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 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. He was 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 is 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 Deputy Director of the Social Change and Transgressive Studies Project and Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She is on the doctoral faculties of women’s studies and sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY, NYC. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, and a Board Member of the Solroutes Project at the University of Genoa.  Jayne has extensive research experience and has published over thirty papers in books, peer-reviewed journals, and numerous research monographs and reports. She is the author of The Theoretical Foundations of Criminology: Place, Time and Context  (Routledge, 2nd edition is in progress), 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, Gender, Violence and the Social Order (Palgrave/ Macmillan), and co-author, with Keith Hayward and Shadd Maruna, of Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology (Routledge). Jayne is completing the co-authored Drilling Down the Patriarchy: Resource Extraction and Violence Against Women and the sole-authored The Road to Rikers: A Social History of the Other New York City for Temple University Press. She was the 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. Jayne is currently co-editor in chief of Critical Criminology: An International Journal, a Board Member of the British Journal of Criminology, and Senior Editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, responsible for the Critical Criminology section.  In 2021, she received the Life-Time Achievement Award from the Critical Criminology and Social Justice Division of the American Society of Criminology, and in 2023, the Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice from the Division of Feminist Criminology.