fulfilling career and a lifetime vocation.”
“My experience on the Saint Rose Mock Trial Team helped me immensely in law school and in my career. It has helped me shape who I am.” MARIA HENAIN ’18 JD candidate, Emory University School of Law Legal extern, DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office, DeKalb County, Georgia
“My time at Saint Rose as a criminal justice student was a tremendous one. The dedicated faculty really do a terrific job at showing all avenues the department has to offer and the many different career fields that a criminal justice major can bring. My time at Saint Rose has definitely helped me in my current career, working as a Boston Police Officer.”
ELIZABETH TREMBLAY ’11, LMHC
LIAM GRADY ’19
MA, John Jay College
Probationary police officer, Boston Police Department, Boston, Massachusetts
Assistant vice president, The New York Foundling, New York City metro area
“My Saint Rose experience gave me the confidence and ability to succeed in law school and as a lawyer. I learned case law and developed critical thinking skills, and participated in the Mock Trial team — which made me comfortable with public speaking and thinking quickly on my feet, gave me a taste of what it’s like to be a lawyer, and has continued to open doors for me in the law community.” LAUREN MODZELEWSKI ’15 JD, University of South Carolina Upstate Clerk to The Hon. Eugene C. Griffith, Jr., Eighth Circuit of South Carolina
“Once I got to Saint Rose, I had a different attitude. I wanted to own what I did and share what I learned in the military. When I got accepted into the FBI, everything paid off. I got my master’s and my dream job.” VINCE SOLDANI ’14, G’16 Accounting analyst, Criminal Justice Information Services, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Clarksburg, West Virginia
“The Saint Rose criminal justice program helped me focus on my interest in criminal law and prosecution. Because of the opportunities, such as the Mock Trial program and taking classes with professors in the field, I felt confident in pursuing law school and my now career as a prosecutor.” MARISSA (SCHATZEL) OLSEN ’14 JD, Albany Law School Assistant district attorney, Albany County District Attorney, Albany, New York
“At Saint Rose, I gained excellent communication skills, which helps me present my case in court to the district attorneys. I also learned to talk to people with compassion, which really helps in my work now.” BRIAN XAVIER WILLIS ’15 Police officer, Brookhaven Police Department, Brookhaven, Georgia
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Tina Lane: Q&A Before becoming a criminal justice professor, what was your experience in the field? I have a variety of experience with interning in an acute and chronic mental illness ward, juvenile detention centers, and NYS Youth Justice Program, and working for Alberta Health Canada, focusing on resilience/ adversity. Despite these experiences, my true interest was teaching and inspiring students to learn. There is nothing more rewarding than having students believe in themselves. What makes our criminal justice program stand out from others? The field of criminal justice is a multidisciplinary profession. People from many professions come together to work on the response to crime and its victims. Not only does our program present the opportunity to study responses to crime, but we also examine criminal/deviant behavior and why people abstain from crime. Using a multidisciplinary approach, students realize that crime is not just an enforcement problem. The best way for a student to learn and retain information is to apply concepts to real-life events. Since criminal justice is always at the forefront of the media and a great concern to the public, we provide ways for students to understand the world around them. We also encourage internships so that students learn first-hand what certain careers entail. How does the Cold Case Analysis Center contribute to a student’s education? How does it contribute to the broader community? The Uniform Crime Report estimates that our nation currently has 250,000 unsolved murders, a number that increases by about 6,000 each year. Unsolved cases mean mounting caseloads, which drain resources and result in higher costs for agencies with limited budgets. As the number of unsolved cases mount, they tend to take a back seat to new cases that may have a higher likelihood of being solved; meanwhile, task forces and investigators come and go. In response to this problem, some agencies have formed their own cold case units, however, not all agencies have the resources to do this.
Addressing this mounting problem in the criminal justice system, Saint Rose developed the Cold Case Analysis Center (CCAC). The CCAC provides training and experience to students in unsolved case investigation and analysis while forming relationships with community agencies and contributing resources to local law enforcement. The CCAC is built upon other successful partnerships with victims’ families, community agencies, and law enforcement to tackle these unsolved crimes and missing person cases. The CCAC offers cold case assistance to law enforcement through the following services, including, but not limited to: research requests, case organization/ reorganization for maximum usage, promoting media coverage of cases to revive community assistance, and generating funds to advance investigations. What type of exposure have your students had by participating in the CCAC? The interns from CCAC have organized case material and researched cases to be in podcasts, such as WGY and iHeartRadio’s Upstate Unsolved and News Channel 13’s Crime Academy. With these partnerships, we can restimulate public interest and encourage tips to be brought forward. When students graduate and complete their internship at CCAC, what do they go on to do in their careers? Most of our CCAC students continue on to graduate school, counseling, social work, or policing. Furthermore, our interns have reported how being part of the CCAC impressed people during job interviews. How is Saint Rose preparing students for the future of our criminal justice system? By having our students understand crime with a multidisciplinary perspective, it helps the student develop many ways to approach a problem. With this perspective, the student realizes how crime involves many professions (ranging from human services to enforcement) and can select the career that suits them the best.
