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The '''[[University at Albany, SUNY]]''' School of Criminal Justice (SCJ) is a school of the University at Albany, SUNY, offering both undergraduate and graduate programs in [[criminal justice]]. It was established in 1968, as a result of the desire of then-[[New York (state)|New York]] governor [[Nelson Rockefeller]] to create a research and education program centered around the study of crime.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.albany.edu/scj/files/Graduate_Brochure.pdf |title=Graduate Study |website=University at Albany, SUNY |page=2}}</ref> It offered the first criminal justice doctoral program in the [[United States]]. In 2006, this program was ranked the 2nd best [[criminology]] doctoral program in the country by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''.<ref name=decades>{{Cite web |url=https://www.albany.edu/news/campus_news_5353.php |title=School of Criminal Justice: Four Decades of Academic Excellence  |website=University at Albany-SUNY |language=en |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref> The current dean is [[William Pridemore]], who also received his Ph.D. from the School in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.albany.edu/scj/77604.php |title=Dean's Message  |website=University at Albany-SUNY |language=en |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref>
==Location==
The SCJ is located in Draper Hall on the University at Albany's Downtown campus.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.albany.edu/scj/about.php |title=About the School of Criminal Justice  |website=University at Albany-SUNY |language=en |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref>
==Former deans==
Former deans of the SCJ are:
*Richard Myren (1968–76)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://meg.library.albany.edu:8080/archive/view?docId=ua640.xml |title=School of Criminal Justice Records}}</ref>
*Vincent I. O'Leary (1976–77)
*[[Donald J. Newman (criminologist)|Donald J. Newman]] (1977–83)<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/31/obituaries/donald-j-newman-criminologist-and-ex-suny-dean-dies-at-65.html |title=Donald J. Newman, Criminologist And Ex-SUNY Dean, Dies at 65 |last=Fowler |first=Glenn |date=1990 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2018-01-27 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[Terence Thornberry]] (1984–88)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ccjs.umd.edu/sites/ccjs.umd.edu/files/cv/Terence%20Thornberry%20CV%20Feb%202014.pdf |title=Terence Thornberry CV|page=1}}</ref>
*David E. Duffee (1988–95)
*David Bayley (1995–99)<ref name=decades/>
*Dennis P. Rosenbaum (1999-2000)
*Julie Horney (2002–09)
*[[Alan Lizotte]] (2010–15)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.albany.edu/news/82547.php |title=A Gift for Preeminence  |date=2017-10-23 |website=University at Albany-SUNY |language=en |access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|https://www.albany.edu/scj/}}
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