Criminal Justice Faculty
Metropolitan College's distinguished faculty comprises an esteemed group of academic and real-world experts. These talented educators excel in their chosen fields and are eager to share their expertise in a student-focused setting. Metropolitan College's faculty understands first-hand the importance of convenient, flexible, and challenging educational opportunities.Read below for more information about our faculty.
Faculty
Robert Cadigan
Associate Professor of Applied Social Sciences, Director of Prison Education Program BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; MA, PhD, Boston University.
Dr. Cadigan teaches courses in criminology; rehabilitation and reintegration; freedom; business and the social environment; and a seminar on freedom, technology, environment, and society. He is a published expert in technological and social issues regarding emergency medical care, as well as prison education programs. Cadigan has also conducted research and served as consultant for several public health and intervention organizations.
Francis J. Carney, Jr.
Lecturer, Applied Social Sciences BA, Boston College; MA, Tufts University; PhD, Tufts University.
Dr. Carney has been actively involved in the criminal justice system of Massachusetts for over thirty-five years. Currently the executive director of the Massachusetts Sentencing Commission, Carney's former positions include director of planning and research for the Massachusetts Department of Correction and executive director of the Massachusetts Criminal History Systems Board. Carney has more than thirty years of teaching experience, including posts at the Boston University School of Social Work and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He teaches courses in subjects such as corrections and youth crime problems.
Kyung-shick Choi
Lecturer, Criminal Justice BS, Northeastern University; MS, Boston University; PhD, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Choi is an Assistant Professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Bridgewater State College. He teaches computer crime, white-collar crime, criminal justice research methods, and statistics courses. Dr. Choi has taught statistics and other mathematics courses in Boston University's Prison Education Program and the Master's in Criminal Justice online program. While pursuing his PhD, he was also a research consultant at the Applied Research Lab (ARL) where he refined his research, statistical, and data management skills, and gained interdisciplinary methodological perspectives. Dr. Choi's primary research interest is cyber-crime, with a broad focus on computer crime issues, causation, and motivation of cyber-criminals. Dr. Choi facilitates the UN Virtual Forum against Cybercrime as a lecturer. His latest publication, in International Journal of Cyber Criminology, is titled Computer Crime Victimization and Integrated Theory: An Empirical Assessment. Dr. Choi is currently writing a comprehensive textbook on cyber crimes and conducting related research for that project.
Shea W. Cronin
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice
BS, Northeastern University; PhD, American University.
Dr. Cronin recently received his PhD in Justice, Law, and Society from American University, School of Public Affairs. His dissertation research examines political explanations of neighborhood-level arrest rates in an urban police agency. Cronin's research interests include the administration of criminal justice, organizational behavior, policing, and democratic accountability. His research has been published in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and other academic journals. He teaches courses in criminology, criminal justice, policing, and statistics. Before his appointment at Boston University, Cronin taught at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and several other schools.
Daniel P. LeClair
Professor and Chair of Applied Social Sciences
BA, University of Rhode Island; MA, Clark University; PhD, Tulane University.
Dr. LeClair oversees Department of Applied Social Sciences programs in urban affairs, city planning, criminal justice, applied sociology, applied psychology, and prison education. He also directs the online criminal justice program. Previously, LeClair served as director of research at the Massachusetts Department of Correction, and he is currently involved in two research projects addressing addiction recovery and prison reform. LeClair lectures internationally on many topics, including online education, criminal justice, recidivism, rehabilitation, and substance abuse. He teaches victimology, white-collar crime, juvenile delinquency, research methods, and special topics in urban history and development.
Mary Ellen Mastrorilli
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Associate Chair of Applied Sciences
BA, University of Massachusetts, Boston; MPA, Suffolk University; PhD, Northeastern University.
Dr. Mastrorilli's research interests focus on female offenders, community corrections, and law and society. She holds over twenty-four years of correctional experience in positions ranging from correction officer to prison administrator. She is the recipient of the Correctional Association of Massachusetts' Professional Excellence Award, as well as the Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award given by the National Center for Women and Policing. Dr. Mastrorilli teaches courses in criminal justice and sociology.
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