COLD CASE ANALYSIS CENTER The only center of its kind in New York State and one of six nationally, our Cold Case Analysis Center (CCAC) allows selected students from our degree programs in criminal justice, behavior, and law; forensic science; and forensic psychology to work on true cold cases, addressing a mounting problem in the criminal justice system. All of this is done under the guidance of our expert faculty and in partnership with local law enforcement agencies.
The National Missing and Unidentified Person System estimates that an average of 2,000 missing person cases
go unsolved each year. According to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), a total of 2,951 active missing person cases remained open in New York State at the end of 2013.
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BUILD YOUR CASE FOR SUCCESS INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: Our location in New York State’s capital is a playground for students who want to explore careers in government, law enforcement, nonprofit work, and more. • Albany County Sheriff’s Department
• New York State Office of Forensic Services
• Albany Police Department
• New York State Office of the Inspector General
• Albany Department of Probation • Albany County Crime Victim and Sexual Violence Center
• New York State Office of Mental Health • New York State Troopers
• Citizen’s Police Academy
• Office of Court Administration
• Lasalle School
• St. Anne Institute
• New York State Assembly
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
• U.S. Secret Service
• New York State Division of Criminal Justice
NATIONAL COLLEGIATE MOCK TRIAL TEAM The Saint Rose Mock Trial Team prepares for The American Mock Trial Association’s (AMTA) Regional and National Tournaments by learning the intricacies of the case assigned, studying court procedures and the rules of evidence, and looking and acting the part of whomever they might play in the mock trials. The program is open to students of all majors and encouraged for those planning to obtain a Juris Doctor degree.
“ All of our captains, from all of our teams, have gone on to law school.” –A LFRED CHAPLEAU, Saint Rose associate professor of criminal justice, behavior, and law THE MOCK TRIAL COURTROOM The teams practice in the College’s Mock Trial courtroom named after Hon. Loretta A. Preska ’70, United States District Court Judge, an alumna of Saint Rose, and benefactor of the team. The courtroom was designed to simulate a real-life courtroom — equipped with everything but a jury. WHY MOCK TRIAL? Mock Trial prepares students for beyond graduation, including the rigors of law school if that’s the path they choose. Regardless of their chosen field, the confidence and presentation skills gained through Mock Trial stay with our graduates for life. In addition to practicing law, students graduating from the program go on to varying professions, such as mental health counseling, engineering, and chemistry.
FEATURED FACULTY
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Al Chapleau HIS ROLE: Associate professor of criminal justice and law; study law abroad program advisor; JD, Albany Law School JOINED SAINT ROSE FACULTY: 2011 TEACHES: Introduction to criminal justice, court systems, American jurisprudence constitutional law, and criminal procedure EXPERIENCE: Has served as Schenectady County chief assistant district attorney, New York State assistant attorney general, law clerk to Fulton County county and family courts, and in Rensselaer County family court CURRENT PROJECT: Consultant to the New York State Office of Court Administration Office of Justice Court Support. Assists in the development and implementation of mandated judicial training for town and village justices and court clerks THE WORK: The hundreds of town and village courts are the backbone of the New York’s court system. They handle hundreds of thousands cases each year. But the judges who preside are not required to be lawyers. In fact, most are not.
Chapleau, working with the staff of the state’s Office of Justice Court Support, prepares newly elected town and village judges and their court clerks for their new roles as a part of the state’s judiciary. He approaches the job by asking himself, “How would I feel if someone I knew had to appear before the judges and clerks I train? I’d want them to be before a judge and a clerk who was knowledgeable, judicious, and fair.” The judges, who generally serve part time, have backgrounds as business persons, farmers, teachers, and former members of law enforcement. They soon learn that the cases they will handle go well beyond barking dogs and traffic tickets. “The judges’ initial training is centered on getting them ready for what they will be expected to handle the first day in the job, the major areas of responsibility, the ethical considerations, the technical aspects, the record keeping,” Chapleau said. He and his colleagues also oversee the annual continuing education of judges and clerks.
They select topics that keep these local officials current in the law and prepared for the daily challenges they are likely to face. “I have spent years in the court system and as a practicing trial lawyer, and now as a professor, teaching about the law and the courts. But in the first 10 minutes of a training lecture with the judges or the clerks someone raises her hand with a question about something that happened that I’ve never seen in court. This is one of the things that make my association with the judges and clerks so challenging and rewarding.” IMPACT ON STUDENTS: (Training judges and clerks) makes me a better college professor because I get to bring back my experiences with the judges and clerks to the classroom at Saint Rose. The judges keep coming up with scenarios I can share in the college classroom.
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