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University at Albany, SUNY The State University of New York at Albany, commonly referred to as the University at Albany, UAlbany or SUNY Albany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Rensselaer, and Guilderland, New York. Founded in 1844, it is one ...

School of Criminal Justice (SCJ) is a school of the university at Albany, SUNY, offering both undergraduate and graduate programs in

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. It was established in 1968, as a result of the desire of then-

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governor

Nelson Rockefeller Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979), sometimes referred to by his nickname Rocky, was an American businessman and politician who served as the 41st vice president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. A member of t ...

to create a research and education program centered around the study of crime. It offered the first criminal justice doctoral program in the

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. In 2006, this program was ranked the 2nd best

criminology Criminology (from Latin , "accusation", and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'' meaning: "word, reason") is the study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and so ...

doctoral program in the country by '' U.S. News & World Report''. The current dean is William Alex Pridemore, who also received his Ph.D. from the School in 2000.

Location

The SCJ is located in Draper Hall on the university at Albany's Downtown campus.

Former deans

Former deans of the SCJ are: *Richard Myren (1968–76) *Vincent I. O'Leary (1976–77) *

Donald J. Newman Donald Joseph (D. J.) Newman (July 27, 1930 – March 28, 2007) was an American mathematician. He gave simple proofs of the prime number theorem and the Hardy-Ramanujan partition formula. He excelled on multiple occasions at the annual Putnam com ...

(1977–83) *

Terence Thornberry Terence Patrick Thornberry is an American criminologist who has been a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland since 2012. Before he joined the faculty of the Universit ...

(1984–88) *David E. Duffee (1988–95) *David Bayley (1995–99) *Dennis P. Rosenbaum (1999-2000) *Julie Horney (2002–09) *

Alan Lizotte Alan Jeffrey Lizotte is an American criminologist and Distinguished Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany. Early life and education Lizotte grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado, where he later recalled almost eve ...

(2010–15)

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* University at Albany, SUNY Educational institutions established in 1968 Criminology research institutes 1968 establishments in New York (state) Graduate schools in the United States University subdivisions in New York (state) {{Criminology-stub